Part+I+-+Task+List

=***Note:**= =**Task I meeting took place on October 27.**= =**We will soon cover Task II material on December 1.**= =**We will add another session in January to complete**= =**our third face to face meeting with information on Task III.**= =**There will also be a make-up date scheduled at a later time**= =**for anyone who misses one of these scheduled sessions .**=

__Read and Respond: TASK 1__

** Part 1- Read Chapter 1, 2, and 3. Our face to face share session will be on  **October 20th** for this segment.
Ch. 1-Creating a New Mosaic Ch. 2-Changing Times Ch. 3-Mindful Reading: Monitoring and Revising Comprehension Respond to one of the following questions and respond to two or more of your colleagues posts on the “Mosaic” wiki space: To add your response you click on the discussion tab at the top of this box. Remember to click on notify me tab to get an update when a colleague writes a response, too. Chapter 1 On page 7 Ellin asks: How can we rest until all our children have immersed themselves in a literary world that encourages and teaches them to read, reread, invent, explore, question, and imagine? What can you do in your classroom to motivate children to want to read, reread, invent, explore, question and imagine? Chapter 2 On page 36 Questions and Answers What about teaching the comprehension strategies across the curriculum? If you read in science, math, and social studies, don’t you use the same thought processes? Respond to the idea that predicting, estimating and hypothesizing are all sort of the same thing. Chapter 3 On page 63-65 are listed the Key Ideas for Monitoring Meaning. Look closely at the list and pick out the three you think are the most important for your children to master this year with you as their guide. Tell what your three top picks are and how you will work to make accomplishing those goals a reality for your class.