Friday, February 13, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:

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) the yellow 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

Activity #4:

• Highlighting/Marking 
• Be selective
• Only ten to twenty percent    --  10 to 20%
• Mark materials that you must remember:
• key concepts (central ideas and their most important supporting details, 
• new vocabulary, 
• answers to questions).

Preview   -- Finish the reading selection about lightening.

1. Preview
2. Predict/Question
3. Place  s,
4. Read to the first check , reading actively.
     Stop to test your understanding.  
             Can you paraphrase (put the information into your own words)?

     5a. If you don't understand, use Fix-Up Strategies.
     5b. If you do understand --
     mark and highlight
6.  Continue to the next , repeating the above steps. 

Highlighting 

Helpful

Not helpful

Activity #5: 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:

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