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.