Beautifully said Jan:)
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From: Jan Sanders <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] TRENDS and ISSUES In Literacy Pedagogy -anything
elsenew and exciting?
Our district looked at it as the perfect differentiated "program" (I
don't
believe writers' and readers' workshop to be programs. I think of them
as
structures). The mini lessons are whole group, but in conferring you
can
meet each child where they are and push them forward. If children need
lessons on voice, you go there. I also think of Calkins' lessons as a
guide
-a starting place. Just as in anything you do, you gear the lessons to
what
your students need. I never taught from a teacher's manual lock-step
either.
Jan
On 6/22/09 11:13 AM, "Delores Gibson" <[email protected]> wrote:
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&520grades 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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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 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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Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 8:14 AM
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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
=0
A>> born-again teachers:)
-----Original Message-----
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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