Here is the site again:
http://www.stenhouse.com/0335.htm

Debbie Miller is one of the featured teachers. She is AMAZING!!!! As sweet
as can be and just as powerful as she sounds in her new book. I can NOT
believe those are first graders in the video. WOW!!!! Unbelievable! The
talk they are sharing about books and their thinking is VERY ADVANCED!!!!!
If more teachers taught this way we would be growing phenomenal readers from
the ground up!!!

Seeing this teaching in action has helped affirm that what I am trying to do
on a day to day basis IS good teaching. It sure helps to see/hear others
doing it and even though I am still finding MY own way, I know where I've
come from and I know where I am working hard to get to.

Miss hearing from you all!
Ginger
moderator

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From: LandRT12@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 00:53:31 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] Strategies In Action videos

Hello,
I just received my copy of Reading With Meaning in the mail today. I
read the first several pages -introduction, preface, etc. I love it already.
She has read the same professional books I have, loves the same literacy
gurus (Shelly Harwayne, Lucy Calkins, Donald Graves, Joanne Hindley, Ralph
Fletcher, Ellin Keene, Stepanie Harvey....), feels the same way about
children and the incredible way in which they teach us as much or more as we
teach them.
There is such strong political pressure in California to go the way of
prescribed and scripted reading (and math) programs, that it is of utmost
importance to take what we know to be best teaching practice and refine it
with the research and clinical studies brought to us through Mosaic of Thought
, Strategies That Work, and now, Reading With Meaning. Thank you for writing
these wonderful books. All are (or soon will be) worn and dog-eared from
being loved for being real.

Yours in literacy,
Laurie Tandy
Petaluma, California

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From: DeeLanderman@aol.com
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:17:06 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] [PERIODIC mosaic DIGEST POSTING]

I too received my copy of Reading With Meaning. I showed it to my principal
and she is ordering it for our teachers to use as a book talk next fall. I
am interested too in hearing more about the videos mentioned in previous
posts. I am a reading specialist for the first time this year. I work with
teachers who want to SEE what to do not merely read about it. Since my work
load is heavy, it is impossible to get into everyone's room. Videos showing
the pros would help out greatly. Please tell me where and how and the
titles you all know of!!!
Thanks,
Deanne
Long Beach USD, CA

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From: CheriSumm@aol.com
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:33:28 EDT
Subject: Re: [mosaic] hello

Hi Jami and others,

I was intimidated by synthesis in the past. I think the definition of the
strategy was a bit unclear to me. So I decided to try it out with kids
despite my uncertainty. I used some lessons based on what I read in
Strategies That Work. I began my lessons with a puzzle. I showed students
pieces of the puzzle and asked them what they thought the puzzle would be
about. Then I showed them the complete puzzle and we talk about how the
pieces of the puzzle give us some specific information, but when all of the
pieces are together they create something new. Next I read a book and we
talk about the specific pieces of the story (Character, setting, problem and
solution) as we read the story. I record these on a story map. But at the
end of the story we talk about how we put all of this together to create
something new and often this is the author's message from the story. I have
had good luck using the Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater. I think this
has been a good anchor lesson for middle grade students.

Cheri

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