Is it text based context or decontextualised? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ljackson Sent: 18 September 2008 14:33 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Beck Book
Robust Vocabulary is an excellent book on building vocabualry. Lori On 9/18/08 6:17 AM, "Street, Nigel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is it? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jennifer > Olimpieri > Sent: 18 September 2008 13:15 > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Houghton Mifflin > > A professor in my class just mentioned Isabelle Beck's Robust Vocab. > What is your opinion and experience with it? > Jen > > --- On Wed, 9/17/08, Mary Manges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Mary Manges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Houghton Mifflin > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension > Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 6:59 PM > > It seems this is a new trend to sell textbooks. Our district looked at > several reading series last year before going with MacMillan, which > thankfully I don't have to use. All of the major companies used some > popular "buzz term" to sell. Scott Foresman claimed their writing > was a > "Writing Workshop". As a devoted follower of writing workshop I > wanted to > puke. It is theoretically as far from writing workshop as you can get. > Nancie Atwell would have a stroke if she saw it. Another company used > QtA > and QAR, which in my opinion were antithetical also. Another used > Isabel > Beck's Robust Vocabulary as their major selling point. > Sickening! > \ > Mary in PA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ellin Keene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:22 AM > Subject: [MOSAIC] Houghton Mifflin > > >> Greetings! >> >> I think it's extremely important to clarify what you all must already >> know. >> . . Speaking only for myself, I have never consulted with nor advised >> Houghton Mifflin or any other basal series publisher on any aspect of >> their >> programs. I have found that the traditional scope and sequence > provided >> in >> such programs is NOT conducive to in-depth study of the comprehension >> strategies and may actually serve to confuse children because the > "pacing >> guide" suggests moving to a new strategy far too soon-really before >> children >> have learned the language surrounding the strategy. It's confusing >> because >> they don't know which strategy they're learning and what language > goes >> with >> which strategy. Please feel free to share my statement with anyone > who >> may >> need clarification on this point. >> >> >> >> Very best to you all, >> >> ellin keene >> >> >> >> Dear Colleagues: >> >> I was at a presentation where a Literacy Coach made this statement " >> >> Houghton Mifflin is based on the work of Ellin Keene and Stephanie > Harvey. > >> I >> >> was so taken back that I did not respond. Several of us present did >> exchange >> >> looks of surprise. What is the collective response to this statement? >> >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> Jeanette Hayden >> >> Anchorage School District >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > -- > Any email message sent or received by the > Council may require to be disclosed by the > Council under the provisions of the Freedom > of Information (Scotland) Act 2002. > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > -- Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach & Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 57555 http:www.tcsdk12.org ph. 605.856.2211 Literacies for All Summer Institute July 17-20. 2008 Tucson, Arizona _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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