Friday, January 30, 2015

Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log

Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice
-- Make sure you have the new passage from last time -- "All That Glitters. . . ."!

Activity 3: Begin a pamphlet about Effective Reading

Inside: 

Before Reading Self Check  Study Area   Emotions Level of Difficulty Feeling physically

During Reading

After Reading

Outside  -- Later

Activity 4:  Previewing Pioneer Online Library in the computer lab
Use this worksheet:
Computer Lab Pioneer Assignment.docx 

Go to these databases or collections of databases and links to sites, look up a subject you're interested in, and write a sentence about something you learn from each source.

Lab 223
http://afjh.alpineschools.org/
Resources
Pioneer Online Library
To access the K-12 Pioneer Library from home:

Go to: http://pioneer.uen.org

1.

 World Book Encyclopedia

Select Student

Search your choice of topics.

Go back to K-12 Pioneer Library.

Go to Gale Reference Collection, then to 

2. Biography in Context

Search for a famous person.

3.  InfoTrac Junior Edition

Select one of the Popular Searches

4. Discovering Collection

Or select from the popular topics.

5.  Kids InfoBits

Select a topic.

6. Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Pick a topic.

Look under Featured Viewpoints or Viewpoints

7.  Select one more of the other choices in Gale Reference Collection.

Pick a topic. 

Go back to Pioneer Library Main Page

8. Under Utah Collection, go to Counties of Utah

   Look around -- view a couple of counties.

9.  Deseret Morning News

Find an interesting headline or article

Now look under Additional Library Resources

10.  ALA Websites for Kids

Pick a site to explore


If you have extra time, select any of the other sources on Pioneer to explore. 

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To finish later since we were able to get computer time!
http://www.amazon.com/Gregor-Overlander-Underland-Chronicles-Book/dp/0439678137 A4 to page 10, near the bottom of the page -- "Maybe it could happen. . .. "




A3 needs to read and write about velcro
A4 needs to complete Lewis and Clark and review velcro.


Finding Reliable Sources

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/


Before, During, and After Reading

Problem Solving 

iBrain?  

Before

During

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log

Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice
-- Make sure you have the new passage from last time -- "All That Glitters. . . ."!

Activity 3. Reviewing information about Plagiarism


Review: 

These are the links you will use today.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHungerGamesMovie

http://www.amazon.com/Gregor-Overlander-Underland-Chronicles-Book/dp/0439678137  A4 to page 10,  near the bottom of the page -- "Maybe it could happen. . .. "

 You can't believe everything you read!

A3 needs to read and write about velcro
A4 needs to complete Lewis and Clark and review velcro.


Finding Reliable Sources

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/

Monday, January 26, 2015

These are the links you will use today.

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/



If you have earphones, take them to the lab today.

Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log

Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice
  -- Pick up a new passage!

Activity 3.     Learning about plagiarism  -- We will be in Lab 211.

Part I: 

1. Learning about Plagiarism

2. Receive the document: Plagiarism Computer Exercise

In the computer lab (211) go to cavereading.blogspot.com/
Use the links to get to the places you need to go.

a. Use the link here to go to 

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html#

b. Listen to and read along with the information about plagiarism. (Yes, you may turn on the sound on your computer and use the earphones.)

c. Answer the questions on the worksheet.

On the worksheet you will take a quiz based on this site:

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

If you have extra time, 

Activity 4:  Receive the worksheet for Lewis and Clark – Important Information for Your U.S. History Class Next Year  Go to this site, and fill in the worksheet: 

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/

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Checking your work:  Part II.   Is this Plagiarism? 

Use the link on our class blog to go to a biography for Suzanne Collins.

http://www.biography.com/people/suzanne-collins-20903551?page=1

Mark each of the following with a P for plagiarism or an S for synthesis:

Skim and scan through the biography to decide whether each of the following is plagiarism or synthesis:

_____________1.  She was the daughter of an Air Force officer and moved a considerable amount during her childhood, so that meant she lived in places like New York City and Brussels.

_____________ 2.  Suzanne’s dad was a professor of history, and thoroughly taught his family about war.  She said "He would take us frequently to places like battlefields and war monuments. It would start back with whatever had precipitated the war and moved up through the battlefield you were standing in and through that and after that. It was a very comprehensive tour guide experience. So throughout our lives we basically heard about war."  This may have influenced her later to realize as she was watching coverage of the Iraq War that perhaps with reality TV and news coverage we are becoming desensitized to the realities of war.  So she started writing The Hunger Games series.

_____________ 3. Collins feels that kids are ready to and should learn about harsh realities such as war earlier than many people would think.  In fact, she says, "If we introduce kids to these ideas earlier, we could get a dialogue about war going earlier and possibly it would lead to more solutions,"

_____________ 4. Collins is extremely private about her life.  She is married to Cap Pryor who is an actor, and they have two children and live in Connecticut.

_____________ 5.  After success with her Gregor the Overlander series, Ms. Collins experienced even bigger success with her Hunger Games books, published in 2008, 2009, and 2010.   The Gregor series have not yet been made into movies, but the first Hunger Games movie was released in 2012 with others following.

World Book E-Books and Overdrive

How to access WorldBook's eBook collection:

From school:  www.worldbookonline.com

From home:  www.worldbookonline.com
username:  alpinedistrict
password:  student

To access a full list of books with grade levels see the attached list or go to:
http://www.worldbook.com/ebooks-title-list

To access a training video on WorldBook eBooks, go to:

http://www.worldbookonline.com/training/html/webinars_ebooks.htm


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You also have access to tons of ebooks through OverDrive.
Get a flier in the media center.

The OverDrive app is one of the top-rated eBook apps available for iOS, Android, Chromebook, Mac OS, Windows, and Windows Phone.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

1. Individual Reading -- Fill out your reading log at the end of the reading time.
(and San Diego Quick Testing)

2. Partner Fluency

3.  Attitude Survey

4. A bit of video about Reading!


5. Interest Inventory

6.  Inner Voices

      What is supposed to be happening as you read? 
           -- a sort of conversation with the text.

Inner Voice: Conversational or Waste-of-Time

Another  Conversation 

A3 Reasons to Read
To become informed expand vocabulary finding connections	To be entertained	To be able to do something	Misc. -- other reasons
news -- current events historical books - learn about the past biographies	free time science fiction	cooking phone books

A3 Types of Things We Read

A3 What skills and strategies can we use to help ourselves when we read?

A3 What is your favorite thing to read?
Fiction	Specific Titles	Nonfiction	Misc.

A4Reasons to Read
entertainment	school -- required	learning	to do something
text messages instagram twitter novels gossip magazines in the line at Walmart internet playbills shirts art	text books internet	books -- posters emails	traffic signs billboards hymnbooks music money price tags checks food, drinks

A4 Types of Things We Read

A4 What skills and strategies can we use to help ourselves when we read?

A4 What is your favorite thing to read?
Fiction	Specific Titles	Nonfiction	Misc.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Today's activities:
1.  Book Pass
2. Receive your folder.  It will stay in the classroom, in the black crate marked A4.
        Place it in the numbered hanging folder that matches 
               the number on your folder.
2. Individual ReadingQuiet Individual Reading.    Receive and fill out your blue reading log! 
Keep it in your folder.

3. Partner Fluency:  

     Pick  up a page cover and a reading passage.  One partner or the other will pick up a marker and eraser. 

4. Disclosure Documents and Quiz

 Reading 7 Teachers

5.  If time,  a bit of video about Reading!

Friday, January 9, 2015

Read-a-thon!  Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket,  if you wish.

1.  Take the Garfield Attitude Survey.

•            Do not write on the packet with the pictures of Garfield.
•            Write your answers on the scoring sheet,
•               then add up the points for the raw scores.  

2. Prizes for those PowerPoints voted best by your fellow students.
Please make sure that all empty candy wrappers are placed in a garbage can.

3. Readathon!
This is a time to READ.
You may occasionally whisper to a classmate, but this is NOT a talkathon. It is a Readathon.
Thanks for being in Reading 7 this semester!

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

We will have a READ-A-THON on Friday, January 9 . Bring things to read, treats, and a pillow sit on, if you wish.

Next time!

Today:

1. Brief Reading Time -- Do not forget to record your reading on your log.

2. Quick fluency practice --

3. Receive Viewing Worksheet to fill out as you move around the lab viewing the presentations.
Make sure you hand it in at the end of the period!


Computer Lab 211
A few minutes to make final edits and set up your presentation
If you have sent or shared your PowerPoint, check the notes at the bottom 

of each slide.  Under "View" click on "Show Speaker Notes." 


Presenting and Viewing PowerPoints

• View the Presentations in order.
• Keep your voices down.
• When you leave a presentation, reset it at the beginning.
• Fill out your viewing sheet for each presentation.
• Vote on that sheet for your three favorites -- the BEST ones. 

If you have not shared/sent your presentation to the teacher, do that today.

If you have not finished.  Do that as soon as possible (before 3:30 on Thursday, January 8) and share/send it to the teacher. The term ends Friday for your classes.  

Reading Actual Books

http://mic.com/articles/99408/science-has-great-news-for-people-who-read-actual-books

By the way, I found this only because I was reading online.  :)

Monday, January 5, 2015

Schedule for the rest of the term: 
January 5 Lab 201 
Take the SRI (Reading Test).
Make needed corrections to PowerPoints if you haven't already.

January 7 Lab 211 -- Present Your PowerPoints

January 9 Read-a-Thon

If you have sent or shared your PowerPoint, check the notes at the bottom 

of each slide.  Under "View" click on "Show Speaker Notes." 

Today: 

1. Individual Reading Time -- Fill out your reading log for today.

       The teacher will administer San Diego Quick Tests, if needed.

2. Fluency Practice -- Tongue Twisters

3.  Computer Lab 201

       Log in and then wait for Ms. John to bring up your SRI test. 

       After you have finished the test, you may work on your PowerPoint as needed. 

Important:  If you have not yet, invite me to edit your PowerPoint (if it is on Google Drive), or email your PowerPoint to me (if it is not on Google Drive).

Do your best on your SRI TEST!  These scores will be considered to determine which classes you will be allowed to take.