The homepage of this school in Carroll County, Maryland, USA, includes links to several pages that relate to students' thoughts about reading strategies. Also posted at the site are students' thoughts about persistence, decreasing impulsiveness, listening, checking for precision and accuracy, questioning and problem solving, using the senses, and flexibility in thinking. Links to a variety of sites that discuss areas of interest and concern to teachers are included.
Students react to such things as the use of facilitators and observers in a reading group.
The slide show featured at this site includes several screens about metacognition. Special Programs at Marvine Elementary School At Marvine Elementary in Pennsylanvia, USA, teachers begin their regular Reading Workshop sessions with minilessons based on class needs. Students then read self-selected books while teachers confer with individual children to check on their reading strategies, book selections, and comprehension. At the end of the reading session, there is time for sharing. Read about Marvine's implementation of the Reading Workshop at this site, and also about the school's Reading Recovery program for low-achieving first graders.