January 11, 2011 Today's Assignment

In the computer lab, leave this window and tab open, and go to Word.  Open a document.    This is the icon you will see on the desktop for Word:

 Copy the following questions from here to your word document.  Then type complete answers to the  questions.  Write complete sentences. 


When you are done, PRINT your word document and hand it in to the wire basket.

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 Part 1.  

1.  What did you think about this unit (about using the computer and internet)? Was it worthwhile to you?  Why or why not? 

2. What did you learn that you didn't know before? 

3.  What did you enjoy most from this unit? 

4.  What did you like least? 

5.  What suggestions do you have for me so that future students can have an even better experience?

6.   What else would you like to tell me? 

Part 2.  
Tell about how you used each of the reading strategies as you read from the Internet while working on your celebrity webquest.   Write at least one complete, correct sentence for each.  See the chart below for explanations of the following strategies. See the tab above for more information on fix-up strategies. 

1) Noticing your own thinking


2) Activating and adding to your schema


3) Questioning


4) Making Connections


5) Predicting


6) Visualizing


7) Making Inferences


8) Determining Importance and Summarizing


9) Recognizing Text Patterns


10) Using External Text Features


11) Using Fix-Up Strategies

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When you are done, PRINT your word document and hand it in to the wire basket. 

When you are done, ask to take the attitude survey.

If you have extra time, you may play games at

http://www.fun-with-words.com

Do not go to other sites or programs without asking Ms. Dorsey.

Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies
	Noticing Your Own Thinking  ( Listening to your Inner Voices) When you are “reading,” you should notice whether or not you are really reading and understanding.   I f you couldn’t  tell someone about what you just read, you need to apply one or more of the strategies below. ____________________________________________________
	Activating and Adding to Your Schema (Background Knowledge) Your schema is your background knowledge and experience and how they’re linked together.  The more you have, the better you are able to understand and remember the new things you learn.
	Questioning Strategic readers ask questions before, during, and after reading.
	Making Connections Using schema, the sum total of your background knowledge and experience, helps you make connections.  There are three main kinds of connections readers make:      s Text-to-Self               s Text-to-Text               s Text-to-World
	Predicting Predicting is using information from the text and your own experiences to make guesses about s what the author will say next      s what will happen next        show things will turn out
	Visualizing Visualizing is the ability to make words on a page real and concrete.  It is making a movie in your head.
	Making Inferences (Reading Between the Lines) Inferring allows readers to make their own discoveries without the direct comment of the author.  Clues in the text + Your background knowledge and experience = Inference
	Determining Importance and Summarizing What is important in a text depends on your purpose for reading it.  Strategic readers can identify the main idea or tell what the text is mostly about.  Determining importance includes finding the main idea and the major supporting details for that idea.  You have to determine importance to summarize.
	Recognizing Text Patterns (Internal Text Structures) Text Patterns are the ways the authors organize their writing.  They might organize the information as SEQUENCE, CHRONOLOGICAL, LIST, COMPARE AND CONTRAST, CAUSE AND EFFECT, QUESTION/ANSWER, PROBLEM/SOLUTION,  or DESCRIPTION, or a combination of patterns.
	Using  External Text Features   External Text Features are helps that aren’t just the main body of writing.  They include headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents, sidebars, annotations, italics, etc.
	Fix-Up Strategies include other things you can do when you’re not comprehending what you read.   Fix-up strategies include rereading (in a different way), reading ahead, reading aloud, adjusting your reading rate, dealing with problem words, checking other resources, and asking for help.   To deal with a problem (unknown) word, you can check it for familiar word parts (prefixes, suffixes, roots, small words), use context clues,  or look it up.

last updated by C. Dorsey  8-18-10