[MOSAIC] what good readers do

[Patricia Kimathi]

Debra
I love this.  Did he say anything else that you can share.  I am  
changing everything that says Good Readers to Deep Readers on Tuesday.
Pat K

"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."

e.e. cummings

On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:47 PM, Debra wrote:

> Rosie, I can't add anything to the list Deb gave you, but I will say  
> one
> thing about this.  I began my Readers Workshop several years ago after
> attending professional development with Sharon Taberski and Kathy  
> Collins of
> Teachers College of NY.  It was excellent training and I followed their
> language with my kids of talking about what "good readers" do.  Then  
> last
> summer I heard Peter Johnston, author of Choice Words.  He emphasized  
> that
> when we tell kids what "good readers" do, we are sending the message  
> that
> there are good and bad readers and the students who are weaker readers  
> or
> struggling will label themselves as bad readers.  He advocated against  
> using
> the phrase "good readers" so this year I have pushed myself to  
> rephrase that
> as "deep readers" and I talk about what we do when we read deeply.   
> This
> actually made a lot of sense to me because, as I tell the kids, I don't
> always read deeply.  Sometimes I scan, as with the newspaper often.   
> This
> approach has worked so well for me that next year I'm going to change  
> my
> ant-themed classroom to an ocean theme to go with the "deep readers."
>
>
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