I need suggestions, we are using many comprehension strategies at our school, and that is going well. My question is teaching struggling students to read. Low SES and ESL students, great kids, but need to have more than the basic core insturction. Any suggestions on teaching specifics of reading? We do phonemic awareness, but phonics is lacking. We do fluency and comprhension with some proficiency. We need to zero in on some specifics. Thanks -------------- Original message from [email protected]: --------------
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This is just what I was looking for. > Dee in Illinois > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Storti, Donna > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:53 AM > To: [email protected]; Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies > Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Vocabulary help > > http://wvde.state.wv.us/strategybank > This is a fabulous site with not only knowledge rating scales, but all > kinds of graphic organizers > > Donna > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobbi Berglund > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 7:31 AM > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Vocabulary help > > It's called a knowledge rating. > > --- On Wed, 3/4/09, [email protected] wrote: > > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Vocabulary help > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 6:06 PM > > 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" > > > > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:17:00 > > To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email > > Group > > 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! 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If > you > have > received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and > delete > all > copies of this message. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:13:21 -0600 > From: "ginger/rob" > Subject: [MOSAIC] Stephanie Harvey workshop > To: "1 mosaic list" > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Great news for people in the Midwest!! > Stephanie Harvey is returning for her summer Reading Comprehension > Institute. > I can't say ENOUGH about what a great investment (and fun time!) this is. > If you've never spent time learning from Stephanie you should this summer! > It's not far from O'Hare airport, either! > I'll be there and I'd love to meet you guys! > Ginger Weincek > Mosaic > +++++++++++++++++++ > > "Stephanie Harvey, author of Nonfiction Matters, Strategies That Work, and > the Comprehension Toolkit invites you to spend two days at her annual > reading comprehension institute to be held this year in suburban Chicago, > Illinois. Steph was a classroom and special education teacher for 15 years > and now works as a staff developer and national literacy consultant. > > Come learn more about reading comprehension and the strategies that > proficient readers use to understand what they read. Please join Steph for > Reading Is Thinking 2009, her K-8 reading comprehension institute. > Appropriate for teachers, librarians, staff developers, literacy coaches and > administrators." > > Dates: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - Thursday, June 25, 2009 > www.regonline.com/RITChicago > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:35:17 -0500 > From: "Nancy Wittner" > Subject: [MOSAIC] Vocabulary familiarity sheet > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > It's in Janet Allen's book Word Words Words > It's called From the New to the Known. > > Students mark either > I Have never seen this word before > I have seen it but I don't know what it is > I think I know what it means > I know more than one menaing for this word > > > Thanks > Nancy > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > End of Mosaic Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4 > ************************************* _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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