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Subject :Re:Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis..
2013-01-31 05:54:16
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Professional Literature Discussions
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Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
I love this book, and can certainly relate to the issue of time when teaching strategies. I agree that we must take the time to make "what is implicit, explicit." (p. 20) The modeling portion of the gradual release of responsibility model is critical. For too long we have "told" kids what to do instead of "showing" them. Our modeling needs to take place throughout the school year and across all content areas. I am enjoying the many activities that are suggested in the book. Chapter 4 of the second edition offers options for explicit instruction. Why not choose one and take it for a spin!  |
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Subject :Re:Writing Good Text-Based Questions..
2012-01-17 03:44:48
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Writing Good Text-Based Questions
Working with Sandra Cisnero's "Beautiful and Cruel" from House on Mango Street. Trying to figure out if "What clues provide us information about the narrator's cultural background" is a good text-based question. Is "cultural background" too elusive? Does it require too much background knowledge to answer this question? What do you think? (Text is attached) |
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Subject :Writing Good Text-Based Questions..
2012-01-16 10:49:49
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I'm working on a "close reading unit" and would like to collaborate with others around the process of formulating good text-based questions. Please share your experiences and comments as I make posts about my process here! |
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Subject :Inferring Mini Lessons..
2010-12-06 09:21:11
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Subject :Assessments..
2010-10-04 10:30:37
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Issues in Reading Workshop
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Another issue that I think workshop teachers are faced with is assessment. By virture of being workshop teachers, we understand and value the need for ongoing assessment but the problem we face is translating observations and student interaction and partipation into report card grades. The information and data we collect is narrative and organic. Quantifying it with a number or letter grade can be difficult. What are you doing to address (or circumvent) this issue? |
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Subject :Fitting it all in..
2010-10-04 10:27:10
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One of the issues that comes up a lot as someone who trains teachers how to implement the reading workshop is the issue of time. How can we fit it all in? Knowing that we need to teach a mini lesson, do a read aloud, make time for small group instruction AND conferences, and have time at the end for share, it sometimes feels like there just isn't enough time. For middle school and high school teachers, this problem becomes even bigger as they are trying to work within 43 minute periods. Our committment to good teaching forces us to make time for what we know is important but I would like to hear from teachers "in the trenches." How do you schedule your time? How do you fit it all in? |
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Subject :Re:Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident..
2010-08-15 03:12:22
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Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident teaching?
Subject :Re:Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident teaching?
I remember when I first started teaching, I was a little mystified by the term "higher level thinking." I used it freely but I don't think I quite understood what it meant. Inferring is higher level thinking and as a beginning teacher, I was never sure how to teach it. In fact, I'm not sure I understood it myself. I did a lot of work at the end of last year on teaching comprehension with some second graders that I was working with. If you want some ideas and tips for how to teach inferring, check out the photo gallery on this site. Go to free resources, photo gallery, comprehension, inferring. |
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Subject :Re:Guided Reading..
2010-08-15 02:59:28
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Guided Reading
My thinking and learning about guided reading vs. strategy groups is evolving. I am currently reading Teaching Reading is Small Groups by Jennifer Serravallo. She really gets to the heart of strategy groups--what they are and how they work. I am beginning to synthesize my research about small group instruction and I have come to understand that guided reading is about helping kids synthesize the many things that we want them to understand about the reading process: thinking within, beyond, and about the book. We select the text and provide the support they need to be able to read that text so that when we send them out to read independently, they will be armed with what they need to be able to read self-selected books. In stategy groups, the strategy is the focus. It's like a mini lesson for a small group of kids. Kids can be reading different books at different levels. I just learned about another title that I think I might get to help couch my thinking about this line of inquiry: More Than Guided Reading: Finding the Right Instruction Mix. Has anybody read it? |
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Subject :Re:Getting Ready for the School Year..
2010-08-15 02:36:00
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What are you doing to get ready for the beginning of the school year?
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Getting Ready for the School Year
Now it's August and not just the beginning of August, it's smack dab in the middle! This means that the school year is imminent and this is when I start to feel all kinds of pressure to organize and get ready for the year. This year, my work will have a strong reading focus and as I prepare for the professional development work I will be doing with teachers, I am thinking about lines of inquiry. What are the big questions that you are looking to investigate with this year's crop of students? What do you want to know more about so you can get better? |
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Subject :Re:Guided Reading..
2010-07-27 12:59:20
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Still thinking and learning about the difference between strategy groups and guided reading groups. Anybody care to weigh in on this discussion? |
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Subject :Re:Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis..
2010-07-27 12:56:54
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Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
I must admit, this discussion feels a little one sided, but my study group had another meeting today to talk about Harvey and Goudvis' book Strategies that Work. One of the points that we discussed at length was connections. I found it surprising that even in their updated version of this book they only dedicate one paragraph to the biggest problem with making connections: inane connections that don't bring readers deeper into the book. I feel like teachers often applaud every little connection that kids make: I have a dog. My birthday's in February. Stuff like that. Stuff that makes us go, "so what?" The point of making connections is to make a reading experience more meaningful and we have to get into the habit of asking kids, "why does that connection matter? How does that help you understand this book better?" Otherwise, connections are just words. I think we need to be shouting from the rafters about this issue. The practice of making connections caught on like wildfire. Now that everybody's doing it, we need to really get everybody thinking about how they can do it better. |
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Subject :Getting Ready for the School Year..
2010-07-16 06:56:16
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Subject :Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis..
2010-07-14 05:21:58
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Reading Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Our group met this week to discuss Strategies that Work. I find I'm doing a lot of thinking about how "readers weave a variety of strategies together to make sense of text." As a staff developer, I often see teachers who start the year with making connections. For the first six weeks of school, they work on connections and then the move into say, for example, visualization. As a teacher, pacing is always hard. I find I often struggle with how much time I should spend on something before moving on. When we make the decision to stick with one strategy for an extended period of time, we are working toward mastery. However, our understanding and application of reading strategies is always a work in progress and if we chunk strategy instruction in the same way we chunk units of study, I don't feel that our students we know enough quickly enough. Harvey and Goudvis write, "we introduce the strategies one at a time but quickly move on to introduce additional strategies so that kids build a repertoire of strateiges and use them flexibly to understand what they read." I like this thinking, but I am still perplexed by time. What is "quickly?" How much time should we spend on each strategy? What does the ebb and flow of a school year of strategy instruction look like? |
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Subject :Guided Reading..
2010-06-08 08:49:47
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I am on a quest to become a more informed guided reading teacher. While this topic and approach has been around for a long time, I feel like I don't always do it as well as I should. One of the big questions I have is what is the difference between guided reading and strategy groups? I recently finished reading Preventing Misguided Reading by Jan Miller Burkins and Melody M. Croft and am currently reading Fountas and Pinnell's book Guided Reading. I find both of these books have more of a primary grade focus and I am thinking that strategy groups are a structure used more often in the intermediate grades. Does anybody have any good recommendations for something that I can read to clarify the subtleties that distinguish strategy groups from guided reading groups? |
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Subject :Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident te..
2010-06-08 08:42:05
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Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident teaching?
Subject :Is teaching students how to infer something that you feel confident teaching?
I've been talking to a lot of the teachers that I work with lately about teaching comprehension, specifically how to teach children to infer. I have noticed a thread in all of our conversations: a lot teachers feel like they know that they should be teaching inferring because they recognize it as a higher level thinking skill but don't know exactly HOW to teach it. Do you feel the same way? What do you feel like you would need to know in order to teach inferring effectively? |
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Subject :Posting Rules and Guidelines..
2010-03-16 09:03:58
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Subject :Copyright Notice..
2010-03-16 08:59:38
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Subject :Basic Member Conduct..
2010-03-16 08:24:32
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