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• Reading Classroom Explorer
• Classroom
  Background
• Listed below are the 6 classrooms used on the RCE
  website. Clicking on the school name (on the
  website) will present background information
  about that particular school.
• Allen Street School Lansing, Michigan
• Benchmark School Media, Pennsylvania
• East Park Elementary School Danville,
  Illinois
• Kamehameha Elementary Honolulu, Hawaii
• Mahalia Jackson Elementary Harlem, New York
• Neal Elementary San Antonio, Texas

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Homepage

• Conference Presentations/Papers about RCE
• Users can access slide presentations and review
  research papers written by members of the
  RCE research study group.
• How do I gain access to RCE?
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  password
• Email the RCE Group
• For questions or general help
• Meet the RCE Group
• Personal descriptions of the RCE research staff

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• Phone
• Email
• Address
• Description of Needs
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• User ID, and
• Password

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Website
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Teacher (voice-over) The first activity after
the school bell rings is Morning Message. The
children and I share news about school and
home. Teacher Any news that anybody wants to
share with me? Any news at home, what's
happening? Nefertiti? Nefertiti My aunt's having
a baby. Teacher Your aunt's having a baby. OK.
Well, I guess we better put that in a new
paragraph, right? We're going to put it . . .
start a new paragraph, cause that's not about
today. That's something that's, you know, it's
going to be happening for awhile. So let's say .
. . Nefertiti (writes Nefertiti's on chalkboard)
Now, watch what I'm putting. Nefertiti's. Why did
I put an apostrophe S? Students It belongs to
somebody. Teacher Because it belongs to
somebody, OK. "Nefertiti's aunt is having a baby"
(writes it on the chalkboard). Students We hate
it when it rains. Teacher We hate it when it
rains. Why? Why do we hate it when it
rains? Student Because it's muddy and
dirty. Alvaro Mud gets on the floor. And mud
gets on the floor too. Teacher You know why I
hate it? I hate it because then you can't go out
in the yard and play, and you have play in the
auditorium. That's why I hate it. (Various
children add why they hate the rain.) Teacher
Wait a second, wait a second, someone's talking.
Someone doesn't agree with hating the rain.
Simiko says she likes the rain. Why do you like
the rain? Turn around and face the class so
people can hear you. Simiko Because most times
when it rains, the people be getting out of the
street, like the crackheads, the people, they be
getting out of the street 'cause the crackheads,
they don't like the rain. Teacher Oh, so you
like it when it rains, it clears the streets.
Harlem Activity Morning Message
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Theme Development THEME LITERATURE-BASED
INSTRUCTION Because of the constant outpouring
of ideas from the children in a KEEP lesson such
as this one, Mrs. Ahuna couldnt possibly make an
extended response to each thing they say. This
bothers some observers, who wonder whether
"children feel left out if what they say goes
unnoticed." A review of the tape reveals that
Mrs. Ahuna does acknowledge the majority of
contributions, if only with a glance or a nod. It
is true, however, that she makes a display of
close attention to some contributions and not
others, and asks further questions or offers
comments that pick up on some contributions but
not others. Being selective in choosing which of
the childrens contributions to focus on is one
of Mrs. Ahunas tools for encouraging less active
members of the group. However, her major purposes
for being selective are regulating the flow of
the discussion and pushing toward the
understandings she wants the group to get from
the lesson.
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