Hi everyone!
A few weeks back I asked for help coming up with picture books and novels=
I could use for my SS units. Now I have lists and am wondering if you've=
used any of the comprehension strategies in SS and which you think work =
best.
Thanks for your help and happy holidays!
--Carrie/CT
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From: "btillman" <btillman@farmerstel.com>
Subject: Re: **Possible_Spam** [mosaic] SS Picture Book Comprehension
Strategies
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:57:02 -0500

Carrie,=20
I stumbled upon a great website that has graphic organizers and =
comprehension information about SS (although it can be used in other =
subject areas).
Surprise, Surprise, the creator is from Wake Forest. (It's not Pat C. :) =
There are some great people there!
Try www.readingquest.org
Cece/LC/GA
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From: "Hartstein, Marian" <hartsteinm@ramnet.k12.ny.us>
Subject: RE: [mosaic] [PERIODIC mosaic DIGEST POSTING]
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 07:33:39 -0500

I'd also appreciate a copy of the lists. I have a middle-school level
partially developed curriculum, by the way, that uses literature and
non-fiction to examine racism, discrimination in the 19th and 20th
centuries. LEt me know if you'd like a list of the materials I've used.
Marian
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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 15:56:19 -0500
From: astreiff@optonline.net
Subject: [mosaic] Schema - authors

Hi everyone...
I teach high school and college level Shakespeare and Chaucer...any ideas
for some author-related connections?
Thanks,
Annie Streiff
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From: Tandy Gunn [mailto:tgunn@island.net]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:24 PM
To: mosaic-owner@u46teachers.org

I thought some of you might find what I have been working on lately useful
or interesting or...

In the past 2 months I have been focussing on the reading strategy of
making connections, the "Making Connections Cue Cards" were given to the
students to remind them of the kind of connections good readers make.
After many sessions of modeling the strategy and teaching the codes of T-T
(text to text), T-S (text to self) and T-W (text to world), the students
marked connections in their reading (with coded post-it notes). After
several weeks of marking connections and discussing the connections with
learning partners and the class, we used the "Summary Response" form to do
some writing about one of the connections made. I am also using the "RPT
Cue Card" as I am finding the students need to be reminded that making
connections happens best when a reader allows time for reflection - so RPT
stands for Read, Pause Think. I am also tying this in with a study of
punctuation and trying to have students realize that punctuation is not
simply a set of rules to write by, but that it serves a purpose in helping
an author convey meaning i.e. periods mark the end of one thought and are a
good place to pause and think about the thought conveyed in that sentence.
Paragraphs are related thoughts, again a good place to pause. Then we
discuss some pauses are very short - others may take us to rereading or
looking at additional text features.

You can look at the documents mentioned here at
http://www.time4teachers.com/ThisMonthPage.htm

Have fun!

Tandy
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From: "Mark and Ronda Elam" <rjelam@mchsi.com>
Subject: [mosaic] new mosaic fan!
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 21:56:43 -0600

hey all..
i'm a new "mosaic convert"... i read the book over the thanksgiving holiday
and have absolutely fell in love it with!!!! i am a LMS in an elem. school
and used the basic 'think aloud' process these past two days with 1, 3 and
5th graders and have already seen SUCH an interest!!! the kids are so vested
in reading... i thought the fifth graders were going to lynch me today if i
didn't read to them from a book i had "previewed" yesterday!!!!!!!
(also moved an old comfy chair and lamp to the library... the flourescent
lights have not been on this week and the kids are mesmerized!

ok.. questions...
i'm also an NCBT candidate and would love to use this technique but am
concerned about the 'assessment' portions ... please share all your
assessment ideas for any ages!!! (i have these kids on a rotating basis..
two days one week /40 min classes, skip a week, and then have them again..)
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From: "Ginger/Rob" <elephant@foxvalley.net>
Subject: [mosaic] assessment
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:39:35 -0600

We have several assessment ideas on our "Teaching Tools" web page at:
www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/tools/tools.htm.

Let's all share ways we collect evidence of growth over time. Do you use
portfolios, learning journals, informal/formal assessments, collection of
various reporting methods/forms?

Also- just a reminder for the new members that we do have an online book
data base where you can find titles of books to use in this teaching along
with comments from others. Anyone can add title and comments. Take a few
minutes to add some of the book you have been using.
www.u46teachers.org/mosaic/strategies.htm

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Ginger
moderator
grade 3
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From: "Mark and Ronda Elam" <rjelam@mchsi.com>
Subject: Re: [mosaic] assessment
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:15:50 -0600

thanks so much!!!
i used the "knots on a counting rope" with my third grade on the second
day... i had three kids that CRIED when they found out that the boy was
blind.. and as a mother of a preemie who was in the NICU and didn't know if
he was going to make it, of course, i couldn't get through without crying
either!
=)
ronda
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