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Summary: the best and the brightest
Review: A compelling analysis of teaching comprehension. IF this is is the author of grief dancers, then it is is definitely worth buying and keeping by your favorite reading table for at least a year - there are too many powerful concepts in here to absorb in less time than that.
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Summary: Absolute must for ALL English/ Language Arts Teachers
Review: But don't stop there. ALL teachers need to read this book. Provides the perfect explanation and strategies for teaching comprehension to upper level students. Fits perfectly with the new Utah State Core for English! I've read it twice and plan to read it again so that I can build each year in the way I use the strategies.
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Summary: Powerful presentation of comprehension strategies
Review: Elin Keene uses a practical format to bring home the effect of difficult text on the early reader. Each of her chapters presents a different comprehension strategy. She opens the chapter with a text that was difficult for her--and it will be difficult for YOU! Then she models how the strategy may be taught and understood.It was uncanny the connections that the book causes the reader to make as a reading teacher. In one chapter she began with a poem by Codescu on the streets of Chicago. A long -planned trip to Chicago coincided with my reading of this chapter. The poem was difficult to interpret, and I found myself going back to it over and over, and discussing it with my travelling companions. Isn't this what we want our students to do? This book will be my bible for a long time to come.
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Summary: Will help teachers at all levels get readers into deep text.
Review: For years I have tried getting my students to be better readers by focusing on separated skills like main idea, characterization, and sequencing, but I have always been disappointed by how they failed to get into the deep structure of the text. Since reading Mosaic of Thought I have changed my approach and focused on what the authors learned about proficient readers. By using the book as a road map I am having students become aware of what they must do in order to become proficient readers. The authors delineate the key strategies that readers use and then through examples reveal how these strategies can be taught in a classroom setting. For teachers who are wanting to develop higher level thinking in their students this is the book!
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Summary: Best professional book!
Review: I can't recall ever wanting to read a professional text more than once. I almost couldn't wait to finish the book so that I could read it again. I find myself using the strategies they discuss in my own reading and of course, in my student's. I plan to use this text as a handbook for reader's workshop in my class this year.
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Summary: Teach Reading? Then you need this book!
Review: I first read, Mosaic of Thought in a Literature Circle and I was impressed with the book and began using the terms with my students. Mosaic stresses that we need to teach children what good readers do when they read. Good readers make connections with the text. They make text to text connections, text to self connections, and text to world connections. Teachers need to model the connections they make while they read and encourage their students to do the same. This book really made me think about how I read and what I DO while I read. After reading Mosaic, I suggest you read Strategies That Work.
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Summary: I'd give it more stars if I could
Review: I'm shocked to see some of the bad reviews for this book, which has been one of my all-time favorites for helping my daughter improve her reading comprehension. I'm a parent who read this book at the recommendation of another parent, and I didn't find it particularly hard to follow -- certainly not in comparison to other books I've read that were aimed at professionals. In fact, this is one of the few books I've read to get information to help my kids that was also a satisfactory reading experience for me as well. The excerpts are thought-provoking while also nicely illustrating the authors' points. The new reading textbooks being used in our school district utilize the same research and take the same approach as the authors of this book describe, and it's been great to be a little "ahead of the curve" in understanding why reading is being taught this way. This is not a book to be afraid of. I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Outstanding book for teaching comprehension strategies.
Review: If you are a teacher and can only afford one professional book this year, this is the one! It is an easy read, yet offers one of the best set of guidelines I've ever seen for teaching students that greatly needed skill of interacting with text. You'll love the pieces of literature that start each chaper, the authors' personal anecdotes, and the very practical guidelines for teaching. I couldn't put it down and have probably sold 20 copies in two weeks for the publisher. I am a language arts coordinator for a large school district and see MANY professional books each year. This is the best in a long time.
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Summary: Excellent reference material
Review: In terms of a theoretical learning/teaching perspective, I think it is an excellent book. If one wants to truly understand what the authors of "Mosaic," are trying to convey in a concrete manner, I suggest you also read "Strategies that work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding. "Strategies that Work," really allows one to get a "hands on " perspective of the theory which is taught in "Mosaic."
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Summary: Excellent reference material
Review: In terms of a theoretical learning/teaching perspective, I think it is an excellent book. If one wants to truly understand what the authors of "Mosaic," are trying to convey in a concrete manner, I suggest you also read "Strategies that work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding. "Strategies that Work," really allows one to get a "hands on " perspective of the theory which is taught in "Mosaic."
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