Has anyone worked with Developmental Word Study using Word Journeys by Ganske or Words There Way as the "spelling" part of literacy? Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School Are all our students exceeding at the highest level they can succeed at? If, not, we have work to do.
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Mon 2/16/2009 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 30, Issue 16 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. workshop approach (Cindy) 2. Re: workshop approach (Ginger Anderson) 3. Re: workshop approach ([email protected]) 4. Re: workshop approach (Ljackson) 5. Re: workshop approach (Waingort Jimenez, Elisa) 6. Re: workshop approach (Chris and Teresa Casart) 7. Re: workshop approach (Ljackson) 8. Re: Literature Circles (Erickson, Debra) 9. Re: workshop approach (Waingort Jimenez, Elisa) 10. Re: Debbie Miller's Teaching with Intention (wasdepartmentalization) (Waingort Jimenez, Elisa) > > > > ----- Original message ----- From: Chris and Teresa Casart <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:53 PM Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] workshop approach > I have been feeling the same way about the Word Work choices in my room. > They all want to do the same thing...write their words on small white > boards. We already study words through Sitton Spelling activities every > day, so I'm thinking of removing that choice, too. > > By the way, I teach 4th grade, and I'm not so sure about the D5 thing with > this age group, anyway. I've always had a great management plan for reading > workshop, but my principal wants our whole building to implement the D5 > during our literacy block. Thoughts???? > > Teresa > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Waingort Jimenez, Elisa" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies > Email Group" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 8:04 PM > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] workshop approach > > > I've been doing Daily 5 in my classroom since last year though I call it > Reading Workshop. I like that the kids are either reading or writing in > authentic ways and that I can manage to carry on my conferences without > interruptions, most of the time. A couple of weeks ago I pulled out the > Spelling/Work Work Daily because I wasn't happy with what I was offering the > kids as choices. I felt they weren't discovering anything worth spending > the time on it. Instead, I made it into a separate 1/2 hour time twice a > week since I've been reading The Wonder of Word Study by Lauren Berman > Lucht. The kids like being word detectives and I feel like they're > constructing ideas about spelling patterns in English. > Elisa > > > Elisa Waingort > Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual > Dalhousie Elementary > Calgary, Canada ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:57:52 -0700 From: "Waingort Jimenez, Elisa" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] workshop approach To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I think the Daily 5 can work in any grade. My first reaction, however, is what a great way way to kill a good idea: mandate that everybody does it and you're bound to have failure. I don't have time for my kids to do 5 rotations every day in English or Spanish. Last year I told the kids they had to do read to self every day during the English time. This year I haven't gone there yet but I think it's time. I don't know why I've waited so long. Also, since my students do the Daily 5 during our Spanish LA time (I call it "opciones"), I'm thinking that as long as they do read to self at least once every day, in either Spanish or English, it would be OK. I have kept the word work option during the Spanish time. I use it mostly for them to work with words for the purposes of practicing new vocabulary words. For example, if we are doing a geometry unit in math and a unit on the family in language arts, then we have a list of words we've brainstormed and learned related to each unit. Those are the words they can use for word work. They like to play hangman with those words. Elisa Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. ?Helen Keller Visit my blog, A Teacher's Ruminations, and post a message. http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/ I have been feeling the same way about the Word Work choices in my room. They all want to do the same thing...write their words on small white boards. We already study words through Sitton Spelling activities every day, so I'm thinking of removing that choice, too. By the way, I teach 4th grade, and I'm not so sure about the D5 thing with this age group, anyway. I've always had a great management plan for reading workshop, but my principal wants our whole building to implement the D5 during our literacy block. Thoughts???? Teresa _______________________________________________ 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.
