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List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Unsubscribe: Message-Id: 6Traits Digest #51 - Tuesday, August 10, 1999 Re: 6Traits- examples 1, 2, 3 organization by "Gray" Re: 6Traits- examples 1, 2, 3 organization by "Kerry Leggett" Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy by "Nancy Kampfe" book review site by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Poetry site by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Poetry site by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> e-mail by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> More thanks by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy by "Shandra Beer" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- examples 1, 2, 3 organization From: "Gray" Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:45:13 -0400 #1 -- (Thor) -- We gave it a 3. It has attempts at sequencing and transitions that sometimes work. #2 -- (Marshmallows) -- 2 becoming a 3??? We weren't sure about this one. We didn't think it was strong so we went with the lower #s. #3 -- (Aunt) -- either a 5 or 6 We liked this one. Roberta Gray Grade 2, Geneva, Ohio rgray7@alltel.net gray_ro@mail.neomin.ohio.gov Sherri Hurst Gr.2 Geneva, Ohio Jackie Meehan Gr. 2 Geneva, Ohio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- examples 1, 2, 3 organization From: Kerry Leggett Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:38:12 +0800 Susan, somehow I have missed the examples for the organisation trait, can you help me please!? thank you KerryL > > Kerry Leggett 2/18 Hinderwell St Scarborough 6019 Western Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy From: Nancy Kampfe Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:37:57 -0700 Susan, is the "house is a house" poem stanza we saw the entire poem? I'd = like to use it with my high schoolers, but don't know where I could find the = whole text. Thanks, Nancy Kampfe, Bennett Co, Martin, SD/junior-senior English = teacher ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: book review site From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:52:27 -0700 The Book Review Forum, University of Illinois Includes children's lit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Poetry site From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:49:53 -0700 LESSON: The Poetry Connection SUBJECT: Language Arts / Social Studies GRADES: 3-8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Poetry site From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:54:11 -0700 LESSON: The Poetry Connection SUBJECT: Language Arts / Social Studies GRADES: 3-8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:43:23 -0700 At 07:37 AM 8/10/99 -0700, you wrote: >Susan, is the "house is a house" poem stanza we saw the entire poem? I'd like >to use it with my high schoolers, but don't know where I could find the = whole >text. Thanks, Nancy Kampfe, Bennett Co, Martin, SD/junior-senior English teacher No, that was just a small part. It's a book, titled _A House is A House For Me_, by Mary Ann Hoberman. Check in the children's section of the public library, or an elementary library near you, or in the children's section of the book store. When I taught older students, we would often use a book like this to learn a lesson, and my students frequently wrote books for the primary students. We pair up at our school with reading buddies. This was one way to make = it more acceptable to my older students to use picture books. I also discovered that many of the children in my teaching area did not have the background in Dr. Seuss and other early childhood literature that I would have presumed them to have. They actually *enjoyed* listening to those = books! If you teach older students, don't neglect the early childhood literature as a teaching tool. For one thing, you can demonstrate your point in a quickly read piece. For another, it can be quite a challenge to a student to try to write in the same style as Dr. Seuss or Jack Prelutsky. Voice lessons, without singing. =3D) Good point, Nancy, and I commend you for thinking of using this with your older students. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: e-mail From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:28:08 -0700 Hello, On top of everything else that's gone on, we are now forced to upgrade memory and HD on my personal computer! I will be more off- than online = for the next couple of days. For the 6 Traits course, if I can figure out what the new e-mail address = is at school, I will mail everything from there tomorrow. I'm using my DH's computer to put up the Conventions rubrics tonight. They should be up tomorrow. I hope. For FQ, see ya when I see ya. =3D) Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: More thanks From: Susan Nixon <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 19:35:25 -0700 Three more people who donated to the list, and whom I may have forgotten = to thank and let know I received their money: Ada Sandra D. Debbie R. Thanks for your help! Susan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy From: "Shandra Beer" Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:00:50 -0700 > THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not = understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3017170850_1233370_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset=3D"US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >If you teach older students, don't neglect the early childhood literature >as a teaching tool. For one thing, you can demonstrate your point in a >quickly read piece. For another, it can be quite a challenge to a = student >to try to write in the same style as Dr. Seuss or Jack Prelutsky. I've wanted to recommend a book to the list for awhile but haven't found = the right time. I found the opportunity today after reading Susan's mail. = You can teach some high level concepts using books where the reading level is not as complicated. The students may be able to grasp the idea a little easier this way. A book that can help you do this is called Using Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices by Susan Hall. There are two = volumes. The second, which I have, includes 31 literary devices listed with 300 = book titles. It is primarily organized by device but the index lists them by author and by title. There is also a small section about curriculum tie = ins for thematic planning. Another section briefly lists books according to artistic styles used in the books. Some of the categories are cartoon, collage, and impressionism. The section that lists books by device even gives you a specific quote = from the book to use as an example to point it out to the students. ( In some cases it helped me learn the literary device.) A few examples that you may be surprised about: Bedtime for Frances can teach inference, A Million Fish ..More or Less can teach hyperbole and The Cat in the Hat teaches not only hyperbole but foreshadowing and imagery. I taught 8th grade for 3 years and I wish I would have had this book back then! As teachers, we are never to old to enjoy a good picture book. = But, somehow it is easy to forget that our students are not too old either. Shandra Beer 2/3 Temecula, CA P.S. I had to order it from the bookstore. They didn't keep it in stock. = Oryx Publishers, ISBN# is 0-89774-849-2 --MS_Mac_OE_3017170850_1233370_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset=3D"US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Re: 6Traits- teaching strategy >If you teach older students, don't neglect the early childhood = literatu=3D re
>as a teaching tool.  For one thing, you can demonstrate your = point=3D in a
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>to try to write in the same style as Dr. Seuss or Jack Prelutsky.

I've wanted to recommend a book to the list for awhile but haven't found = th=3D e right time.  I found the opportunity today after reading Susan's = mail=3D .  You can teach some high level concepts using books where the = reading=3D level is not as complicated.  The students may be able to grasp the = id=3D ea a little easier this way. A book that can help you do this is called = U=3D sing Picture Storybooks to Teach Literary Devices by Susan Hall. =  T=3D here are two volumes.  The second, which I have, includes  31 = lite=3D rary devices listed with 300 book titles.  It is primarily organized = by=3D device but the index lists them by author and by title.  There is = also=3D a small section about curriculum tie ins for thematic planning. =  Anoth=3D er section briefly lists books according to artistic styles used in the = book=3D s.  Some of the categories are cartoon, collage, and = impressionism.
The section that lists books by device even gives you a specific quote = from=3D the book to use as an example to point it out to the students. ( In some = ca=3D ses it helped me learn the literary device.)

A few examples that you may be surprised about:  Bedtime for = France=3D s can teach inference, A Million Fish ..=3D More or Less can teach hyperbole and = The=3D Cat in the Hat teaches not only hyperbole =3D but foreshadowing and ima=3D gery.

I taught 8th grade for 3 years and I wish I would have had this book back = t=3D hen!  As teachers, we  are never to old to enjoy a good picture = bo=3D ok.  But, somehow it is easy to forget that our students are not too = ol=3D d either.

Shandra Beer
2/3
Temecula, CA

P.S.  I had to order it from the bookstore.  They didn't keep it = =3D in stock.  
        Oryx Publishers, ISBN# is = 0=3D -89774-849-2


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