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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

More Skills, Strategies, and Behaviors

List of skills and strategies from Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6.
by Franki Sibberson & Karen Szymusiak (subheadings mine).

Identity:

Knowing yourself as a reader.
Choosing books to match individual needs.
Having conversations in a community of readers with an increasing level of sophistication about different types of texts and reading experiences.

Perseverance:

Using skills and strategies to get through the hardest sections of a text.
Having the skills to get through a text that is not interesting.
Sustain interest and understanding throughout a challenging text.
Trusting that texts that aren't immediately engaging might have value.

Flexibility

Reading a variety of texts with a repertoire of tools for working through different text conventions, formats, and features.
Using strategies flexibly for different kinds of texts.

Comprehension

Understanding complex meaning.
Reflecting on thinking and monitoring strategies and behaviors.
Changing thinking while reading to revise predictions and clarify understanding.
Keeping track of characters.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Summer Reading

More choices for summer reading after I finish the genre challenge.

Horn Book Fanfare winners.

Planet Esme's "Read-Aloud Resuscitation: Must Reads by the time you're 13"

Nancie Atwell's Center for Teaching and Learning, Kids Recommend page

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Number Talks: Helping Children Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies, Grades K–5

3 computational Goals
accuracy (self explanatory - often the sole focus)
efficiency the ability to choose an appropriate, expedient strategy for a specific computation problem
flexibility the ability to use number relationships with ease
(I would add a fourth, communication.)

tip: with weekly fluency tests, ask students to solve all problems 2 ways.