[MOSAIC] Basal in Readers Workshop?

[Laura Lindover]

We don't use Basel readers. However, I would love to hear if anyone  
has any blackline masters for making connections during reading and  
assessment masters that they find good.

Thanks, Laura
On 23-Feb-08, at 6:08 PM, Wendy Jensen wrote:

> We use the Houghton Mifflin basal but I use a reader's workshop  
> approach in my second grade classroom teaching the comprehension  
> strategies you mention. (Reading With Meaning and Mosaic of Thought  
> changed my teaching life!)  I don't use the basal stories in the  
> order they are presented.  I try to find how (if at all) some of  
> them would work to model a particular strategy.  I even kept some  
> of my old basals because I used some of those stories to teach the  
> comprehension strategies.  Just last week, I modeled inferencing by  
> making predictions with the story Ruby the Copycat from our old  
> basal.  I read aloud and stopped at one point and had all students  
> predict and tell the thinking behind their prediction.  Then we  
> shared our predictions and read the rest of the story.  Our  
> discussion was really great about our thinking behind the  
> prediction.  The next day the students read the story with a  
> partner to practice some fluency strategies.  I use the basal a lot  
> for partner reading and sometimes even small groups.  I don't use  
> the stories in order and I don't read them all...but I'm using the  
> basal, which I'm supposed to do!  It's worked for me so far!
>
> Wendy/2nd/IA
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ckmet at mail.usf.edu<mailto:ckmet at mail.usf.edu>
>   To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email  
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>   Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 6:58 PM
>   Subject: [MOSAIC] Basal in Readers Workshop?
>
>
>   Hi everyone,
>
>   My administrator decided in the beginning of the year that it was  
> okay for
>   us to forgo our purchased basal series (Open Court) and only use
>   literature in our readers workshop (woo hoo!!). Flash forward to  
> now and
>   we are told that we must use them, whether it be for phonics,  
> literature,
>   etc. . . basically just use them, all this money was spent on  
> them ("what
>   we're supposed to do" is changed at least twice a year, so you  
> can imagine
>   our frustration!).
>
>   Can anyone give me any advice or pointers or how they use their  
> basal in
>   their classroom in conjunction with quality literature? We  
> structure our
>   readers workshop based on comprehension strategies (i.e September  
> we work
>   on making connections etc.)If anyone out there, uses Open Court  
> and a
>   readers workshop setting, that would even be more helpful.
>
>   Thank you!
>
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