What is %age of sight words in books and what is average concepts about print score for kdgn in sept? anyone??? thx:) kelley
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Carol Carlson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, all, > > I'm wracking my brain trying to remember a pre reading and vocabulary > activity. > > The words are listed down the left side, and students indicate their > familiarity with the word. Does anyone know what this is called? > > Thanks, > Carol > > On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:35 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I read it online. No, actually I printed it out and read my paper copy. >> There was a link on a Heinemann ad to this sample chapter. >> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: "Waingort Jimenez, Elisa" <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:17:00 >> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group< >> [email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] WOW! WOW! WOW! Newkirk! >> >> >> Hi, >> I'd heard about this from another list and you can't access this online. >> Or can you? >> 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've often been accused of using too many words. Well, for once, I'm >> speechless! What an incredible evening I've had. I received the e-ad for >> Thomas Newkirk's new book, Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones >> - >> Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For from Heinemann. Gave it a >> glance >> and almost accidentally decided to print out the sample chapter. I read >> it >> tonight - OH MY GOSH, as morning show radio DJs would say! I was >> immediately transported to those first years when Donald Murray and Donald >> Graves and Thomas Newkirk and Nancie Atwell and Lucy Calkins first sprung >> into my life. >> >> This chapter, "Finding a Language for Difficulty - Silences in Our >> Teaching >> Stories," is one of the most powerful pieces of inspired writing I've read >> in years, perhaps decades. His writing takes you right into his head and >> into the "small moments" he describes. He "gets it." He doesn't teach >> what >> I do, he doesn't work with students the age of mine, his climate is far >> different than mine, his state was a different color than mine...and yet >> Thomas Newkirk can cut through all the differences and zoom into your very >> heart and soul. >> >> I can't tell you how intense the chapter is, but what I can tell you is >> that >> none of you out there would find this chapter irrelevant or unimportant. >> I >> can't help wanting to shout it from the rooftops, "He gets it. He gets >> it. >> He gets it!" I can't wait to talk about it with someone. >> >> What a night! I "heart" you, Thomas Newkirk! >> >> Bev in Nebraska >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > -- Kelley Dean _______________________________________________ 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.
