[MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell

[Renee]

Glad to meet you, John.  Radical Reflections is my all time favorite  
book about reading. Anyone who hasn't read it should think about doing  
so. :-)

Renee


On Jun 2, 2007, at 7:42 AM, jdelich at springfield.k12.il.us wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to the listserve too. A colleague here in Springfield, IL  
> invited me to join. We saw Nancie Atwell speak about her Reading Zone  
> at the Illinois Reading Conference in March. She was outstanding.  
> Another friend bought the book, but I have not read it cover to cover  
> yet. I agree with her (and always have thought the teaching of these  
> strategies in isolation for reading fiction was not natural for  
> readers). I believe a good dose of Mem Fox's theory on the power of  
> read alouds (Radical Reflections) is the best way to "model" these  
> strategies, or what readers do when they read a book!
>
> John Delich
>
>
> mosaic at literacyworkshop.org wrote:
>> Hello!
>>   I am a new member of your group and excited to share ideas! I have  
>> taught Grades 3, 4, & 5 for 17 years.  I finished a Master's degree  
>> in Reading and Literacy last December and will be the Title I reading  
>> teacher this coming year.  I live and teach in a "village" of 310  
>> people in rural Nebraska. Our school is a K-12 district and due to  
>> the open enrollment laws in NE we have 287 children in our school. 90  
>> students are option students from a larger town 13 miles away.
>>  Sometimes I feel isolated out here on the plains, so I am thrilled  
>> to find this group of effective and caring teachers!
>>  I discovered reading strategies on-line through a teachers  
>> chatboard. I bought and studied all requisite books and incorporated  
>> strategy teaching throughout my reading instruction with good  
>> results.  This spring I read Nancy Atwell's
>> "The Reading Zone" and am now very confused!
>>   Her basic premise is about your top-down/bottom-up debate.
>> Atwell suggests that children learn to comprehend fiction by READING!  
>> She suggests getting the right book in a child's hands is the  
>> singular most important component to their learning to comprehend.   
>> She feels strategies such as making connections teach our children to  
>> be segmented distracted readers. She feels that when a reader enters  
>> 'the zone"
>> of a great story comprehension will follow.  She feels teaching  
>> strategies is only necessary when reading nonfiction.
>>   Has anyone else read this book?  What are your thoughts?
>>                      Christina
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