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Linda Starr
Curriculum and Technology Editor
Education World
HI Cathy!
Great article! Thanks for sharing it. As I read it, I thought about my students last year. The flexible grouping really makes the classroom feel like a family, rather than segmented groups. As a matter of fact, my groups (kdg.) were different just during the language arts time. The first reading rotation had groups, then the second one in the same day had different children in the groups. Fluid grouping encourages children to value each other's different learning styles, and helps them understand how to be flexible in their daily lives (more adults certainly could have used this during their school careers).
Marcia
Linda Starr
Curriculum and Technology Editor
Education World
Fri, 15 July 2005 12:44
