Try Allington's Book What Really Matters In Response to Intervention.
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Today's Topics: 1. Re: readers workshop approach ([email protected]) 2. Re: readers workshop approach (Sally Thomas) 3. Summarization (e h) 4. Re: readers workshop approach (Sally Thomas) 5. Re: readers workshop approach (Terry) 6. Re: readers workshop approach (e h) 7. Re: readers workshop approach (Mena) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:07:21 -0500 (EST) From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sally, Would you happen to know exactly what book title has the information about students reading at least one hour during the school day? Thanks! Rosie -----Original Message----- From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 12:22 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Use Richard Allington's work. Lots of research that says children need to be reading (not doing reading stuff) AT LEAST one hour a day at school and they need to be reading books that are at their "just right" level. His latest is on response to intervention but his overall book that summarizes research in reading is excellent. It would be a great book to read as a staff or to hand a principal. (note this doesn't specifically support reading workshop BUT reading workshop is a structure that can allow a teacher to implement the findings of research, ie an emphasis on actually extensive reading AND reading at appropriate levels for each child.) Sally On 11/28/10 6:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction is > ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, and > leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I teach > small groups. There are so many problems with this concept... > > I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they are > all taught from the 4th grade basal. > The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to differentiate > them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted copy > paper) > About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations > There is absolutely no time for actual reading > The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading level, this > does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level > I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to prove my > point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? > > Thanks, > Rosie > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:59:16 -0800 From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <c9199a74.3378%[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII What Really Matters for Struggling Readers I also saw an article by him that said it all very succinctly 0 I have it in a box somewhere. Think I'll try to track it down. I used it in working with a number of schools trying to evade Reading First practices. Let me work on that some more. He based it on a very large study with Peter Johnston on the reading practices of the most effective reading teachers in the country. It made the case for actual time spent reading, reading just right books, and excellent teaching of good reading strategies. (fits with this list serve for sure!) Let me try looking. I certainly can dig out my boxes over the holidays if worse comes to worse if you still need it. Sally On 11/29/10 4:07 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sally, Would you happen to know exactly what book title has the information > about students reading at least one hour during the school day? > > Thanks! > > Rosie > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> > To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 12:22 pm > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach > > > Use Richard Allington's work. Lots of research that says children need to > > be reading (not doing reading stuff) AT LEAST one hour a day at school and > > they need to be reading books that are at their "just right" level. His > > latest is on response to intervention but his overall book that summarizes > > research in reading is excellent. It would be a great book to read as a > > staff or to hand a principal. (note this doesn't specifically support > > reading workshop BUT reading workshop is a structure that can allow a > > teacher to implement the findings of research, ie an emphasis on actually > > extensive reading AND reading at appropriate levels for each child.) > > Sally > > > > > > On 11/28/10 6:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction >> is > >> ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, and > >> leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I teach > >> small groups. There are so many problems with this concept... > >> > >> I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they are > >> all taught from the 4th grade basal. > >> The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to differentiate > >> them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted copy > >> paper) > >> About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations > >> There is absolutely no time for actual reading > >> The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading level, >> this > >> does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level > >> I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to prove my > >> point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Rosie > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:06:02 -0500 From: e h <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] Summarization Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi all, I'm wondering on summarization that students in grade 2 are expected to do when they are being assessed....Do any of use Fountas and Pinnell benchmark or DRA? Do these assessments ask children to summarize at the end of their reading? How do they do it? What type of questions/prompts do they use? If any of you use other assessments that you think are particularly good-- please share! Thank you! ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:18:21 -0800 From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <c9199eed.337b%[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Woo Hoo!!! Found it. It's on the Reading Rockets website article #96 think you can download it! http://www.readingrockets.org/article/96 Title of excellent article: "The Six T's of Effective Literacy Instruction" This is one of the best summaries I know based on research of very effective teachers (as measured by recommendations of families and principals and test scores). I so agree witht everything here. And the book I recommended (What really matters... ) will provide many many research citations....in fact leads you to a website with extensive and complete bibliographies of the research supporting. Allington is famous for NOT being biased in his approaches.....basing his recommendations on research and his actual experience through a lifetime of finding what works best with struggling readers. He comes out on the progressive end of the balance (e.g cares about equity and is constructivist in theoretical approach) but he is not a "purist" in thinking there is only one right way. On 11/29/10 4:07 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sally, Would you happen to know exactly what book title has the information > about students reading at least one hour during the school day? > > Thanks! > > Rosie > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> > To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 12:22 pm > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach > > > Use Richard Allington's work. Lots of research that says children need to > > be reading (not doing reading stuff) AT LEAST one hour a day at school and > > they need to be reading books that are at their "just right" level. His > > latest is on response to intervention but his overall book that summarizes > > research in reading is excellent. It would be a great book to read as a > > staff or to hand a principal. (note this doesn't specifically support > > reading workshop BUT reading workshop is a structure that can allow a > > teacher to implement the findings of research, ie an emphasis on actually > > extensive reading AND reading at appropriate levels for each child.) > > Sally > > > > > > On 11/28/10 6:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction >> is > >> ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, and > >> leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I teach > >> small groups. There are so many problems with this concept... > >> > >> I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they are > >> all taught from the 4th grade basal. > >> The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to differentiate > >> them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted copy > >> paper) > >> About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations > >> There is absolutely no time for actual reading > >> The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading level, >> this > >> does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level > >> I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to prove my > >> point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Rosie > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:41:45 -0600 From: Terry <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 ooo...thanks for posting this. I will be using this article in my Literature Review for my Research Paper for my Master's ... This is like a little Christmas gift! :) Terry On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Sally Thomas <[email protected]>wrote: > Woo Hoo!!! Found it. It's on the Reading Rockets website article #96 > think > you can download it! > > http://www.readingrockets.org/article/96 > > Title of excellent article: "The Six T's of Effective Literacy > Instruction" > This is one of the best summaries I know based on research of very > effective > teachers (as measured by recommendations of families and principals and > test > scores). I so agree witht everything here. > > And the book I recommended (What really matters... ) will provide many > many > research citations....in fact leads you to a website with extensive and > complete bibliographies of the research supporting. > > Allington is famous for NOT being biased in his approaches.....basing his > recommendations on research and his actual experience through a lifetime of > finding what works best with struggling readers. He comes out on the > progressive end of the balance (e.g cares about equity and is > constructivist in theoretical approach) but he is not a "purist" in > thinking there is only one right way. > > On 11/29/10 4:07 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sally, Would you happen to know exactly what book title has the > information > > about students reading at least one hour during the school day? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Rosie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> > > To: mosaic listserve <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 12:22 pm > > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach > > > > > > Use Richard Allington's work. Lots of research that says children need > to > > > > be reading (not doing reading stuff) AT LEAST one hour a day at school > and > > > > they need to be reading books that are at their "just right" level. His > > > > latest is on response to intervention but his overall book that > summarizes > > > > research in reading is excellent. It would be a great book to read as a > > > > staff or to hand a principal. (note this doesn't specifically support > > > > reading workshop BUT reading workshop is a structure that can allow a > > > > teacher to implement the findings of research, ie an emphasis on actually > > > > extensive reading AND reading at appropriate levels for each child.) > > > > Sally > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/28/10 6:53 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy > instruction > >> is > > > >> ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, > and > > > >> leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I > teach > > > >> small groups. There are so many problems with this concept... > > > >> > > > >> I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they > are > > > >> all taught from the 4th grade basal. > > > >> The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to > differentiate > > > >> them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted > copy > > > >> paper) > > > >> About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations > > > >> There is absolutely no time for actual reading > > > >> The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading > level, > >> this > > > >> does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level > > > >> I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to > prove my > > > >> point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? > > > >> > > > >> Thanks, > > > >> Rosie > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- *Stress (substitue "worry") is a form of atheism; it infers that you do not believe God is in control.* * * `?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*:-,_,.-:*?`?*:-.,_,.-:*?`?*: ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:47:19 -0500 From: e h <[email protected]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 This is a very interesting topic, but it appears that are a few issues conflated here: As far as the practice reading is concerned: there is research on each of these topics: - The research seems to suggest that good readers do considerably more reading than the poor reader, and thereby further strengthen their skills. This creates Stanovich's (1986) famous Matthew's Effect. - However, Cunningham has an early 1990s paper that looks at DEAR and SSR. The authors found that if the children do silent reading without getting feedback from the teacher, they don't gain much (I'm pretty sure that the DV was vocab, but I can check for anyone that is interested). Stanovich's and Cunningham's papers do not contradict each other. Stanovich's paper is correlational and simply states that these two incidents co-occur; good reader read more. Cunningham's study is either experimental or causal-comparative, which attempted to manipulate a change through increasing independent reading...they tried to move beyond "these two even co-occur" to "increased reading produces better reading skills" and they were unsuccessful. For all we know, good reading skills causes a reader to read more.... The second issue is the issue of basals. Basals have a number of limitations: 1. Every child is working at the same level 2. Basals are not consistent in the amount of phonics based instruction and whole language instruction they use. Therefore, it is difficult to generalize and make a "one size fits all" rule for all Basals. 3. You also need to consider the number of novel words vs. repeated words in Basals. But in general, Basals do not yield the best results in teaching reading. Menon and Hiebert (2005) is a good example. Also, in Chapter 11 of Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print, Adams (1990) discusses the fallacy of Basals. Best! On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In our district it appears that adopting a basal (K-5) series has > negatively impacted reading achievement in grades K-5. > > > Dr. Sandra Henry > Middle School Curriculum Coordinator > Sioux Falls School District 49-5 > 201 E. 38th Street > Sioux Falls, SD 57105 > 605-367-7871 > 605-367-7906 fax > [email protected] > > P BE GREEN Please don't print this e-mail unless really necessary! > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, contains > information which may be privileged, confidential and/or protected from > disclosure. The information is intended only for the use of the individual > or entity named above. If you think you have received this message in > error, please email the sender then delete the email from your computer > system and destroy any hard copies of the email. If you are not the > intended recipient any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email > is strictly prohibited. > ________________________________________ > From: > [email protected][mosaic-bounces+sandra.henry= > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 8:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach > > I am trying to convince my principal that our current literacy instruction > is ineffective and should be abandoned. We currently use a basal series, > and leveled readers from the series. Students work on stations while I > teach small groups. There are so many problems with this concept... > > I have students who read at the Premier level up to 8th grade, yet they are > all taught from the 4th grade basal. > The stations are basically busy work, not matter what I do to differentiate > them, and everything has to have a product (which means lots of wasted copy > paper) > About 6 of my 22 students do not finish or turn in their weekly stations > There is absolutely no time for actual reading > The lowest leveled reader that came with the series is 3.5 reading level, > this does not help the 5+ students I have that read below that reading level > I would like to introduce readers workshop but need some research to prove > my point. Does anyone know where I can locate some? > > Thanks, > Rosie > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:10:54 -0500 From: Mena <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What is the name of this book Sally? Allington's book ..."overall book that summarizes research in reading is excellent" Philomena Marinaccio-Eckel, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University Dept. of Teaching and Learning College of Education 2912 College Ave. ES 214 Davie, FL 33314 Phone: 954-236-1070 Fax: 954-236-1050 -----Original Message----- From: Beverlee Paul <[email protected]> To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Nov 28, 2010 2:30 pm Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] readers workshop approach Try Elaine Garan, both books and articles. Hers is helpful because she uses the National Reading Panel's own research to address issues. If you need further info on her, post again. On Nov 28, 2010 9:05 AM, "Sally Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote: _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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