September 2004 — Features
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Cybermentoring: An Online Literacy Project in Teacher Education
Immediately, the teacher candidate wrote to the classroom teacher and asked if she could help him decipher the typed story. This was her interpretation of the child's story:
The Colony. One day a leaf cutter ant and her colony, oh did I mention that her name was Christy? She was a warrior and her colony was looking for home. But they couldn't find it. One evening Christy peeked around the bushes. She saw a dragon fly and another dragon fly and you know what I mean. Well what was happening. Then the dragonflies showed them the way home.
Now, the teacher candidate was ready to respond to the student's writing. The response included social acknowledgement, praise, questioning and suggestions.
References
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Johnson, D. 2002. "Electronic Dialoguing in a Preservice Reading Methods Course: A Yearlong Study." Reading Online 6 (1). Online: www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=johnson/index.html.
May, F. 1998. Reading as Communication: To Help Children Write and Read. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Merrill.
Stiggins, R. 1997. Student-Centered Classroom assessment. New York: Macmillian.
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