Deb, Our whole building was bought the book by our principal. Teachers have enjoyed it very much. Nancy came to our school, that was great too. It is based on the CMT (CT mastery test) strand questions, which would help you if you teach in CT. As a coach, I think it offers good ideas to scaffold teaching to answer specific open-ended questions. What ends up happening though is that teachers then are only teaching to those questions and there is so much more to reading than answering open-ended responses. I have seen this happen before and am guilty of it myself. One book become the "be all, end all" and we forget about all the other important strategies and aspects of teaching reading that are necessary for our students to become strong, life-long readers. Kelly AB
On 7/25/09 11:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: Has anyone read and used the book:? That's a Grea Answer by Nancy Boyles?? Would you recommend this purchase?? Why or why not? Thank you. Deb Holden _______________________________________________ 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.
