Thank you Sally and Jan for the input. You’ve given several things for me to think about and the reading logs thread has been helpful too.
Sally - I hadn’t heard of Atwell or Sibberson; but I checked and the university library in town has a few of their books which I’ll check out. The reading dialog letters sound like a good plan which I can apply to my younger children as well. I was already thinking of doing some shorter works for literature this year and interspersing them with longer works, but maybe I’ll do as you suggest and have longer works going concurrently and use the shorter ones for teaching times. I’m not sure what the formulaic approach to literature circles is, but I’m starting to get a feel for the literature circles idea from the Tovani books. I may experiment with multi-age literature discussions this summer. Jan- Thanks for telling me about the grades taught for the teachers on this list. In addition to the 12th grader I’ll have PreK, K, 2nd,4th,6th, and 8 th so I’m reading great tips for my younger ones. I think I need to think through what my goals are and which kind of reading responses will meet each goal. Kendall _______________________________________________ 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
