In Debbie Millers book Reading For Meaning she does list "tried and true" books for each thinking strategy. Monitoring for Meaning Activating, utilizing and building Background Knowledge Asking Questions Drawing Inferences Determining Importance Creating Sensory Images Synthesizing I
Lisa Ward -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Betty Nelson Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MOSAIC] Flexible grouping in Grade 2--Reading suggestions Dear Mosaic group, I am working on making my flexible groups in my readers workshop easier to manage for my grade 2 classroom which is full of many gifted children. Some of the groups that I am seeing develop are: - Understanding what the author's message is. - Understanding how to tell between the main author's message and sub-messages. - Reading with expression - Understanding what the text features are of a fiction book (most of them really get a non-fiction book but are still stuck on Fiction) - I'm sure there are many more I will see soon but they have not popped onto my radar yet. I used to really waist my time and go through my guided reading books looking for books that would go with each one of the flexible groups that I was forming. I'm sure there is some smart professor, website, book ,etc... that has already thought of this idea and made lists of possible flexible groups like: Author's message and all the leveled books that you can read that really help you highlight Author's message in a clear way for kids in the Lower Primary grades. For example if I was working on reading with expression I may recommend any of the *Froggy *books by Jonathon London. They are great mentor texts for expression. Does anyone else know some book or web page that does this for a long list of possible flexible groupings for reading with grade 2 kids? I'm thinking I've seen something like this in one of Debbie Miller's books does anyone know the Title? Thanks, Betty Nelson HKIS-LP Grade 2 Teacher Website: http://msnelsonsgrade2.weebly.com/index.html _______________________________________________ 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
