Thanks...Are inquiry circles like literature circles only for content
area reading?
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I don't know how much reading on inquiry circles, but that should be
helpful.
Jerry Harste and also the work by Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:56:23
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Sally,
I've been doing this for many years, and YES it is fun and engaging,
but I
always struggle with coming up with the overarching theme! I'm trying
to help
our third grade teacher, so if I can't understand it, I know I can't
help her!
Joy/NC/4 How children learn is as important as what they learn:
process and
content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
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se new
and exciting?
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Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 9:10 PM
Joy,
So just bouncing off of academic vocab and RTI and on and on, thematic
teaching is a big answer in my view. When we teach thematically, we can
involve kids in inquiry at many different levels of reading and writing
and
research and modes of communication. This allows us to differentiate
while
they have a common overarching theme - thus ALL can contribute in
authentic
ways. And vocabulary is going to be benefited in huge ways....because
the
words are all connected and thus easier to learn because they are
meaning
based. And they are used over and over throughout the reading and
writing
and so on.
So thematic teaching is a big overarching picture that often never gets
mentioned in all this focus on different aspects of literacy!!! AND
THANK
YOU FOR BRING US BACK TO THIS IMPORTANT FOUNDATION FOR LEARNING.
I teach in an American Indian school as I've mentioned. This fall the
whole
school is focusing on oceans initially. So I've started playing with
all
the ideas. My social studies focus is communities...and I'm thinking
that
connects with the ocean as an interconnected community of living things.
I'm also thinking of oceans being interconnected to planet earth so
taking
care of the ocean matters. Native American conn
ections - the emphasis
"we
are all connected." and I can use a number of traditional American
Indian
stories centered on the sea. I found a book by the son of a friend
"All the
Way to the Ocean" connected to Save our Seas Foundation with tons of
activities and links and resources and that definitely brings activism
to
the front. And then the issue of salmon and dams and use of water are
critical issues to Native Americans in California (and further
north)right
now. In fact, the dams are coming down as a result of Native American
activism. And on and on and on and so exciting.
And I can teach differences between fiction and non fiction and bring us
back to community and still focus on interconnections by using Swimmy
and
Rainbow Fish and use those to be teaching some reading....in addition
to all
our non fiction. Even thinking about a contrast between NEMO AND A NEW
MOVIE COMING TURTLE: can't quite rmemeber the title but it's non
fiction
and will be out this year.
EGAD THIS IS ALL SO MUCH FUN. Now I will need to start pinning this
down
to the actual days and shape of the unit for my second and third
graders.
But just think.....this is so ideal for RTI and differentiation and
building
vocabulary and teaching all the language arts strategies and skills as
well as social studies and science.
This is why we need to go back to thematic tea
ching and many of the
approaches so advocated in whole language. We will not neglect the
skills.
We can of course do phonics and words families and fluency. But our
foundation is a meaning-centered inquiry into something that matters!
Sorry I am just flat out getting so excited to be back to an elementary
classroom in a place that values meaning-centered learning.
Good luck Joy. I know you will do the same. Of course I thought at
first
that oceans was just a topic. But when I then crank it up to "we are
all
connected" the universe is possible..
Sally
On 6/18/09 4:52 PM, "Joy" <[email protected]> wrote:
I still need help coming up with themes for my units. Don't know why,
but I
guess I can't see the big picture. Do you have any suggestions as to
how to
develop an overarching theme?
Joy/NC/4 How children learn is as important as what they learn:
process
and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy
-anything else
new and exciting?
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:44 AM
Sounds good. So academic vocabulary, RTI, anything else new and
exciting? I also like the te
xtmapping but I learned about that two
years ago on this LISTSERV. I'm a little bored:)
If there are any teachers out there...What do you NEED in terms of
issues in your classroom?
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I recommend Bring Words to Life by Isabel Beck over Marzano's. Her
book
not
only gives the research but it provides things that you can use in
your
classroom immediately.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
This is unbelievably helpful!!!!
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to
your
grandmother.
-Albert Einstein
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Robert Marzano is wonderful for academic vocabulary. As a literacy
coach I
did district wide staff development (3, 3 hour sessions) using his
20Building
Academic Background Knowledge work. He did some work in conjunction
with
Stanford University and a brain researcher. He has DVDs, one that
explains
the research and a rep from Stanford (can not remember the name and
it is
probably some big shot) and the brain guy both speak on it. It gives
the
WHY we should teach academic vocab. There is also another DVD that
has the
6 step process for teaching vocabulary.
There is a book too -paperback 8 1/2 x 11. I believe the DVDs are
quite
pricey -they come together. They are published by ASDC (Association
for
Supervision and Curriculum Development).
Jan
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to
your
grandmother.
-Albert Einstein
On 6/17/09 4:22 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
Marzano discusses this in? great detail
Kristine
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Academic vocabulary. Interesting!!!! Is there an author who I can
read up on??
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Jennifer?
In a message dated 6/16/2009 7:03:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,?
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Can anyone think of the most recent trends and key issues in
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