Sounds like reading workshop to me. And your description was clear.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:35:11 -0500 > Subject: [MOSAIC] Richard Allington > > He said during reading time kids need to be reading. Not doing worksheets, > not doing assignments--reading. (In books at their level that kids find > interesting and engaging) > He did say that teachers should be meeting with small groups or one-on-one > with students. I know when I was at the Reading and Writing Project's summer > institute this year one of my instructors (Kathleen Tolan) talked about the > importance of making sure our small group lessons don't take away from kids' > reading time. She suggested that after we've done our teaching, when we have > kids practice what we've taught in the small group, we have all the other > kids in the group reading while we're checking up on each individual. > I feel like I'm not describing this well. Hopefully you can all read between > the lines ("infer") and make sense even if I'm having a hard time > articulating my thoughts tonight. Anyway, I think Allington would probably > be of that mind. Definitely meet with small groups, but make sure that we > don't spend a lot of time in the group having kids just listen to us, or just > watch other kids read. I'd guess he'd say to talk briefly and get the kids > back into reading. > Natasha > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:22:09 -0800 > From: Jan Sanders <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] RTI > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Did he say what that 2 hours of reading should be? Pure reading? I > envision some to take it as lots of phonics and skills lessons. > Jan > > > On 11/10/09 12:27 PM, "Domina.Natasha" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I just heard Richard Allington speak on Saturday and he said that 2 hours of >> reading per day will mean that a struggling reader doesn't fall further >> behind. If we want them to close the gap and catch up to their peers they >> should be reading even more than that. (He was talking about RtI so maybe >> his >> new book on RtI would have more information about that.) >> Natasha >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ > 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.
