Thursday, February 26, 2015

Mrs. Fugal

Welcome to Semester 2, Rotation 2 of Reading 7.
If you were just in Ms. Dorsey's rotation, look for Mrs. Fugal in Room 200.

Today's Agenda: In the Classroom

• Find your assigned seat. 
• If they are available, pick up your folder from the black crate for your class at the back of the classroom.
• Pick up (from the front) 
  •      a reading log
  •      a fluency graph

Welcome and Needed Supplies

for those of you who were just in Mr. Gillis's class --
Welcome to Ms. Dorsey's Rotation for Seventh Grade Reading class! 

     Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time.

Here I am in Central Park -- New York City! 

Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7.

Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!" 

Activity 1. Individual Reading Time and Begin a New Reading Log

•     On most class days we will have some quiet individual reading time at the beginning of class.  Bring a book to read or borrow something from the teacher's shelves.
• Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time.  It counts on your grade!   
•     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

 Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder. 

Getting acquainted with our classroom:

•  Where do you turn things in?
•  Where do we keep our folders?
•  Where do we find the materials for          fluency practice?
• Where could I find a book or magazine to read?
•  Where can I find handouts in case I've been absent?
• What can I find on this blog?

2.  Partner Fluency Practice
       Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.
       Put the poem into the page protector.
       Fill out your new graph for each time you read.

3. For what reasons do we read?


A3 -- 
helps you think
add to knowledge
entertainment
to think more creatively 
expands your imagination
I have to!
works out your brain muscles
helps you understand words better
bigger vocabulary
helps you get through school
helps you do things
helps you with your writing
recipes
gives you a new/better perspective
have to read to make a website or game 
helps you with music
learn other languages
gotta read the bills
gotta read contracts
helps you with your business, money, future
keeps you out of prison 





3. For what reasons do we read?

for fun!
we have to
to pass the time
because my teachers tells me to
so we don't end up living in boxes
movies leave out some parts of the book
to gain knowledge
for the love of reading
some books are very worth it

4. Metacognition!

Reading Strategy #1 

Metacognition: Noticing your own thinking.

IAMNOWHERE!

What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading? 

Do you pay attention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo

You can choose to focus on one thing, and let others not distract you.

What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?  

Click on this link to progress through the series of posts -- one linked from the other, then came back here by clicking on the Home tab above.

1. Check your own inner voice.


We started
Practice Noticing Inner Voices  -- If you are absent, print these and follow the directions on the Inner Voice Template, using the Facts About the Brain as the reading material.

Facts About the Brain.docx

Inner Voice Template.doc

State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.   925L–1185L

Reading: Informational Text Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.       925L–1185L

Tuesday, February 24, 2014

Read-a-thon Today!

Read-a-thon Today!

Do not get out food, treats, drinks, etc. until we begin the Read-a-thon. 

• Check for any needed make-up homework.
• Turn in unused hall passes for extra credit points.
• Receive back papers from bottom wire basket. 

Partner Fluency Practice
      Leave your passages and page cover here.
     Your folder will follow you to Mrs. Fugal's classroom.

View the rest of Lewis and Clark Video.

Read-a-Thon
       This is not a talk-a-thon.

Keep on Reading!
http://www.schooltube.com/video/e9bd79d29b4d0e6a2345/Gotta%20Keep%20Reading%20-%20Ocoee%20Middle%20School

Mrs. Fugal
Room 200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imd37Sfl-JE&list=PLGVpxD1HlmJ89Kmt-ZRih478uaXaOFKu7&index=56

http://www.schooltube.com/video/d47dbbd926504247ba6f/Gaga_for_Reading

Happy Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs

Friday, February 20, 2015

Our Read-a-Thon will be on February 24.
Bring a book and, if you wish, treats. 

Your new rotation -- with Ms. Fugal -- will begin on February 26.

Read-a-thon -- NEXT TIME!!!!

Today

Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log

Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice - Fill out your graph.

Make sure your log and graph are filled out. They have recently been checked and will be checked again after our class today!

Activity 3: Do you have all of your brochure filled out?

Inside: 

Before Reading Self Check  Study Area   Emotions Level of Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. Look for bold or italicized print. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. Select or Create  Questions Set Study Length Place check marks

During Reading Be Active "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: --Reread -- Read ahead -- Define unfamiliar words -- Read out loud -- Mark with "?" to clear up later

After Reading -- #1 REDUCE Post View Ask yourself -- *What did I learn from reading this? *What patterns/overall structure did I notice? *What was the overall central idea? *Do I understand it all? If not, use fix-up strategies. Answer Questions Organize for Recall (Select 1) -- make outlines -- take notes -- write summaries -- create maps

Outside  -- Later

After Reading -- #2 RETAIN Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics Rehearse

Fix-Up Strategies  1. Check your own inner voice. 2. Focus on it, and read it again. 3. Try reading it out loud. 4. Try reading ahead a bit. 5.  Look for any words that may be getting in your way. 6.  Ask someone who can help you. -- or mark it with a ? for later.

BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition

REDUCE (the amount you have to remember):  

Organize for Recall

   Create Maps

Activity #4: One organizational strategy -- Mapping

   Read, View, and Map with Lewis and Clark

    Create maps

Mind-Mapping. . . and Doodling

Here are some examples of Mind Maps for other subjects:

Reading about Lewis and Clark:

Before Reading  -- We did this last time.

Self Check

Study Area

Emotions

Level of Difficulty

Feeling physically



Preview  --  We did this last time. 

You will not be writing on this packet.  

                   Use the sticky notes as markers and for notes.

Read the title.

Ask: What do I know about this subject?

Read the headings and subheadings.

Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences.

Look for bold or italicized print.

Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams.


Select or Create   Questions


Set Study Length  -- 15 to 20 minutes

Place check marks  -- or sticky notes.

During Reading:  Be Active!

Visualize, predict, make connections, etc.

Stop at each Heading.   

Check your understanding.

Use fix-up strategies if you need to.

Take notes on the sticky notes.

Go on through the next section.

Continue on to finish the article. 

After Reading:  Create a Map! 

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Clark and Lewis 

keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,
they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.

Lewis' dog Seaman

Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF

National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West  41 Minutes LONG

Last time -- A3 TO 33:25   REMAINING   Today --  to 11:00 remaining

Last time -- A4 TO 24:12   REMAINING   Today --  to 7:09 remaining

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:

If you were absent today,        do 20 minutes of make-up reading, record it, obtain and parent signature, and hand it in. When you return to the classroom, finish your BICUM packet.   Read the World Book article about Lewis and Clark.    Go to our school website homepage, http://afjh.alpineschools.org/ Click on Pioneer Online Library. Click on World Book. Select Student. Search for Lewis and Clark Expedition. Select the article about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. DO A SELF-CHECK, PREVIEW IT, READ ACTIVELY, AND TAKE NOTES. Read it and take notes -- select the information that would be most important to remember.

Our Read-a-Thon will be on February 24.
Bring a book and, if you wish, treats. 

Your new rotation -- with Ms. Fugal -- will begin on February 26.

Today
Activity 1: Individual Reading and Fill Out Reading Log


Activity 2: Partner Fluency Practice -- Last time you were assigned new partner and received a new passage.  Place the passage over the passages already inside your page protector.


Make sure your log and graph are filled out. They have recently been checked and will be checked again.

Activity 3: Add to your pamphlet about Effective Reading (if you haven't already) theyellow highlighted portion

Be Active

Inside: 

Before Reading Self Check  Study Area   Emotions Level of Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. Look for bold or italicized print. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. Select or Create  Questions Set Study Length Place check marks

During Reading Be Active "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: --Reread -- Read ahead -- Define unfamiliar words -- Read out loud -- Mark with "?" to clear up later

After Reading -- #1 REDUCE Post View Ask yourself -- *What did I learn from reading this? *What patterns/overall structure did I notice? *What was the overall central idea? *Do I understand it all? If not, use fix-up strategies. Answer Questions Organize for Recall (Select 1) -- make outlines -- take notes -- write summaries -- create maps

Outside  -- Later

After Reading -- #2 RETAIN Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics Rehearse

Fix-Up Strategies  1. Check your own inner voice. 2. Focus on it, and read it again. 3. Try reading it out loud. 4. Try reading ahead a bit. 5.  Look for any words that may be getting in your way. 6.  Ask someone who can help you. -- or mark it with a ? for later.

BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition

REDUCE (the amount you have to remember):  
Organize for Recall
   Create Maps

Activity #4: One organizational strategy -- Mapping
   Read, View, and Map with Lewis and Clark
    Create maps

Mind-Mapping. . . and Doodling

Here are some examples of Mind Maps for other subjects:

Reading about Lewis and Clark:

Before Reading

Self Check

Study Area

Emotions

Level of Difficulty

Feeling physically



Preview  -- You will not be writing on this packet.  

                   Use the sticky notes as markers and for notes.

Read the title.

Ask: What do I know about this subject?

Read the headings and subheadings.

Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences.

Look for bold or italicized print.

Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams.


Select or Create   Questions


Set Study Length  -- 15 to 20 minutes

Place check marks  -- or sticky notes.

During Reading:  Be Active!

Visualize, predict, make connections, etc.

Stop at each Heading.   

Check your understanding.

Use fix-up strategies if you need to.

Take notes on the sticky notes.

Go on through the next section.

After Reading:  Create a Map! 

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Clark and Lewis 

keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,
they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.

Lewis' dog Seaman

Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF

National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West  41 Minutes LONG

TODAY:
A3 TO 33:25   REMAINING

A4 TO 24:12 REMAINING