[MOSAIC] Words Their Way

[The Plumtree]

My understanding is that HM based some if their word work ideas on 
Cunningham's work--  I am a 4 blocks teacher and a presenter. I am very 
familiar with Cunningham's work.  In HM's pitch to our district about 3+ yrs 
ago,  HM told our school things that Pat had said.  Well what they said did 
not seem kosher to me.  I contacted Pat and she said that she did not say 
what they claimed she had said.---the point being--companies may use some of 
the ideas of credible people like Cunningham, or Templeton and Baird--but 
they do take liberties, and will even say things that are not true.  I know 
that HM has taken may liberties with Pat's stuff--like making words etc. 
Companies will take what they want, and tweak good ideas to sell the 
programs to the various states and school districts.  I do not use HM's 
phonics--I use phonics based on Pat Cunningham's Working With Words 
activates--much-much better than HM's altered versions of Cunningham's or 
any other experts work in the field of phonics.

Marti



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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Words Their Way


> Are you sure that the Houghton Mifflin has a Words Their Way  component?
> Maybe our district has an old verison, but I thought ours had word  work 
> based on
> Pat Cunninghams making words. Doesn't McGraw Hill have the WTW  component? 
> Can
> anyone clear this up for me???
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