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by lost my gr.2 book
Aug 30, 2014
I'm returning to second grade after a couple of years teaching 1st and I can't find my Month to Month Second Grade Book. Can someone tell me the word wall words that Cunningham recommended you start with on the word wall? I think 2 of them might be: said, because
Cheryl Sigmon wrote: There is no evidence that ability grouping is necessary for Differentiating Instruction. Here’s how teaching all children to read, write and grow in literacy can be accomplished.
by kteacher271
Apr 1, 2007
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I am very discouraged right now. It seems like Building
Blocks has almost slipped into oblivion! The BB chatboard
is as good as inactive, maybe 1-2 posts a week. And there
is little or no mention of BB on any of the 4 blocks
websites. I have used BB for several years now, I won all
the books and have rea...See More/blockquote>
I am very discouraged right now. It seems like Building
Blocks has almost slipped into oblivion! The BB chatboard
is as good as inactive, maybe 1-2 posts a week. And there
is little or no mention of BB on any of the 4 blocks
websites. I have used BB for several years now, I won all
the books and have read them several times, but at times
(like right now!!) I need a little inspiration, so I go
looking. Finding stuff on the web always gives me new
ideas & a little wind in my sails, but it seems like what
used to be out there about BB is gone, and nothing new is
taking its place.
Is there something going on with BB that I am unaware of?
Do I need to start searching for a new literacy framework
to use that has support available? I love BB, but it sure
seems like it is becoming a little extinct.
Please let me know if you know anything about this!
Thanks!
Stephanie:)
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I'm teaching 4th grade next year and we have a district
required spelling series. I would really like to use
Month-by-Month Phonics for Upper Grades also. Has anyone
else used it with a different spelling series?
by Stephanie
Apr 11, 2007
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Hi Everyone,
Here I go again, wanting to 'tweak' my writing block
organization a bit! I am on five years of 4 blocks, and
each year, I never feel my writing block is organized
enough.
Can you guys provide some suggestions for:
1. How do your children organize their writing notebooks?
I ...See More/blockquote>
Hi Everyone,
Here I go again, wanting to 'tweak' my writing block
organization a bit! I am on five years of 4 blocks, and
each year, I never feel my writing block is organized
enough.
Can you guys provide some suggestions for:
1. How do your children organize their writing notebooks?
I have used a 3 ring binder for several years and divided
it into 3 sections: writing tools, work in progress, and
then completed pieces. No matter what, the notebboks seem
in disarray. How often do your children purge their
notebooks, etc.? I just need some tips!
2. Also, how do you organize your writing centers? I want
to have various graphic organizers I've introduced,
special writing papers, etc at the kiddos fingertips, but
I need some ideas on how to do this without making my
writing center crowded and chaotic.
I would love if some of you would share some ideas! PLEASE!
Thanks a lot,
Stephanie
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The fourth and fifth grade teachers in my school are new
to Big Blocks and are concerned that the making words
activities in the Month By Month Phonics book aren't
systematic enough. Any thoughts?
by Indi School
Apr 13, 2007
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My indpendent school is going to start the process of
implementing curriculum-- which it has never done in 50
years-- so you can imagine the fight from some of the of
the teachers who have been there 15-30 years!!! Well, I
think the 4 blocks would be perfect, as much of it is very
similar to what we already d...See More/blockquote>
My indpendent school is going to start the process of
implementing curriculum-- which it has never done in 50
years-- so you can imagine the fight from some of the of
the teachers who have been there 15-30 years!!! Well, I
think the 4 blocks would be perfect, as much of it is very
similar to what we already do... We already do reading and
writers workshop, and this has been an unpoken curriculum
since the school was founded... much in the big blocks
style, though mini-lessons would be new, because with kids
under about 7 our school does very little whole group
instruction outside of Morning Meeting.
Anyway, I am hoping that this will flow easily into our
progressive classrooms. I don't think anyone at our school
would do 90 minutes of instruction... nor would they want
to be told to do this. As it is now, with a much more
integrated program... I couldn't say how many minutes
people spend on one thing at a time, because we don't break
everything into subjects, at least not in the early
primary. I teach 8-9 year olds (about 3rd grade) and do
break the day by content area, but this only starts
happening at my age. We have very literary kids, but again,
the phonics/spelling aspect of the program is lacking. We
don't do the state testing or any other kinds of formal
assessment, so if this were done, we may find otherwise.
But as it is, I think we have a GREAT program, that just
needs a little tweaking!
Here was my idea... tell me if you think it sounds feasible
with the 4 blocks model...
2-5 Grade classes would have:
Guided Reading grades 2-5 Junior Great Books or other novel
studies using shared inquiry format 40 minutes 2-3 x per
week (We already do JGB, though not as a whole school, the
teachers in these grades adopted and implemented it on
their own without direction from the head of school or
anyone else)
Working with Words: 30 minutes 2-3 days, except 4-5th
classes, which continues with grammar and Greek and Latin
word study
We are also doing Handwriting Without Tears, which I do
daily for about 10 minutes right now, and was thinking of
trying to tie into WWW??
Self-Selected Reading: As usual at daily 30 minutes of
reading + 20 minutes of read aloud (we do this already in
exactly the 4 blocks way!)
Writing: Journals daily 30 minutes about the same as always
at our school, but with whole group mini-lessons 2-3 times
per week (This is equivalent to WW, where the students
write stories of their choice, conference with the teacher,
edit, revise and publish... they go to the school
library... this will not be a major shift at all for us)
1st grade:
30-40 minutes of working with words, free choice that
includes HWT practice pages, working with words activities,
centers???
20 minutes self-selected reading (possibly two 10 minute
times) + read alouds another 10 minutes? 20 minutes guided
reading (broken up throughout day) 20 minutes of journal
with mini-lesson a couple times a week
I think in the 1st grade, the only things that aren't
happening are the mini- lessons with writing (we are very
individualized in this way) and the working with words in
this way. I think right now they play a lot of games and do
some whole group instruction in phonics-- we don't do HF
words right now. Also, we don't do any guided reading
groups at all, which is good, since 4 blocks doesn't
either... but could stand to do more choral, big book and
other kinds of reading. This varies from class to class
right now. Some do it more than others.
I have no idea about Kindergarten, because all of our
classes are combined, so there would be prek-k and k-1...
this is where the 4 blocks seems like it would be sort of
tricky.
THANKS for any help you can give,
Hannah
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