Saturday, July 11, 2009

Other Questions/Comments?

I am sure you may have things that you want to ask everyone! Feel free to creat a new post or make additional comments here!
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4 comments:

  1. ConnieJuly 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM

    I thought the comment on pg. 33 about "curriculum became not a personal option but a carefully honed tool" was interesting. Then continuing onto the next paragraph and page it states that before the 90% goal, "the teacher was an individual provider--adding, improvising, creating the curriculum" and after shifting to using carefully developed curriculum teachers are getting better results than using an eclectic collection of curriculum, no matter how gifted they are individually.
    Even though each grade level has developed their own maps I still feel there might be a lot of inconsistency and variation in what each teacher covers. I do not think we should use a basal program but it sounds to me from reading this book so far that maybe there is a balanced literacy reading program that is aligned to Ohio's state standards that we could use to ensure that we have consistency and continuity throughout the elementary grades.

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  2. Linda MeyerJuly 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM

    I belong to a few Kindergarten online user groups. Many have made reference to the Open Court reading curriculum referred to in Chapter 2. Maybe it's something for us to look into.

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  3. Vickie HoffmanJuly 17, 2009 at 8:10 AM

    This will be our Language Arts adoption year. I would suggest us looking at anything that you hear other teachers like. I know that we will not be getting rid of the guided reading approach, but am hoping that there is something out there to supplement what we are dong in phonics, word work, spelling an other literacy skills.

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  4. belindaJuly 24, 2009 at 9:38 AM

    Vickie...My family and I will be on vacation this coming week and I will catch up with this all the following week. P.S. I know there is a lot of great conversations going on with this book...it is hard for me not to check the blog all the time...have a great week and see you all later. Belinda

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