I am reading What Really Matters in Response to Intervention by Allington right now. The part that I found interesting was about fairness, "less effective teachers 'think' fair means distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of nedds and exemplary teachers "think' fair means working in ways that evens out differences between students." also he writes that Adults will not read books with less than 99% accuracy so why should kids. We have goals at my school to close the achievement gap...just like most everywhere and this really encourages me "engaged reading can overcome traditional barriers to reading achievement, including gender, parental education, and income." His research talks about how the way school is currently not set up to really meet the needs of struggling readers. I am only up to Chapter 4 and am hoping he will give some hands on ways to meet the needs of struggling students. Kay Kuenzl-Stenerson Literacy Coach Merrill Middle School 108 W. New Your Ave. Oshkosh, WI 54901 920-424-0177 ext. 132 "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." Maria Robinson
________________________________ From: mosaic-bounces+kay.kuenzl-stenerson=oshkosh.k12.wi...@literacyworkshop.org on behalf of [email protected] Sent: Thu 11/12/2009 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Mosaic Digest, Vol 39, Issue 14 Send Mosaic mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mosaic digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: rti sos for kdgn, asap:) (Kare) 2. Re: Richard Allington (EDWARD JACKSON) 3. Re: rti sos for kdgn, asap:) ([email protected]) 4. Re: RTI (Kelly Andrews-Babcock) 5. Re: rti sos for kdgn, asap:) (kelley dean) 6. Re: rti sos for kdgn, asap:) (Kare) 7. Re: philosophical wonderings (Renee) 8. Re: RtI (Hassan, Patricia A) 9. Re: RtI (Hassan, Patricia A) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:27:24 -0800 From: Kare <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] rti sos for kdgn, asap:) To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 My kindergarten ELLs love to learn with the videos from http://www.watchknow.org/ <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.watchknow.org/> If you click on the Language Arts section and then choose "Learning to Read" you will find videos to support phonemic awareness, vocabulary development, and basic reading concepts. One subcategory features videos using simple speech with text on screen. Kare On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:50 AM, kelley dean <[email protected]> wrote: > Really, I am struggling for fresh, explicit lessons for helping my ELL's > and my struggling learners. If you can help, I would appreciate it. > kjd > > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:24:18 +0000 From: EDWARD JACKSON <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Richard Allington To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 > <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org> > . > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive > <http://oasd-mail/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive> > . > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:10:05 EST From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] rti sos for kdgn, asap:) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I am a K-1, Title I reading teacher. For my K-kids that have weak phonemic awareness skills, I use Phonemic Awareness in Young Children (Marilyn Adams). The kids and I enjoy the lessons and I have found it to always work. Here are some other things I use and that my kids and I find engaging: Vocabulary and comprehension: Talkies (Lindamood Bell) Vocabulary issues are bigger than I ever imagined. Talkies involves movement and play. For phonics and sight words, I try to be as congruent as possible with the HM series their classroom teachers are using. I try to make sure at least 1/2 of every session is spent reading real books. I use a lot of things from National Geographic's series, Windows on Literacy. Awesome, real photographs of non-fiction topics. For decodable I use Wright Group Phonics books but only the ones mid-way through the series because they actually have an understandable story line and I can't stand decodable with no meaning or do-able syntax. My best training came from Donna Scanlon, formerly at SUNY Albany. She and Frank Vellutino conducted the "First Grade" studies and came up with something called the Interactive Strategies Approach. It's not available commercially. It involves flexible use of strategies and lots and lots of real reading. cathy In a message dated 11/11/2009 7:12:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Really, I am struggling for fresh, explicit lessons for helping my ELL's and my struggling learners. If you can help, I would appreciate it. kjd -- Kelley Dean _______________________________________________ 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.
