Thanks to all of you for your responses. I love the idea of individually set goals. That makes more sense.
Terry On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Sue and Paul Therrien < [email protected]> wrote: > Sally, I really like your approach. I am part way there telling them to > read 20 minutes or more a night and having no parent initials. Some do it, > some pretend. But I am going to have them set their goals like you do. Plus, > I like the letter dialog, if I can find the time! Thanks for sharing. > Sue > > --- On Tue, 10/4/11, Sally Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Sally Thomas <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Reading Requirement > To: "mosaic listserve" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 3:44 PM > > > My students set their own goals. We had great discussions about whether or > not they wanted to use # pages, # books. We had great discussions about > the > value of rereading if one wanted to. And on and on. I have evidence of > them raising and lowering their goals for different reasons (e.g. > Afterschool commitments etc. for awhile). Of course at first it took them > some getting used to. Did I really mean it? I shared the "research" about > the importance of extensive reading but that it needed to be engaged > reading. There was literally no way that I could ever really measure that > - > it meant that they had to want to read. Thus their own choices, their own > goals. So this was their own goal for a reason. I did "push" sometimes, > like in about the third month asking them to graph categories of books ( > categories elicited in a class brainstorm) and they had to plot their own. > In addition to amount, they had to try a text from one new category that > month. > > Part of the secret is creating a reading culture where it is an activity > that most (and eventually alll) kids treasure. Another part is using our > teacher knowledge to help kids find the books they will love. They also > learn to help each other find those books. > > Kids took this super seriously. Think if you are building in this kind of > thinking (I also did reading dialogue letters once a week - authentic talk > in writing about a book in the form of real letters back and forth) that > the > worry about assessment and the worry about not really reading just > disappears. At least that was my experience. I LOVED this time and the > letters and the talk. > > Sally > > > On 10/4/11 11:06 AM, "Terry" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > Would you share your thoughts about requiring a certain number of books > to > > be read per quarter? > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- *Stress (substitue "worry") is a form of atheism; it infers that you do not believe God is in control.* * * `´*:-.,_,.-:*´`´*:-,_,.-:*´`´*:-.,_,.-:*´`´*: _______________________________________________ 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
