I too would like to know why the change. We have recently moved to a
"direct instruction" program. I am not thrilled with it.
Joanne
On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Beverlee Paul wrote:
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
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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.
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