[MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell

[The Simants]

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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Nancy Atwell


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Maxwell!  It is 13 miles from North Platte.
> Christina,
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> Whereabouts in Nebraska?  I work on the Rosebud Reservation just north of 
> Valentine, Nebraska, was raised in and around
> Lincoln and went to high school in Waverly.
>
> Lori
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> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 09:21 , The Simants <asimants at nebnet.net> sent:
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>>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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