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greek627
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ReadyGen
basically i'm doing this 
any tips or suggestions to make it work?
i teach 2nd grade and it just doesn't seem like i can make it work :(
we started with charlottes web today. i read the first two chapters. when do i teach the reading skill? the teachers guide is so confusing. anyone else in the same boat?
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Posted 9/16/14 9:32 PM  |
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My2Girlz11
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ReadyGen
I don't know how your school is rolling it out or how serious they want you to follow it. I piloted it last year in my special education class. The kids loved it and I loved it. I read one chapter at a time if it is too long and extend the lesson for two days. I do ask questions while I am reading and the second read is focused just on the pages where the kids can find the answers. I turn some of those close reading questions into short response questions or turn and talks or they can write it on post-its. Some of the discussion questions I may use for homework. The important teaching part is the activity that directly links to the learning objective where they usually have to make the graphic organizer. My school calls it thinking maps. The reading skills are usually the graphic organizer part.
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| Posted 9/18/14 6:03 PM |
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MrsPetro2B
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Re: ReadyGen
Posted by My2Girlz11
I don't know how your school is rolling it out or how serious they want you to follow it. I piloted it last year in my special education class. The kids loved it and I loved it. I read one chapter at a time if it is too long and extend the lesson for two days. I do ask questions while I am reading and the second read is focused just on the pages where the kids can find the answers. I turn some of those close reading questions into short response questions or turn and talks or they can write it on post-its. Some of the discussion questions I may use for homework. The important teaching part is the activity that directly links to the learning objective where they usually have to make the graphic organizer. My school calls it thinking maps. The reading skills are usually the graphic organizer part.
Agreed!! You cannot possibly do every component in one day. You need to meet the objective. Likewise, if you use a lot of their questions and have the kids "get the gist" of every read aloud, your lessons will never be considered "effective" or "highly effective" and the kids get bored. We were allowed to kind of make it our own and determine what components tied in best to the LO and prep for the test. My 3rd graders loved the books last year overall.
I still don't get why 2nd grade has to start with that book. The chapters are so long and difficult for them.
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:15 PM |
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MissJones
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Haha, oh yes...you have to make it your own!!!
Last year, a colleague and I basically rewrote it. We didn't do a second read. Pretty much goes against what ready gen represents. We focus on the skill and then supplement with OTHER books (trust me, last year, we photocopied and scanned books to read on the smart board) since you read 2 stories. We ALWAYS did many questions while reading anyway. We ALWAYS focused on finding the evidence, even BEFORE ready gen. I pick and choose what I'm doing. Some days, I don't do the main lesson, but I do the leveled activities instead.
We never followed the writing. Just went with what the big idea was (narrative, informational piece) and taught it our own way.
We supplemented wtih outside grammar and phonics materials since we think that is important.
We supplemented with outside ASSESSMENTS since those are ridiculous, too.
And we thought Lucy Calkins was wack!
ETA: We had a whole text book system prior to RG. We commented in June how this year, we read basically 12 stories over the course of the year. 12. Over 180 days. But with our old reading program, we probably read over 100. And a variety of texts. And about subjects the kids LOVED. They killed Stellaluna, Make way for Ducklings, and Charlotte's Web. You can't read those books for a month and still love them. It's such a joke.
Sorry, not a convert. I'm pretty intelligent. The teacher's guide is a mess. I can't follow it. The text anthologies are FILLED with errors.
ETA2: I'm in 3rd and I will admit that the texts so far have been enjoyable and we don't stay on them forever. But in first, it was the same book with a supplemental book for weeks and it jumped back and forth was incredibly difficult to follow.
Message edited 9/18/2014 8:21:26 PM.
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:15 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: ReadyGen
Make it your own and do not follow to a T. I never do the writing, just look at the skill and task and teach it my own way. I am teaching first and the skill is retelling. My first graders have been working on putting on a small play of Stellaluna all week, they each have a line, a headband of a bird or bat they made and have practiced. None of which is in the teachers guide...but they are excited and skill accomplished.
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:20 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: ReadyGen
Agree with PP, not reading Stellaluna for a month...done tomorrow after 7 days.
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:21 PM |
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MissJones
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Re: ReadyGen
Posted by Moehick
My first graders have been working on putting on a small play of Stellaluna all week, they each have a line, a headband of a bird or bat they made and have practiced. None of which is in the teachers guide...but they are excited and skill accomplished.
This is awesome to hear!!! THAT'S HIGHLY EFFECTIVE! 
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:22 PM |
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Moehick
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Re: ReadyGen
Posted by MissJones
Posted by Moehick
My first graders have been working on putting on a small play of Stellaluna all week, they each have a line, a headband of a bird or bat they made and have practiced. None of which is in the teachers guide...but they are excited and skill accomplished.
This is awesome to hear!!! THAT'S HIGHLY EFFECTIVE!
Too bad you aren't observing me;)
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:33 PM |
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MrsPetro2B
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Re: ReadyGen
Posted by Moehick
Make it your own and do not follow to a T. I never do the writing, just look at the skill and task and teach it my own way. I am teaching first and the skill is retelling. My first graders have been working on putting on a small play of Stellaluna all week, they each have a line, a headband of a bird or bat they made and have practiced. None of which is in the teachers guide...but they are excited and skill accomplished.
That's a great idea!!!!!
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:41 PM |
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MrsPetro2B
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Re: ReadyGen
ETA2: I'm in 3rd and I will admit that the texts so far have been enjoyable and we don't stay on them forever. But in first, it was the same book with a supplemental book for weeks and it jumped back and forth was incredibly difficult to follow.
Except that bacteria book, that one felt like forever!!! The others were pretty good compared to others. They even liked the book about plant roots.
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| Posted 9/18/14 8:42 PM |
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