[MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 1, Issue 9

[Cindy]

Susan, what grade do you teach?  Are these the strategies from Mosaic?  
Cindy
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:44:09 -0600
From: Susan Nixon <Susan at desertskyone.com>
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Starting Reader's Workshop For the First Time
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Hi, Stephanie,

My students were almost all ESL (or whatever the current initials 
are), and I started with text to self, then T to T, then T to world. 
In addition to teaching the concept with the regular reading lesson, 
I modeled it during the 3-4 times I read to my students each day (one 
fiction, one non-fiction, one poem and one chapter book, after 
lunch).  As they began to catch on, which was a few at a time, they 
would model for each other, as well.  Some it took a week, some it 
took all year, but they all get it eventually.

Teaching the strategies is sort of a layered spiral, if that makes 
sense.  You introduce new things, and keep repeating the older 
things, coming around again and again.  The ideal thing is to have 
the same students for several years, and either loop with them or 
have teachers who are teaching the same concepts.  Of course, inner 
city schools, that isn't likely to happen.  So you keep hitting the 
concepts, and get the most out that you can.  It will be worth it for 
every one who learns even one strategy.

-- 
Hugs,

Susan

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