[LIT] building background knowledge...and Caroline

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In a message dated 7/4/2007 12:36:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
mrshannan6th at gmail.com writes:

I  totally agree with you about the nipping away of the reading time.   I
finally got tired of dealing with that also.  I got this suggestion  from
another list:  rather than dividing my DAY into the parts of a  workshop, I
divide my week.


wow kim....guess what?  that is exactly what we are doing in my  school this 
year.  i think i mentioned before that i am working with  another reading 
teacher and when we started to meet, we decided that the biggest  challenges our 
kids face is consistency.  we deal with the lowest reading  levels in our high 
school.  any time i changed the warm-up, so many of them  got so flustered.  i 
know my ADD kids would (and other challenged  students...many do not like 
change) but I was amazed at how many of my other  students really did well with a 
routine.  so, the first thing we did...we  set up the curriculum for each day 
of the week.  i am hoping this will help  all of my students settle in 
faster.  :)
 
 
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