Friday, April 29, 2011

1. Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and Fill out the Reading Log


Fluency Practice
About the Website Evaluations and Research Notes
PowerPoint Pointers

Inner voices, if time



Your website evaluations are due by the end of class on May 3.
Your PowerPoint is due on May 19. 

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

1. Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and Fill out the Reading Log


Crossword for Computer Literacy
Inner voices
Fluency set-up


Your website evaluations are due by the end of class on May 3.


Here are some of the search engines I mentioned:

Search Engines and Databases

• Try iSeek.com   If you can't access it otherwise, you can get to it through myaccess.com, using your student login from our school. 
• A search engine for students:  http://www.sweetsearch.com/ 
• This has a different format.  You see several results in the form of pages and can move among them using arrows. http://www.redz.com/
• This one is even more unusual: http://search-cube.com/
• You can collect resources at  http://middlespot.com/search.php 
•  Put together search terms with this: http://www.boolify.org/

> Please note that Google is not a website. It is a search engine to find websites. You can not use Google (or other search engines or databases) as a source for your projects.Because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, make sure you carefully check any facts you find there.  Of course, your other sources may also be inaccurate.  That is one of the reasons we use several sources.

Lexile Levels -- SRI Test

When we take the SRI test in the computer lab, the program determines a lexile level for the student.  The student level matches him or her with books that have also been leveled.

Lexile levels

950 to 1025 is At Grade Level for seventh grade,  Proficient, Norm 49-62%


Below 550 is Below Grade Level, At Risk, Norm 1-6%
550 to 750 is Below Grade Level, Basic 1, Norm 6-21%
750 to 850 is Below Grade Level, Basic 2, Norm 21-34%
850 to 950 is At Grade Level, Low Proficient, Norm 34-49%
950 to 1025 is At Grade Level, Proficient, Norm 49-62% 
1025 to 1100 is At Grade Level, High Proficient, Norm 62-76%
1100 and above is Above Grade Level, Norm 76% and above

Note: Lexile Levels are being readjusted for the new National Core Curriculum.
http://www.lexile.com/using-lexile/lexile-measures-and-the-ccssi/

To learn more, and to find books that match your reading level, go to lexile.com.

originally published 1-29-11

Monday, April 25, 2011

1. Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and Fill out the Reading Log

2. Reliablility?

Domain Names

3. Review of Website Evaluations and Research Notes
    How to Make a Bibliography

4.  Computer Lab 212  to continue filling out Website Evaluations and Research Notes.

Here is our class wiki where you may sign up for a celebrity and complete your website evaluations: http://reading72011r3.pbworks.com
As soon as you receive a username and password from Ms. Dorsey, you will be able to log in. 
 
We spend most of our day today in the computer lab to continue filling out Website Evaluations and Research Notes.
Make a bibliography entry for each URL after you have done the website evaluation.

Website evaluations are due at the beginning of class May 3.

Your PowerPoints are due May 19.
See our class calendar below for days we will be in the computer lab.

Reliability: 

Ouida Sebestyen  -- How reliable would each of these sources be?

1.    http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/professional-development/childlit/sebestyen.html
2. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/164547.Ouida_Sebestyen
3. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/sebestye.htm
4. http://www.jacketflap.com/persondetail.asp?person=119492
5. http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X   
6.  
7. Read this customer review from the Amazon link above.
   

   http://www.amazon.com/Words-Heart-Ouida-Sebestyen/dp/044041346X 

   (or, if that doesn't work: Customer Review from Amazon.com

Using External Text Structure

http://www.dhmo.org/ 


http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/sightings.html

Boring Teacher Stuff 
More Teacher Stuff
And More  
Google Lesson on Reliability
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/penguin.asp

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and Fill out the Reading Log

1.  How to Make a Bibliography
2. Review of Website Evaluations and Research Notes
        Primary and Secondary Sources
3.  Computer Lab 201  to continue filling out Website Evaluations and Research Notes.


Here is our class wiki where you may sign up for a celebrity and complete your website evaluations: http://reading72011r3.pbworks.com
As soon as you receive a username and password from Ms. Dorsey, you will be able to log in. 
 
We spend most of our day today in the computer lab to continue filling out Website Evaluations and Research Notes.
Make a bibliography entry for each URL after you have done the website evaluation.

Website evaluations are due at the beginning of class May 3.

Your PowerPoints are due May 19.
See our class calendar below for days we will be in the computer lab.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Today is the first day of our new rotation.

Welcome to the students coming from Miss Gadd's class!

Make sure you have a thumb drive to bring to class each time. 


1. Bell-Ringer: Select your own seat for today.  Complete the Reading Strategy Pre-Assessment.



2. Introduction to this classroom:
What we'll do this term:
Preview the term assignment -- PowerPoints/WebSite Evaluations
http://afcelebritywebquest.blogspot.com/

View Sample PowerPoint -- Your end product

See examples at (Jack Johnson.ppt ) and emma watson example.ppt 
  

Here is our class wiki where you may sign up for a celebrity and complete your website evaluations: http://reading72011r3.pbworks.com
As soon as you receive a username and password from Ms. Dorsey, you will be able to log in. 
 
We will go to the computer lab to begin using our class wiki and to select a celebrity for you to research.

Website evaluations are due at the beginning of class May 3.

Your PowerPoints are due May 19.
See our class calendar below for days we will be in the computer lab.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Last Day of this Rotation

Bring favorite books, treats, and pillows, etc. so you can make yourself comfortable and read, read, read.

This page originally published April 1, 2011.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Bell-Ringer:  Individual Reading and Reading Log
Use this log if you miss class to make-up your missed reading time: Reading Log 7 Make-Up Log

Fluency Practice

3. Reading Strategies
      Reading Actively
      Schema! = Background knowledge
            desert?
            other things?
     Predictions
     Making inferences?  This is the site with riddles:   http://www.philtulga.com/Riddles.html
     The more you know, the more you'll learn.      

Introducing a variety of books and other reading materials!

Originally Published 4/1/11

Monday, April 4, 2011

Finish grading PowerPoints.  If you got a poor grade, please finish your PowerPoint and show it to me today.

Write your End of Rotation Reflection on the class wiki:  http://cavereading72011r2.pbworks.com/w/page/37079924/Reading-7-2011-Rotation-2

Reading, of course!
Use this log if you miss class to make-up your missed reading time: Reading Log 7 Make-Up Log
If there is time left, we'll do fluency practice.

Originally published 4-1-11.

This rotation ends April 8, and you will be moving on after that to Mrs. Fugal's classroom.
Here's another sort of rotation. Click on the image. 

Nothing is moving, but. . . . . http://www.snafu.com/Rotation.html

Avoid the Summer Slide!

Avoid the Summer Slide!

No, not this type of slide. 

Plan and prepare now to avoid the summer slide in skills you've been practicing in school. 


Make sure you have books to read -- especially books that challenge you just enough to be enjoyable and to stretch your reading muscles -- and set aside time to read during the summer. 

Types of Books to Read

Scary?    Silly?   Tear-jerkers?  Exciting?