Text based

On 9/18/08 7:00 AM, "Street, Nigel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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Lori Jackson
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Box 87
Mission SD  57555
 
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Literacies for All Summer Institute
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