Comments on: Notes from Ellin Keene’s “The Intricacies of the Mind” http://hickstro.org/2007/03/13/notes-from-ellin-keenes-the-intricacies-of-the-mind/ Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:33:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Molly Clark http://hickstro.org/2007/03/13/notes-from-ellin-keenes-the-intricacies-of-the-mind/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 Molly Clark Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:23:42 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2007/03/13/notes-from-ellin-keenes-the-intricacies-of-the-mind/#comment-1219 I totally agree with your view of comprehension. I am a learning support teacher K-3. This past year I experimented with 2 3rd grade classes. I had identified children with learning disabilities in reading in both classes. One class I kept the children in their regular ed classroom and I went into the class and taught them along with their classmates. The other group of identified children came out of their classroom for reading instruction. Both groups were assessed using the DRA test. We discovered that the results of the DRA test did not correlate with the end of the year PSSA tests. WE were basically asking the children to retell to be placed on a certain level with the DRA tests. -The class I went into , we did much more indepth comprehension strategies, we were not satisfied with just retelling. These children scored higher on the PSSA tests than the children who were taught how to retell and therefore scored higher on the DRA test. I am looking forward to hearing you speak on July 23rd in Drexel Hill, MOlly Clark I totally agree with your view of comprehension. I am a learning support teacher K-3. This past year I experimented with 2 3rd grade classes. I had identified children with learning disabilities in reading in both classes. One class I kept the children in their regular ed classroom and I went into the class and taught them along with their classmates. The other group of identified children came out of their classroom for reading instruction. Both groups were assessed using the DRA test. We discovered that the results of the DRA test did not correlate with the end of the year PSSA tests. WE were basically asking the children to retell to be placed on a certain level with the DRA tests. -The class I went into , we did much more indepth comprehension strategies, we were not satisfied with just retelling. These children scored higher on the PSSA tests than the children who were taught how to retell and therefore scored higher on the DRA test.

I am looking forward to hearing you speak on July 23rd in Drexel Hill, MOlly Clark

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