And remember that Fountas and PInnell have a newer book with K-8 that's VERY explicit and deliberate: Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency. They also have the K-2 and 3-8 Continuum of Literacy Learning which is wonderful!!!
Just out of curiosity here: would anyone be able to fill me in either on-list or off-list? I'm wondering what caused the school to back away from scripted to go to balanced lit? [email protected] On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Hamilton, Whitney < [email protected]> wrote: > I strongly agree that Fountas & Pinnell's Guiding Readers and Writers > Grades 3-6 is a great place to start. Over the past year I've been heavily > researching the area of reading and found F&P's book to be straight forward > and VERY helpful. It is a big book but I like that it is divided into > sections for each balanced literacy component and doesn't have to be read > from cover to cover to be prove beneficial. I would say my biggest success > has been implementing the first 20 days of reading workshop (although I > didn't use all of the lessons and modified some to suit my needs). Because > of the initial minilessons outlined in the book, my third graders cherish > their independent reading time and take it quite seriously. No one is up > roaming the room "looking for a book" or just hanging out wasting time. > > I've also used the book Strategies That Work to help me become more > familiar with the comprehension strategies and what books to use when > teaching a specific strategy. As an FYI - http://reading.ecb.org is a > great website for teachers and students to explore when teaching/learning > the comprehension strategies. > > Whitney Hamilton, Third Grade > Kit Carson Elementary > 450 Tates Creek Road > Richmond, KY 40475 > > [email protected] > 859-624-4525 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] > Sent: Mon 1/26/2009 8:11 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] professional readings > > > > > > > It is a K-5 > >> school that up till now has used a scripted basal program with a > workbook. > > > The books folks are recommending are ALL terrific.?? If people are > starting at ground zero, moving from a scripted program, I'm wondering about > many other things...basic things, like... > > do they have classroom libraries? independent reading? > > do they have "schema" for leveled text, differentiated instruction and what > a 90 minute/literacy block might look like? > > When we first started moving away from HM as a core basal, we helped folks > get going by starting with independent reading and classroom libraries.? We > worked on conferring, choice, getting kids to understand what a just right > book felt like (since everyone was always reading the same text, this was > new to them!)? For the intermediate levels, we found Fountas/Pinnell's > Guiding Readers and Writers Gr. 3-6 a great place for folks to get started.? > It models, for example, the 'first 20 days' for launching independent > reading.? It supports getting started with reading and writing workshops.? > For the little ones, we loved Debbie Miller and her videos. > Don't get me wrong - I love Harvey/Goudvis, Tony Stead and the rest of the > great comprehension strategy people.? But F & P helped lay the ground work > we built on. > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ 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.
