Attached is a lesson I use with the picture book, June 29, 1999 by Wiesner.
First students have to make connections to a list of 5 vocab words, making
predictions as to the content of the story. Then I read a part of the story
and ask them to fix up their thinking after seeing 5 new words from the
story, based on their connections and prior knowledge. Once again I read
part of the story. This is followed by the third and final group of vocab
words from the story. In groups, each time they try to predict the story
line, and report out their predictions to the large group. Last the ending
of the book is read. I have included this lesson in a presentation I am
making about using picture books for reading strategies in the middle school
classroom at the National Middle School Conference in November. Please give
me feedback if you try it! Thanks,
Lana Brozik, Eastview Middle School (U-46)
**View Lana's lesson at www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm.***
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From: MEHitzel@aol.com
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:02:50 EDT
Subject: [mosaic] Grant writing
Hi everyone. I believe a few weeks ago a teacher on this listserve
mentioned
that they had written a grant and recieved funds to use for adding books to
be used for strategy instruction to their classroom. Our local education
association has a mini-grant program where they give funds to support
projects that promote literacy. I would like to attempt to write for a grant
but have never done so before. It needs to be presented in the form of a
project so I thought I would focus on the strategy of questioning. I'm
presently working on connections and plan to start sensory imaging in the
next couple of weeks. My questions to you are:
1. What book recommendations do you have for the teaching of this strategy
that I should request funds for? (grade 4/5)
2. What would be measureable goals for a unit on questioning?
3. Have any of you written grants with this purpose and what advice do you
have?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Martha/4/5/AZ
mehitzel@aol.com
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From: "Ginger/Rob" <elephant@foxvalley.net>
Subject: [mosaic] recently sent attachment
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 06:37:25 -0500
The lesson on introducing the Science Fiction genre is now available on the
"Teaching Tools" web page www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm.
Unfortunately, our digest program will not support attachments. So once
again, I apologize to the digest members for the inconvenience of the
encoding that shows up when an attachment is sent to the list.
In the future, if you have a great lesson to share (or anything else in a
word document that you want to share) send it to me at home
(elephant@foxvalley.net) and I will add it to the web page.
Please do not request the attachment to be sent again.
Thank you for your help.
Ginger
moderator
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From: "Ginger/Rob" <elephant@foxvalley.net>
Subject: [mosaic] welcome to new members
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:00:25 -0500
Over the past three days we have had over 50 new members join our list.
WELCOME!!! Glad to hear people are knowing of us. I ran a member list last
night and we are at about 850 members!!!! Can you believe that?
(Hmmmmm..... I wonder why we are all so quiet?????)
I just wanted to remind everyone about the other resources we offer.
First, we have an online book data base where teachers can add titles of
books used in their strategy teaching as well as comments about their
lessons. Anyone can access/add comments at any time. You can reach our
book database at http://www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/strategies.htm Let's all
remember to add titles as the year progresses.
Next, we archive our daily listserve mail weekly. If you are a new member
you can spend some time reading past conversations. We have a wealth of
sharing housed in our archives. Grab a cup of coffee and cozy up to your
computer and get lots of knew learning that way. Our archives are located
at http://www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/archive/archive.htm
Last, on our fairly new "Teaching Tools" web page
www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm we have GREAT resources to
download and print out. If you have word document/files you would be
willing to share to post there, just email them to ME (NOT THE
LIST!!!!!!!!!) in an attachment and I will add them. My home email is
elephant@foxvalley.net
Please don't send attachments to the list. Send them to me at home.
Glad to have all the new members! We are a quiet group but between us all
we are a powerful group! I'd be thrilled to have more
sharing/questioning/checking in done on a regular basis. What have you ALL
been up to??????
Ginger
moderator
grade 3
elephant@foxvalley.net
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Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:43:23 -0500
From: Andy and Shelly Kennedy <pristine@aclass.com>
Subject: Re: [mosaic] Grant Writing
I have written a grant based on the premise of Mosaic and then tied it
to "thinking about our thinking". Basically the grant money bought
me
some books and a variety of cool writing supplies.
Also, a teacher in our building last year got a $10,000 Toyota Science
Grant around the Mosaic philosophy tied to science. It's spectacular.
(So is she.)
Anyway, my advice is -
1.) Grant writing is a skill, but it's also sometimes luck. I know
grants that are funded one year but are the next. Don't give up if you
try once and don't get funding.
2.) Catchy titles and connections are usually a hit. Mine was called
"Reading and Writing Workshop: Tool Time". Then I kept referring back
to the need for tools - our Mosaic strategies as tools and the writing
supplies.
Hope this helps!
Shelly Kennedy
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From: "Marti" <theplumtrees@prodigy.net>
Subject: [mosaic] making connections
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 06:58:19 -0700
I have run into a problem or a concern with making connections that I =
have not run into before. I have been doing these things for the past =
several years, but probably not as well as this year. I have been using =
Deb's book, and I have been doing the lessons pretty much as she =
suggests. Some of my children are giving me some interesting =
connections, Interesting enough for me to probe them a little deeper, =
because I am confident that they have not had that particular =
experience. After some gentle probing, I am discovering that they are =
fabricating the experience, and we just leave it as that was a dream =
they had. Anyone else had this problem, and what have you done about =
it, or does anyone have any suggestions.
A side note, I had a 1/2 combo last year, and I kept two of my children. =
These two are making some great connections and asking some astounding =
questions. A mother who comes in to help, ( I had her son last year) =
chuckles as she listens to us making connections. She has commented on =
the quality of the children's thinking from last year. It truly is =
amazing and both are ELD students.
Marti
2nd CA
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From: TFlanaganFamily@aol.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:41:18 EDT
Subject: [mosaic] help requested
Hello,
I am feeling so overwhelmed. I am taking 2 grad classes among other things.
In one of my classes I'm trying to create a unit based just on schema,
metacognition. I'm basing it on a sort of author study format. Right now I'm
using Eric Carle. The problem is, I'm great at doing all the integrated
activities, but I want to create a unit just focusing on the author schema
theme. Please give any suggestions. I think my goal is to show how really
focusing on an author/illustrator can build a background for the students. I
hope it will help them when they do future reading of the same and different
authors. I hope someone can help me to see an easier way to do this. How can
I develop assessments for this type of objective? I'm thinking observation
checklist and anecdotal records. Can anyone give me a more "traditional"
way
to assess this? Thanks!
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 10:33:22 -0500
From: "hope seider" <hseider@clinton.k12.mo.us>
Subject: Re: [mosaic] Deb Miller
I just got back from the National Fall Study in Denver and heard Deb
Miller speak one afternoon. So I know she is a presenter there!
You might be able to get her by contacting PEBC at their website:
www.pebc.org
Good luck,
Hope
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:36:02 -0500
From: "Dawn Marmo" <dmarmo@kaneland.org>
Subject: Re: [mosaic] Reminder - Making Connections Contest
I have written a few lessons to work in schema and makinc conections,
along with presenting these ideas in various classrooms. As a reading
specialist, I have the opportunity this year to model various lessons
for teachers in my school, it has been very exciting!! Attached is the
lesson I wrote about predicting and schema forthe teachers to use
themselves. I also included giving them "posters" that I created for
schema and predicting. The specific lesson I used myself will follow in
another email. I hope this is of use...
Dawn
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From: LandRT12@aol.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:23:07 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] REPOST/Schema/author study pt 1
Hi,
I've been working on author schema with my third grade students also. I
did a similar lesson to Ginger's, but I used Kevin Henkes' books as models.
I read about 5 of his books and walked the kids through a ready-made chart
about Kevin Henkes books. After I read each book, we looked at the chart on
the overhead to see if the book met the elements on the chart. After
several
days of "fingerprinting" Kevin Henkes, I put the students into small
groups
and gave each group 4-6 books by one author. The authors incuded James
Marshall, Verna Aardema, Patricia Polacco, Cynthia Rylant, and Mem Fox. I
sent them off to read as many of the books as they could finish in a two
reader's workshop sessions, and asked them to talk with their group about
any
"fingerprints" they saw in the author's books. We are at this point
so far,
and one group has already done a great job listing characteristics of
Patricia Polacco's book. One thing that they noticed (brilliant as they
are)
was that she usually has an older character or grandparent with a younger
child in her stories. After they have their conversation and agree on
several
fingerprints, they will create their own chart and then share with the
class.
I thought that perhaps I'd then have the students read some of the authors
they didn't do and see if they can pinpoint some of the "fingerprints."
I'll keep you posted.
A book I've used for text to self connections is All the Places to Love by
Patricia McLaughlin. It's a beautiful story about a family and its rituals
and celebrations for new babies. It talks about how important special
places
are in our lives.
In this case it was the barn, the hills, the woods. I use it not only to
generated text to self connections in reading, but use it to inspire the
student's writing! Each students writes a descriptive paragraph about a very
special place in their lives.
Later in the year when we read Sarah, Plain, and Tall, the students easily
make text to text connections, and they plug right into author schema!
Laurie Tandy
Third Grade
California
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:16:34 -0500
Subject: [mosaic] sensory imaging for secondary students
From: biskner_s/shs@dns.u46.k12.il.us
Yesterday I began teaching the strategy of sensory imaging to a
class of freshmen. As my anchor lesson in which I modeled my thinking,
I used the first part of the first chapter of Richard Peck's latest
novel A Year Down Yonder. It's loaded with images to pull from. (I try
to use novels that I think the students will be interested in, and
invariably one of them will ask to read it. This is a plus for using
parts of YA novels for modeling.)
It was so gratifying to see the concentration on their faces as I
talked about "my pictures" and to see them nodding to indicate that
their pictures were similar to mine. After, we discussed how I
embelished my pictures by adding even more details than Peck had given
me. (One student figured out that I was coming up with extra details
because I was making connections.)I had also intentionally planned to
underestimate the girls age on the first page so I could explain how I
made her grow in my mind when I eventually learned that she was 15.
Sue Biskner
Streamwood High School
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From: "Linda Schamp" <schamp@bpsce.org>
Subject: Re: [mosaic] recently sent attachment
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:20:33 -0500
What grade level would you use this with?
The lesson on introducing the Science Fiction genre is now
available on the
"Teaching Tools" web page www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm.
2nd/SD
**The article was written by a middle school teacher, but could be adapted to your grade level with different text.
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From: "Carrie Becker" <pigsrock@hotmail.com>
Subject: [mosaic] SS Picture Books and Comprehension Strategies
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:11:56 -0400
Hi everyone! I was wondering if you could help me out.
I'm working on a project for a grad class. What I'm doing is compiling a =
list of books and strategies that could be used to supplement my social s=
tudies curriculum. The major studies we do are from the Constitution to 2=
0th century:
Constitution/Government
Westward Expansion/Pioneers/War of 1812
Industrial Revolution/Immigration
Slavery/Civil War
WWI
Great Depression
WWII
Civil Rights
Cold War
Introduction to Mexico and Canada
I have some books I've used in the past, but was wondering if you had any=
favorites. To go along with the books I am also looking for some compreh=
ension strategy activities (like those presented in Mosaic of Thought and=
Strategies That Work) that you think would work best within any of these=
social studies units. They don't have to be specific to a book, any that=
you use would be great!
Thanks so much!
--Carrie Becker/CT
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From: JLabar1026@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:32:35 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] [PERIODIC mosaic DIGEST POSTING]
In a message dated 10/24/02 8:10:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mosaic-owner@u46teachers.org writes:
> .)
> It was so gratifying to see the concentration on their faces as I
> talked about "my pictures" and to see them nodding to indicate
that
> their pictures were similar to mine
>
> Sue- I have reasoned that "making pictures" during reading is
the reason
> why so many are unhappy when the film is made into a film, Mind pictures
> and imagination appear to be far superior to the camera's eye. . . to wit
-
> White Oleander. Not having read the book put me at an advantage- I loved
> the movie.
>
> BG
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From: RKCTEC5@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:08:09 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] [PERIODIC mosaic DIGEST POSTING]
I always see mind pictures when I read, but am aware of quite a few of my
colleagues that say they don't. Anyone out there that doesn't see pictures
when they read? I'm trying to get a sense of what it's like. From what my
colleagues say, they are auditory learners, and don't see any pictures or
mind movies while reading.
Ruby
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From: MAMASWIRLZ@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:12:27 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] SS Picture Books and Comprehension Strategies
Here is a bibliography that my daughter put together....not only picture
books, hope it is helpful.
For the civil war, try Patricia Pollaco's Pink and Say
For Slavery,
Nettie's Trip South (Ann Turner)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Deborah Hopkinson)
Aunt Harriets Underground Railroad in the Sky (Faith Ringgold)
Bibliography/Webliography
Web Sites
For Students:
American Memory Retrieved from World Wide Web July 21, 2002:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html
Information and images of New York Civil War artifacts.
TITLE Retrieved from World Wide Web July 14, 2002:
http://www.holtlaborlibrary.org/Lawrence.html
Factual information about the Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912.
The Struggle Against Child Labor Retrieved from World Wide Web July 21,
2002:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nclc/
Information on the campaign to end child labor. This website has a gripping
collection of Lewis Hine=E2=80=99s photographs of child laborers and the opt
ion of zooming in on pictures to look at details.
American Memory Retrieved from World Wide Web July 22, 2002:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
Excellent collection of all kinds of documents documenting the American
memory. This site has interviews, posters, photographs, and more. It=E2=
=80=99s=20
truly fascinating.
For Teachers:
How the Other Half Lives Retrieved from World Wide Web July 22, 2002:
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
This site containts a hypertext version of Jacob Riis=E2=80=99 How the Other
Half
Lives. Though the language might be a bit outdated, the images will engage
children and adults.
Amazon.com Retrieved from World Wide Web July 13, 2002:
http://www.amazon.com/
Amazon.com is a well-known shopping site. I like the fact that Amazon makes
it easy to search children=E2=80=99s books by title and topic. Each book title
has
descriptions and reviews. Many of the suggestions provided by the website
are also worth looking into.
American History Retrieved from World Wide Web July 13, 2002:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/history/toc.htm
General overview of topics in American history.
Monroe Library Retrieved from World Wide Web July 20, 2002:
http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/childrens/
Another website which lists children=E2=80=99s books according to topics.
Hall Kids History Retrieved from World Wide Web July 14, 2002:
http://hallkidshistory.com/united_states/8.shtml
More lists of children=E2=80=99s books about historical periods.
Carol Hurst=E2=80=99s Children=E2=80=99s Book Website Retrieved from World
Wide Web July
14, 2002:
http://www.carolhurst.com/
This website contains booklists for various topics and time periods in
American history.
Printed Materials
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell (1996) Growing up in coal country. Unknown:
Houghton Mifflin Co
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell (1999) Kids on strike! Unknown: Houghton Mifflin
Co
Kids organize a strike about child labor.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell (2000) A coal miner's bride: The diary of Anetka
Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896. Unknown: Scholastic Trade
Life for the families of coal miners.
Booth, David (year) The dust bowl. Unknown: Kids Can Press
Life in the dustbowl during the Depression.
Cohen, Amy (1993) From Sea to Shining Sea. New York: Scholastic
A collection of American folklore and songs.
Curtis, Christopher Paul (1999) Bud, not Buddy. Unknown: Yearling Books
A young boy searches for his father during the depression.
Freedman, Russell and Lewis Hine (1998) Kids at work : Lewis Hine and the
Crusade against child labor. Unknown: Clarion Books
The work of a noted photographer of child laborers.
Hesse, Karen (1999) Out of the dust. New York: Scholastic
A young girls deals with the death of her mother.
Koller, Jackie French (1999) Nothing to fear. Unknown: Econo-Clad Books
An Irish immigrant family=E2=80=99s life in New York during the depression.
Laughlin, Rosemary (1999) The Pullman strike of 1894: American labor comes
of age. Unknown: Morgan Reynolds
The background and execution of this famous event in American history.
Patterson, Katherine (1991) Lyddie. Unknown: Dutton
Life for a young woman in a textile factory.
Peck, Robert Newton (1991) Arly's run. Unknown: Walker & Co.
Arly Pool, a picker, is forced into a work gang.
Skurzynski, Gloria (2001) Rockbuster. Unknown: Atheneum
A young boy who lives in a mining town is caught up in the early struggles of
the labor movement.
Taylor, Mildred (1997) Roll of thunder, hear my cry. Unknown: Puffin
Engaging story about a Black family in the South during the Depression. The
power of love and family are strong themes in this book.
Other Materials
Collective Voices. [videocassette]. Boston: Massachusetts AFL-CIO, n.d.
This documentary uses narration using the strikers own words and newspaper
accounts, photographs, and songs.
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From: Quest4literacy@aol.com
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 09:58:31 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] SS Picture Books and Comprehension Strategies
Please try:
<A HREF="http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/rbo.htm">Core
Knowledge - Resources to Build On</A>
The web database is good, but the BOOK is even better. It has been
indispensable in planning my lessons for the past several years.
<A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385316402/qid=1035640642/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_3/102-2198803-5056906?v=glance&n=507846">Amazon.com:
Books: Books to Build on: A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for
Parents and Teachers (Core Knowledge Series)</A>
Angie/1/IN
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