Looked at the website you cited--looks like a really complicated bulletin
board--something that the teacher would spend far more time on than the kids
would. Many anthologies that basal companies put out have great stories--but
the teachers guide wants to wring far too much out of one great story--could
really kill the story and interest in reading. Students can certainly read
more than one story a week which seems to be the pace for most basals. They
really need time in class for self-directed, self-chosen independent
reading.
Laura
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Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Focus Walls
I did a weekly focus wall in 2 pocket charts when we got Houghton Mifflin
and we were encouraged to teach it "with fidelity." In one pocket chart I
had the theme, selection title, skill/strategy, and a breakdown of items
within the skill/strategy (HM has a skill AND strategy per selection, but I
only did one or the other). The other pocket chart was for the weekly
selection's vocabulary. I taught this way for 2 years. Fortunately, reading
scores not only did not go up, they went down slightly, so we are now NOT
encouraged to even use HM. Last year, my first in 5th grade, we used the
anthology ONE time all year (for the poetry section). I'm not saying that
all the selections are bad--in fact, some are quite good--but I don't like
teaching this way.
And I found this for you:
http://web.nmusd.us/cms/page_view?d=x&piid=&vpid=1237080354622
Judy
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