Wow this is the question of the century:) My first professor of reading
pedagogy used to say that if you were in his class to learn how to
teach reading you were in the wrong place....Because there is no one
right way to teach reading...I agree with a balanced or comprehensive
literacy approach that has phonological awareness embedded in a
literature-based,authentic approach...but it seems there is so little
time in the day that it comes down to "what are your priorities" in the
literacy classroom. So I agree with the balanced and comprehensive
approach is best. But I would still love to have a discussion about if
you had only so many hours in the day and couldn't teach a
comprehensive approach...which approach would be most important...why?
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I have been teaching art of twenty years but am almost finished with
course work
for my intervention specialist license. Within this current program a
balanced
literacy approach is stressed including both whole language and the
teaching of
isolated skills as seen in encouraging phonemic awareness. Are many
school
districts still focused on the "either or approach," as opposed to
incorporating
many approaches in hopes of reaching more students?
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From: Delores Gibson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:13:58
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
elsenew and exciting?
I teach in a white middle to upper middle class community. I think the
teachers
feel that this program was written so general so that it could fit any
school
but that it does not challenge our students. I constantly have
teaching say to
me..."How long can you teach about small moments?" They want to teach
the
students how to have a voice in their writing. They wanted more
concrete
lessons on punctuation and grammar. The 3,4&5 grades have Fletcher and
they
feel the same way. Needless to say I am the only teacher who still
believes in
whole language, who is a member of mosaic, and who is reading Tanny's
book along
with the Daily5, and the new academic vocabulary books. A few teachers
are
starting to go to workshops with me but they still have a different set
of
beliefs. I wish our school district had done more in-services because
I think
the program never had a chance.
Dee
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On Behal
f Of Jan Sanders
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 12:57 PM
To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
elsenew
and exciting?
I don't quite understand the "no meat to it" statement. When our
district
started using writers' workshop and Calkin's lessons the student writing
improved immensely. One of the huge changes we saw and loved was that
the
students really wrote from the heart and from experiences. Gone were
the
formulistic paragraphs and boring essays.
We had lots of staff development though, and each school had a literacy
coach to help them muck through it all.
Jan
On 6/22/09 10:13 AM, "Delores Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote:
I was and still am a fan of Lucy Calkins. So when my school district
decided to adopt her writing program I thought it would be great. I
guess her presentations didn't translate well into a writing program.
My colleagues hate the program and none of them use it. They feel it
is
to simple and there is no meat to it. I think that they just don't
get
her and the district didn't do a good job with helping them understand
the program. I think everyone wants a more Six Traits approach and
now
I can't get anyone to even read ANY of her books. It's nice to
connect
with fans. Thanks.
Dee
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From:
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[email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
elsenew and exciting?
Try to attend a presentation by Lucy ...listening to her tell the
students' stories in person was really moving...I was lucky enough to
attend...I think it was in early nineties ...at a Whole Language
Conference at a Florida University that also featured Yetta Goodman:)
I
swear...FL classroom teachers at that time were ruled by a unified
curriculum that required testing students after each isolated skill
learned (in reading and math)... After that conference we were like
born-again teachers:)
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From: thomas <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jun 21, 2009 9:34 pm
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
elsenew and exciting?
Lucy is one of mine too. This one more life changing than her later
books
even.
On 6/21/09 5:22 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sally, I feel the same way about Lucy Calkins' Lessons from a Child.
Taylor's
Learning Denied and Lessons from a Child are
professional-life-changing books.
You are never the same again after you've read them. Bev
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