Patty, I think it sounds like you are doing a fine job. When I worked with first grade the identified kids actually saw me three times. First, I worked right in the classroom and planned with the teacher. I worked with all the kids during this time. Our activities varied during this time. Usually we had a theme and we often rotated mixed ability groups doing language and writing activities. We also did guided reading ability groups during this time. . Besides that I pulled out a few students (usually 5)) and worked with what was called Early Intervention Reading which was based on principles of Marie Clay. This program was later sold to a publisher so I don't know what it is called now. We did Making Words, scrambled sentences of the book we were reading, and work with word families with an idea I got from Carol Sanchez once at a convention, and writing our own small books by following the pattern of the book we were writing. My aide and I also went back to the classroom at a later time each day and pulled students out into the hall for a couple minutes to reread our weekly book to us for repeated readings. That meant they read the book to someone at least five times, then we sent the book home for the weekend to be read at home. Later these books were kept in a special box in the room so students could revisit them. Of course this rereading was only done with our very struggling readers. This seemed to work very well. Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School "What we are being asked to teach is more than any of us can do alone." Lucy Calkins
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Fri 5/1/2009 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 33, Issue 1 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. new draft, unrolling the book (Dave Middlebrook) 2. Reading Specialists in First Grade (Patty Cook) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:40:05 -0400 From: "Dave Middlebrook" <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] new draft, unrolling the book To: "Mosaic Listserv" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <cff8a8c626ee4cc8b9aecff7c9993...@desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Hello All, I have just posted a new draft of my book at www.textmapping.org/unrollingTheBook.html Under the book link is a link to a short, anonymous survey. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your interest! Dave Middlebrook The Textmapping Project A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction. www.textmapping.org | Please share this site with your colleagues! USA: (609) 771-1781 [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 07:59:10 -0400 From: "Patty Cook" <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Reading Specialists in First Grade To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <bd48d2aff47b413bb5c4c34ec6191...@d1bns171> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hello, I'm a reading specialist who works with K-2. I'm examining my practice and wondering what others do with first grade? How do you service first-graders? Do you do guided reading with them? Or does the classroom teacher handle all the guided reading groups within the context of the classroom curriculum? Do you do more intervention? I almost feel that by doing what I'm doing (pull out small groups - guided reading, word wall, phonics, and dictation) I'm trying to provide a balanced literacy experience that maybe should be offered in the classroom (but isn't always) and maybe I should be providing strictly intervention. Help!!!! What do you do? Thanks, Patty ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 33, Issue 1 ************************************* _______________________________________________ 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.
