Re: Language! Program by Sopris West

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I am interested in hearing from other high school teachers that
use the LANGUAGE! program. What have been your experiences? Did
you find it hard to get buy in from your students?

Sam J.--have you reached out to Sopris West to talk with someone
with product knowledge?

Mary

On 11/24/10, Mary wrote:
> On 11/11/10, Sam J wrote:
>> I am looking for other high school teachers who are actually
>> using this program.
>>
>> I have been using piecemeal curriculum for my remedial
>> reading class which I and my students liked- Phonemic
>> Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Reading Skills, Comprehension
>> Skills, etc. My students were comfortable with my set up
>> and have been balking at the Language program even though it
>> teaches the same skills.
>>
>> This year the entire BOCES region adopted Language, but most
>> schools are using it in middle school.
>>
>> Here are my questions about the program:
>>
>> How do you get high school kids to buy into the program,
>> which they think is way too babyish?
>>
>> How do you deal with constantly flipping from book to
>> resource page to interactive text, etc.?
>>
>> Thanks for input
 

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