tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post4492290671846585677..comments2023-09-08T16:15:00.960-07:00Comments on Reading Sage: Free RTI Reading Intervention Program The Reading Sagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-89799010614739734042013-03-27T07:05:07.384-07:002013-03-27T07:05:07.384-07:00What would Boot Camp look like in a high school se...What would Boot Camp look like in a high school setting??? Same way? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-48563640006208762852010-08-13T16:04:16.099-07:002010-08-13T16:04:16.099-07:00Day Two
Goals, Goals, and More Goals
Our First Go...Day Two<br />Goals, Goals, and More Goals<br /><br />Our First Goals Are Quick!<br /><br />Use a teacher made fluency chart to get a raw word per minute score for each student and set goals using that data. Most of my kids entering 4th grade read 60 words per minute from a third grade passage. We work on building fluency on just one passage at a time to impart confidence and desire to keep going. We will read that passage up to 16 times a day with teacher and student modeling. The kids take the fluency test the next day and some jump up 60-80 words per minute in just one day. You may say this has no real literacy value for the kids. To the students it is an epiphany that hard work and practice can have amazing results! This keeps students excited and even more motivated to do exceptional during Reading Boot Camp!<br /><br />8:45 Morning goals and preview: We set daily, weekly, and monthly goals, with active<br />charting of all data for a strong visual cue of each student's progress. Class and student<br />goals are always set at or above grade level, even for students who are four years below<br />grade level. All class goals are posted in the class and updated regularly as students meet<br />and surpass goals. Daily goals include tasks completed for homework and class work. For<br />intermediate students, we list at least seven daily goals: 1) I will read, analyze, and<br />diagram four poems, and select one to memorize for daily recitation; 2) I will read two<br />short stories and complete vocabulary comprehension exercises; 3) I will read two<br />chapters from a grade-level text and write a story map for each; 4) I will write fifteen,kid-friendly sentences with at least six to eight words each using the review vocabulary; 5) I will write one poem in student-selected cursive in my Book of Memories ( a collection of students best work and cherished knowledge); 6) I will learn twenty five new words, ideas, facts, jokes, stanzas, phrases, limericks, rhymes, riddles, antonyms, synonyms, quotes, parables, folktales, myths, fables, and or fairy tales; and 7) I will learnm and have fun! “Try to learn 25 new things everyday at school or at home!” Goals: Students who meet their daily, weekly, and monthly goals can earn time for art lessons, hot cocoa with the teacher, Chinese noodles for lunch, homework passes, and the kids favorite a ten-minute dance party.<br /><br />Sean Taylor M.Ed. Readingsage.comThe Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-6502294798082833392010-08-12T19:26:39.426-07:002010-08-12T19:26:39.426-07:00One Minute Word Wall Drills
During Reading Boot Ca...One Minute Word Wall Drills<br />During Reading Boot Camp<br />Word walls are used daily to build phonemic awareness,word attack skills, and comprehension. Students will read the word walls up to 5 times per day, as needed, at the start of school to reinforce fluency and critical word comprehension. The drills are a quick one-time read through that take about one minute to read the 20-30 words with a few reminders of the words meaning. Ask students to set the pace and use the pointer to guide students. Students with attention problems do well with this task.Remember this is a super-fast drill to build fluency and word attack and cursory comprehension. <br />Sean Taylor M.Ed. Readingsage.comThe Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-23800902038380112622010-08-12T19:18:47.926-07:002010-08-12T19:18:47.926-07:00BY HENRY SUZZALLO.
The fairy tale has a place in t...BY HENRY SUZZALLO.<br />The fairy tale has a place in the training of children which common sense and a sympathetic attitude toward childhood will not deny. Some rigid philosophers, who see no more of life than is to be found in logical science, condemn the imaginative tale. They regard the teaching of myths and stories as the telling of pleasant lies, which, if harmless, are wasteful. What the child acquires through them, he must sooner or later forget or unlearn.<br />HENRY SUZZALLO. 1916 “A STUDY OF FAIRY TALES”The Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-90455365849095199362010-08-12T19:16:36.982-07:002010-08-12T19:16:36.982-07:00BY HENRY SUZZALLO.
Using FAIRY TALES to Teach Lite...BY HENRY SUZZALLO.<br />Using FAIRY TALES to Teach Literacy!<br />The fairy tale has a place in the training of children which common sense and a sympathetic attitude toward childhood will not deny. Some rigid philosophers, who see no more of life than is to be found in logical science, condemn the imaginative tale. They regard the teaching of myths and stories as the telling of pleasant lies, which, if harmless, are wasteful. What the child acquires through them, he must sooner or later forget or unlearn. Such arguments carry conviction until one perceives that their authors are measuring the worth of all teaching in terms of strictly intellectual products. Life is more than precise information; it is impulse and action. The fairy tale is a literary rather than a scientific achievement. Its realities are matters of feeling, in which thought is a mere skeleton to support the adventure. It matters little that the facts alleged in the story never were and never can be. The values and ideals which enlist the child's sympathy are morally worthy, affording a practice to those fundamental prejudices toward right and wrong which are the earliest acquisitions of a young soul. The other characteristics of the tale--the rhythmic, the grotesque, the weird, and the droll--are mere recreation, the abundant playfulness which children require to rest them from the dangers and terrors which fascinate them. The fairy tale, like every other literary production, must be judged by the fitness of its<br />emotional effects. Fairyland is the stage-world of childhood, a realm of vicarious living, more elemental and more fancy-free than the perfected dramas of sophisticated adults whose ingrained acceptance of binding realities demands sterner stuff. The tales are classics of a particular kind; they are children's classics, artful adaptations of life and form which grip the<br />imaginations of little folks. The diet of babes cannot be determined by the needs of grownups.<br />A spiritual malnutrition which starves would soon set in if adult wisdom were imposed on children for their sustenance. The truth is amply illustrated by those pathetic objects of our acquaintance, the men and women who have never been boys and girls. To cast out the fairy tale is to rob human beings of their childhood, that transition period in which breadth and richness are given to human life so that it may be full and plastic enough to permit the creation of those exacting efficiencies which increasing knowledge and responsibility compel. We cannot omit the adventures of fairyland from our educational program. They are too well adapted to the restless, active, and unrestrained life of childhood. They take the objects which little boys and girls know vividly and personify them so that instinctive hopes and fears may play and be disciplined. While the fairy tales have no immediate purpose other than to amuse, they leave a substantial by-product which has a moral significance. In every reaction which the child has for distress or humor in the tale, he deposits another layer of vicarious experience which sets his character more firmly in the mould of right or wrong attitude. Every sympathy, every aversion helps to set the impulsive currents of his life, and to give direction to his personality. Because of the important aesthetic and ethical bearings of this form of literary experience, the fairy stories must be rightly chosen and artfully told. In no other way can their full worth<br />in education be realized. They are tools which require discrimination and skill. Out of the<br />wisdom of one who knows both tales and children, and who holds a thoughtful grasp on educational purpose, we offer this volume of unusually helpful counsel.<br />HENRY SUZZALLO. 1916 “A STUDY OF FAIRY TALES”The Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-86901877927948388722010-08-11T17:56:54.645-07:002010-08-11T17:56:54.645-07:008:35 Morning Motivational “Can I get an Hazzah ”: ...8:35 Morning Motivational “Can I get an Hazzah ”: We start every day by ”brain<br />washing” the kids using the old fashion method of classic fairy tales. I share the epic stories of courage, virtue, honor, perseverance, responsibility, duty, fortitude, chivalry, civility, empathy, sacrifice, and most importantly, an exemplary work ethic.<br />Readingsage.com Sean Taylor M.Ed.The Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3496007421871831721.post-88561585510123201942010-08-11T17:01:30.510-07:002010-08-11T17:01:30.510-07:00Reading programs have become a billion dollar indu...Reading programs have become a billion dollar industry and they promise a failing district an average +0.50 extra reading growth in one year. Your district just has to spend $75,000 for a school license, teacher training, and materials and you get +.50 year's progress. My students have achieved the "impossible" for four years and they improved +1.50 AVERAGE in just twenty days. Reading Boot Camp serves one objective -- to teach students that to fail in reading is impossible. We refuse to let failure happen. It is time to slay your doubts and let your students do the 'impossible.'It is time to slay the jabberwocky. No gimmicks, no flash, just rigorous instruction and high goals will do.The Reading Sagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05269503720197163765noreply@blogger.com