[MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 15, Issue 16
Christine Halliday
challiday50 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 18 16:29:54 EST 2007
I'm looking for some support/suggestions. I work in an inner-city, Title I school. This year, I'm trying to implement Reader's Workshop using the Daily 5 plan. My students are up to @ 23 min. of independent reading (except for the few who can't do 5 min.) and @ 13 min of Read to someone. Here are the issues: what to do with the hand full of students who truly seem unable to sit and read for more than 3-4 minutes. Also, I am the only teacher in my building using this form of Reader's Workshop; most other classrooms use centers. the students rotate through them during the Reading Block. I use to do this, but my reading has convinced me that what students need to do is read more. How do you all fit it in? I have a 75 min block. @ 30 min for read to self; 20-30 min for read to someone; 20-30 min for teacher instruction; 20 min for writing workshop. when do I do vocabulary, spelling, grammar? Right now, I steal minutes from reading or writing to slip in in. Doesn't feel satisfactory. How do you all manage? thanks!
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> From: "The Plumtree"
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> 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.
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> Marti
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>> 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?
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>> anyone clear this up for me???
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> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:11:58 -0500
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> This sounds exactly like the middle school in which I used to work ( in Texas) - just a few struggling kids with no access to special services because of the "wealth" of the neighborhood.
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> We were configured into teams with four or five teachers per team. In sixth grade, all students had a 45 minute reading class and a 45 minutes language arts (writing) class. One year, we did a two teacher team with about 50 kids. That was good for the slower kids just because they only had to deal with the expectations of two teachers and there was much integration.
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> We had a talented and gifted class (required by district policy)for those who qualified and some students were required to take an extra remedial reading class in 7th and 8th grade, when only 45 minutes of lang. arts was required. No hard core ability grouping... and I believe that is why our students were successful. (However, math was ability grouped:-(.) ?
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> We had one teacher who was the "at-risk" teacher. She worked with students in her classroom after they had participated in a whole class lesson. Teams decided which students used this service. After the teacher had taught the whole group part of the lesson, students went to this room for assistance with independent work.
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> Good luck.
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> Cathy
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> My team of teachers and I have been discussing a relatively small group of
> students who are failing in most if not all academic areas. These students do
> not qualify for special education services. We are not a Title 1 School and
> we don't have a literacy coach or any push in / pull out services for students
> who do not have an
> IEP.WE are the on;y middle school in our district and we serve about 750
> students in 6 - 8.So what do you all do in your schools?
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> Does anyone one have self contained sixth grade?
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> Any middle schools leveled or ability grouped?
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> Anyone hire special folks to work with at risk students?
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> Any thoughts or words of wisdom appreciated.
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> June in KY
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> From: Patricia Kimathi
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> I use to use Cunningham's work. What books are you referring to?
> Pat K
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> "to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night
> and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest
> battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
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> On Nov 17, 2007, at 1:14 PM, The Plumtree wrote:
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>> 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.
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