[MOSAIC] teaching strategies

[Angela Almond]

My problem is not with the chapter fiction books because we don't focus on
these as much during reading classes.  We focus more on teaching the
strategies through non-fiction and then we model with fiction during read
aloud and the kids practice during SSR when we conference with them.  The
problem I am running into is the non-fiction articles and trade books that
I had been using and stocked my classroom with are now being borrowed by
the third grade teachers so that next year most of what I have been using
for several years will not be able to be used.  I am all about using new
material and each year I find better texts to use but there are some that
are just hard to beat when trying to teach a difficult strategy.

Angela Hatley Almond
Fourth Grade
East Albemarle Elementary School