Yes, I am in Northern California.
On Mar 20, 2010, at 10:55 AM, Mary Ann Walker wrote:
Oh Renee, I'm really sorry to hear about your pink slip.
Are you in California?
Mary Ann
Cy-Fair ISD
Houston, TX
----- Original Message ----- From: "Renee" <[email protected]>
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
If I had tenure, I would do a lot of things.
Renee .... waving another pink slip in the air.....
On Mar 14, 2010, at 11:17 AM, jan sanders wrote:
Renee, if you had the tenure, you could send back an email
stating the fact about the lack of problem solving and that you
were wondering what was going to be used to fill in that void.
For anyone not familiar with Saxon -they literally tell the
student what to do. I piloted in 4th grade and the directions
would tell the student what to do -no thinking there... One day
(long division) the directions said use the LSD method on this
problem. I had to laugh! LSD!!!!!! Of course LSD was an
acronym for procedures used in the algorithm. Anyone remember
Daddy, Mother, Sister, Brother? Divide, Multiply, Subtract,
Bring down.
Saxon is a very rote program.
Jan
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about
learning how to dance in the rain." BJ Gallagher
From: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:17:40 -0800
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Fluency
I agree with Nancy. I am so sick and tired of the "supported by
research" claim that I could scream. One of my principals sent
out an
email a few weeks ago with a link and an article that showed
research
about student achievement with Saxon math. ick. So I read it,
and it
referred basically to test scores AND also mentioned that Saxon
math
did not do well in problem-solving, which was better addressed
with a
different program that was studied. I think it was three or four
math
programs that were compared, and maybe it was Everyday Math that
was
better at problem-solving, but please don't quote me. Anyway, the
point is that it truly is like a game of telephone. Perfect
analogy,
Nancy.
Renee
On Mar 13, 2010, at 3:22 AM, [email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 3/10/2010 11:59:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
Could you give me a reference for that research?
So I'm behind on email, but don't see a response. I find often
that
something that is supposedly "supported by lots of research," is
kind of like the
telephone game. Everyone has heard that there is, but no one
quite can
pinpoint it. Just the fact that people say there is research makes
it so? I
agree with Maureen. I have seen a lot of evidence that often
students who read
slowly and methodically with prosidy, rereading and thinking
carefully,
are way better at comprehension than those who are trying to beat
the egg
timer.
Nancy
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