I will look up and send the bibliographic sources for several articles that share examples re the letters. They are different than reading logs...I believe more authentic (more in the dialogue journals nature of writing as authentic instructional conversations rather than "assignments" - changes everything. I just got back from camping but will look up the cites for everyone.
Sally On 7/18/11 2:05 PM, "K. Helt" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Sally and Jan for the input. You¹ve given several things for me > to think about and the reading logs thread has been helpful too. > > Sally - I hadn¹t heard of Atwell or Sibberson; but I checked and the > university library in town has a few of their books which I¹ll 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 I¹ll do as you suggest > and have longer works going concurrently and use the shorter ones for > teaching times. > > I¹m not sure what the formulaic approach to literature circles is, but I¹m > 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 I¹ll have PreK, K, 2nd,4th,6th, and 8 > th so I¹m 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
