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Today's Topics: 1. Re: text structure (Andrea Pepitone) 2. Re: text structure (Andrea Pepitone) 3. Re: text structure ([email protected]) 4. Re: text structure (Delores Gibson) 5. Re: text structure ([email protected]) 6. assessment ([email protected]) 7. Light bulb and mirror resend ([email protected]) 8. Re: text structure (Lisa Szyska) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:35:39 -0700 From: "Andrea Pepitone" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Mary, I am also a second grade teacher and I was wondering what kind of graphic organizer you are using for text structure? I will soon begin a Habitat Unit and then the students will write their own bird reports. I was wondering what your anchor chart and symbols looked like? Thanks so much Andrea >>> Jane Watson <[email protected]> 03/15/09 1:26 AM >>> What is the mirror and light bulb - I must have lost that discussion! Jane On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, mary mullin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jennifer, > I love your suggestions about using the mirror for explaining description > and the light bulb for cause and effect. I also teach 2nd grade and we have > been immersed in text structures for the past 3 weeks. For each structure > I've found big books that are have each structure. AS we read and explored > more nonfiction texts with a variety of structures my class and I created > an > anchor chart with our class definition of each structure, key words and > symbol. We also created a body movement for each structure. This week > students worked in pairs and coded every 2 pages(using our symbols) of a > variety of nf books and shared out their findings. Our librarian had the > class use the smartboard to highlight key words and then code written > examples of each structure. This week each child will make their own > referral chart text structures that includes structure, definition, key > words, possible topics, symbol and graphic organizer. This chart will then > been used to help students move into researching and writing about a topic > of their choice.WHEW! I see my class working on this for another 2-3 weeks. > I've had lots of help from another 2nd grade teacher and reading teacher > from another school in my district along with the reading teacher and > librarian in my school. It's an intellectual challenge to find a way to > make text structures understandable to 2nd graders. I've really enjoyed the > digging and reading that helped me make this all work for my class. So I > was > thrilled to see your posting because your suggestion last month about using > the staircase to make biographies understandable was so helpful. I know > you'll have different ways to approach text structures. mary > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Jane A. Watson Curriculum Strategist Ruston Elementary School 200 N. Bernard St. Ruston, La 71270 FAX # - 318.255-4728 Work # - 1.318.255.4714 _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:52:39 -0700 From: "Andrea Pepitone" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >>> "Andrea Pepitone" <[email protected]> 03/15/09 9:41 AM >>> Hi Mary, I am also a second grade teacher and I was wondering what kind of graphic organizer you are using for text structure? I will soon begin a Habitat Unit and then the students will write their own bird reports. I was wondering what your anchor chart and symbols looked like? Thanks so much Andrea >>> Jane Watson <[email protected]> 03/15/09 1:26 AM >>> What is the mirror and light bulb - I must have lost that discussion! Jane On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, mary mullin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jennifer, > I love your suggestions about using the mirror for explaining description > and the light bulb for cause and effect. I also teach 2nd grade and we have > been immersed in text structures for the past 3 weeks. For each structure > I've found big books that are have each structure. AS we read and explored > more nonfiction texts with a variety of structures my class and I created > an > anchor chart with our class definition of each structure, key words and > symbol. We also created a body movement for each structure. This week > students worked in pairs and coded every 2 pages(using our symbols) of a > variety of nf books and shared out their findings. Our librarian had the > class use the smartboard to highlight key words and then code written > examples of each structure. This week each child will make their own > referral chart text structures that includes structure, definition, key > words, possible topics, symbol and graphic organizer. This chart will then > been used to help students move into researching and writing about a topic > of their choice.WHEW! I see my class working on this for another 2-3 weeks. > I've had lots of help from another 2nd grade teacher and reading teacher > from another school in my district along with the reading teacher and > librarian in my school. It's an intellectual challenge to find a way to > make text structures understandable to 2nd graders. I've really enjoyed the > digging and reading that helped me make this all work for my class. So I > was > thrilled to see your posting because your suggestion last month about using > the staircase to make biographies understandable was so helpful. I know > you'll have different ways to approach text structures. mary > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Jane A. Watson Curriculum Strategist Ruston Elementary School 200 N. Bernard St. Ruston, La 71270 FAX # - 318.255-4728 Work # - 1.318.255.4714 _______________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:08:27 +0000 (UTC) From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: [email protected] Message-ID: <1767649774.776111237136907292.javamail.r...@sz0153a.westchester.pa.mail .comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I haven't been reading messages in a while so I missed all of those items. I guess I will have to go back and search through the messages. This sounds really interesting and I am intrigued. Cindy/VA ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:35:27 -0500 From: Delores Gibson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <a49a839aca88004fb77e259edfa3677906f13...@em1.dps109.lake.k12.il.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am starting my Habitat Unit also. I would appreciate any information I can get on graphic organizers that are being used for text structure. Also what is the light bulb idea for cause and effect. Thank you. Dee -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrea Pepitone Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure >>> "Andrea Pepitone" <[email protected]> 03/15/09 9:41 AM >>> Hi Mary, I am also a second grade teacher and I was wondering what kind of graphic organizer you are using for text structure? I will soon begin a Habitat Unit and then the students will write their own bird reports. I was wondering what your anchor chart and symbols looked like? Thanks so much Andrea >>> Jane Watson <[email protected]> 03/15/09 1:26 AM >>> What is the mirror and light bulb - I must have lost that discussion! Jane On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, mary mullin <[email protected]> wrote: > Jennifer, > I love your suggestions about using the mirror for explaining description > and the light bulb for cause and effect. I also teach 2nd grade and we have > been immersed in text structures for the past 3 weeks. For each structure > I've found big books that are have each structure. AS we read and explored > more nonfiction texts with a variety of structures my class and I created > an > anchor chart with our class definition of each structure, key words and > symbol. We also created a body movement for each structure. This week > students worked in pairs and coded every 2 pages(using our symbols) of a > variety of nf books and shared out their findings. Our librarian had the > class use the smartboard to highlight key words and then code written > examples of each structure. This week each child will make their own > referral chart text structures that includes structure, definition, key > words, possible topics, symbol and graphic organizer. This chart will then > been used to help students move into researching and writing about a topic > of their choice.WHEW! I see my class working on this for another 2-3 weeks. > I've had lots of help from another 2nd grade teacher and reading teacher > from another school in my district along with the reading teacher and > librarian in my school. It's an intellectual challenge to find a way to > make text structures understandable to 2nd graders. I've really enjoyed the > digging and reading that helped me make this all work for my class. So I > was > thrilled to see your posting because your suggestion last month about using > the staircase to make biographies understandable was so helpful. I know > you'll have different ways to approach text structures. mary > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > -- Jane A. Watson Curriculum Strategist Ruston Elementary School 200 N. Bernard St. Ruston, La 71270 FAX # - 318.255-4728 Work # - 1.318.255.4714 _______________________________________________ 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. ************************************************************************ **************************** This e-mail message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Board of Education of Deerfield Public School District No. 109. It is intended only for the person(s) to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:47:24 EDT From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Lori Sure. For the dresser lessons, I used some of the Harcourt Brace Science and Social studies series...they were organized mainly main idea and detail. Capstone press had a book on each of the Seasons and they were also organized like a dresser. Wright group had a biography on Rosa Parks and also there was a biography series in Really Good Stuff that our school bought and the bio on Dr. Seuss was perfect to teach chronological/sequential (like a stair case) text structures. We are using Tomie DePaola's the Quicksand Book to model the embedded text structures of Cause and Effect and Descriptive...but this book isn't perfect for strugglers in grade two since the structures are a bit more subtle. We are reteaching this week with some articles from the Primary Comprehension toolkit. There are some great resources there ! Jennifer In a message dated 3/14/2009 3:54:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Would you be willing to share the titles of the books you used and the structures they demonstrated? Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach and Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 5755 **************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare000 00002) ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:48:43 +0000 From: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] assessment To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"<[email protected]> Message-ID: <031520091948.417.49BD5B9B00010AC0000001A122228869349B0A02D29B9B0EBF0A9B [email protected]> Tomorrow morning I am going to a meeting to help determine ways to assess the workshop model that my district will start using in the fall. I think the small assessment committee is going to determine ways to assess how much students' reading and writing is improving through the workshop AND how well teachers are using the workshop model. Can you give me ideas about what we should be looking for in the students and in the teachers? Thanks! Jan ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:51:47 EDT From: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] Light bulb and mirror resend To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Folks Here is my original post on text structure. As for organizers, I use the visuals to introduce the text structure but then I let the kids create their own graphic organizers. It helps them remember it all better! Jennifer <<Hi everyone, I have been developing some ideas for teaching non-fiction text structures that have really been helping my second graders internalize this abstract concept. Two of these I have mentioned before: On the To Understand list, Peter posted a lesson on using a dresser analogy to teach nonfiction. If you look on the To Understand archives on the readinglady.com home page under a Wow Moment...you'll find it. The idea behind the dresser is that just like you have a sock drawer and a sweatshirt drawer in your dresser...where you can open that drawer you will be easily able to find what you need. Non fiction books have drawers too... the subtitles help the reader know what he or she will find in that section. I used Peter's idea with great success. It is a great lesson. My colleague and I then branched out and used a staircase to teach the chronological/sequential text structures of biographies. As they read a simple biography of Dr. Seuss, the kids identified what the author wanted them to learn in each section...then we laid those ideas out on sentence strips on a stair case. Kids quickly realized that unlike books organized like a dresser, you can't just hop to any part of the book as easily and have it make sense...you need to know what comes before and after. After teaching those two...we gave kids a choice and they had to figure out if the books they chose to read were like a dresser or like a staircase...and they totally got it! These are kids that are all below level but are internalizing these abstract concepts. I think they are getting it because we are taking our time and teaching for depth... The concrete models help but I think the way we have asked the kids to discover for themselves how a book is like a dresser or staircase has helped too. Constructed knowledge is powerful knowledge. This week, we have started discussing descriptive text structures. I brought to school a floor length mirror and laid it on its side in the middle of the classroom rug. I asked the kids to think about how a book could be like a mirror. I divided the class in half...one on the side of the mirror, the other seeing only the back of the mirror. We began the lesson by putting objects in front of the mirror and the kids on the mirror side had to start describing the object to the kids who couldn't see the object on the other side. The key here was they had to describe what they saw in the mirror...they couldn't just start telling all they knew about it. The idea behind the mirror was to first help kids know what describing really was and THEN move it to an abstract level. They told what they saw in the mirror...and the nonfiction book was really the mirror and you as the reader can see what aspects of the object the author wants you to see! Does that make sense? Then we used Tomie DePaalo's Quicksand book to identify portions of it that were like a mirror...the parts telling you all about the features of quicksand. I wasn't sure if this mirror thing would work but I have to tell you it really did help second graders get the idea that some books use words to show you what something is like...you can get a picture of it...just like a reflection in the mirror. Tomorrow we will make our own list of what descriptive text structures are like. Later this week, we are going to do cause and effect structures.... We are thinking of using a light bulb with a pull string for an analogy for this one...but I am open to ideas! This is the first time I have really spent this much time on text structures with little people but it is paying dividends in comprehension. It seems to be helping them determine importance. I would love to explore that idea with the rest of you... Have any of you taught determining importance with text structures? How has it worked for you? Jennifer>> ____________________________________ Worried about job security? _Check out the 5 safest jobs in a reces_ (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare000 00002) **************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gal lery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare00000002) ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Lisa Szyska <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Thanks for posting all these ideas about text structure!! I have had a difficult time figuring out how to make this relevant/understandable to younger readers...your approach makes perfect sense. It really reminds me of how Tanny McGregor does this with the strategies in Comprehension Connections. Great stuff! Lisa 2/3 loop, IL --- On Sun, 3/15/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] text structure > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:47 PM > Lori > Sure. > For the dresser lessons, I used some of the Harcourt Brace > Science and > Social studies series...they were organized mainly main > idea and detail. > Capstone press had a book on each of the Seasons and they > were also > organized like a dresser. Wright group had a biography on > Rosa Parks and also there > was a biography series in Really Good Stuff that our school > bought and the > bio on Dr. Seuss was perfect to teach > chronological/sequential (like a stair > case) text structures. > We are using Tomie DePaola's the Quicksand Book to > model the embedded text > structures of Cause and Effect and Descriptive...but this > book isn't perfect > for strugglers in grade two since the structures are a bit > more subtle. We are > reteaching this week with some articles from the Primary > Comprehension > toolkit. There are some great resources there ! > Jennifer > > In a message dated 3/14/2009 3:54:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight > Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Would you be willing to share the titles of the books you > used and the > structures they demonstrated? > > > > Lori Jackson > District Literacy Coach and Mentor > Todd County School District > Box 87 > Mission SD 5755 > > > > > **************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 > safest jobs in a > recession. > (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare000 00002) > _______________________________________________ > 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. 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