It's in Janet Allen's book word words words - don't recall the name. there are some variatins as well.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at  7:15 AM, Carol Carlson 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] <mailto:[email protected]>   <mailto:[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.
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:17:00
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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/ <http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/>   <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
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