Evelia, I have really enjoyed using The CAFE book this year by Gail Bushey and her sister and their website. A good place to start with mini-lessons is all their behaviors around independent reading listed in their other book the Daily Five. I don't know what grade you teach, but if you teach K-6 this would be a good place to start. Check out their website the dailycafe.com to get an idea. After the reading related routine is set then teaching from the needed strategy list is a great organizer. Also, Heineman has just published this new series on mentor texts for fiction and non-fiction that looks excellent. I'm planning to look it over this summer. Betsy Kohnstamm, Columbia Falls, Montana
---------------------------------------- From: "evelia cadet" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 11:16 AM To: "Mosaic Group" <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSAIC] Launching Reader's Workshop First, I want to truly thank you all for taking the time to answer my questions and help me become a more effective educator. I love what I do and I want to do what is best for my students. As some of you know, I am trying to fully launch reader's workshop next year. I am the only one at my school so far who believe in this method of teaching reading; hopefully I will be able to influence other teachers. I putting my reader's workshop plan together, however there are so many desicions to make. Sometimes it is overwhelming. One of the questions I have is about minilessons. There are so many minilessons to teach and I know I won't be able to teach them all. What minilessons are essential to teach at the beginning of the school year? Does anyone has a minilesson schedule that has worked for you? My next question is related to the reader's notebook. Again, there are so many options. I tried to use one last year, however it had too many forms. We could not keep up with it. Do you have any suggestion about the reader's notebook? What do think are the most important forms to include? Ok. This is it! Thank you all. Evelia _______________________________________________ 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
