I don't think centers are bad...I just don't think they should replace reading!
:-) Nor do I think centers should be a mobile worksheet as I think they have
become in some places.
On another note, I want to share that the Primary Comprehension Toolkit lessons
which I have just started to use are also integrating nicely with concepts from
To Understand. They do teach what is essential... and they take just a little
tweaking to include some discussions about what it means to understand.
Jennifer Palmer
Reading Specialist, National Board Certified Teacher
FLES- Lead the discovery, Live the learning, Love the adventure.
"Children grow into the intellectual life around them."
-Vygotsky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of mary mullin
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 8:45 PM
To: Special Chat List for To Understand: New Horizons in ReadingComprehension
Subject: Re: [Understand] My thoughts on Ch. 2
I agree with Jennifer that the Daily 5 makes so much sense instead of doing
centers. Finally I have a set of literacy tasks that provide my students
with sustained engagement with reading, writing and talking about both. I
still have a separate writers workshop. Implementing the Daily 5 this fall
along with being a part of a study group reading and discussing To
Understand has really "reinvigorated my teaching and taken my students to
new levels of learning" (back cover). I love the challenge of figuring out
how to really get my students to comprehend deeply. mary
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