It is just a metacognitive activity-something like this:
I have a clear understanding of the word and can explain it and use it.
I have some idea about the word’s meaning and I can
understand it in certain contexts
I have read or heard the word but I don’t know what it means.
I don’t remember hearing or seeing this word.
Maxine
In a message dated 3/4/2009 10:18:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
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
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