Cave Reading: Friday, March 13, 2015

Superstitious

- Shel Silverstein

If you are superstitious you'll never step on cracks.
When you see a ladder you will never walk beneath it.
And if you ever spill some salt you'll thrown some 'cross your back,
And carry' round a rabbit's foot just in case you need it.
You'll pick up any pin that you find lying on the ground,
And never, never, ever throw your hat upon the bed,
Or open an umbrella when you are in the house.
You'll bite your tongue each time you say
A thing you shouldn't have said.
You'll hold your breath and cross your fingers
Walkin' by a graveyard,
And number thirteen's never gonna do you any good.
Black cats will all look vicious, if you're superstitious,
But I'm not superstitious (knock on wood).

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Announcements and Reminders

Today is the deadline for turning in late or revised work for Term 3.

Today hand in your completed Pioneer Library Online and All About Explorers Worksheet.

Check your folder for make-up homework. It must be completed and handed in by March 19.

If you did not fill out your reading log, read at home for 20 minutes for each day you missed, fill out the information you would have filled out on the log, and have a parent sign for each twenty minutes completed.
If you need to makeup fluency practice, get the necessary papers from your folder or if they are not in your folder, ask Ms. Dorsey

Have you handed in your computer lab assignment and your inner voices assignments?

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Today's Agenda:
Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.

1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.

2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

Patterson, Dysen	Davis, Kirby
Davies, Sydney	Allen, Brinley
Carter, Jaydon	Villagomez, Andrew
Carter, Kylee	Jacobson, Faith
Jenkins, Breanna	Schaerrer, Covey
Mower, Samuel	Tolman, Aidan
Jones, Isaih	Valverde, Jim
Bautista, Ashley	Harris, Eden
McConkie, Max	Shippen, Sarah
Mitchell, Makayla	Gardner, Sydney
Munoz, Natalie	Smith, Myah
Spencer, Madeline	Vickers, Ali

Beck, Benjamin	Munson, Ian
Bradford, Roman	Horsley, Ethan
Gray, Russell	Jorgensen, Maxwell
Hemler, Kaybree	Serrano, Arely
Lopez, Lezlie	Wolfley, Addison
Olsen, Jackson	Stika, Scott
Thorpe, Carson		Canche, Alex
Duncan, Easton	Kelsch, Dyllon
Fritze, Austin	Hardin, Alixandria
Taylor, Megan
Greening, Easton	Ogier, Jarom
Rasmussen, Mason	Matthews, Drake
Pulley, Wyatt	Gregory, Jaxon
Taylor, Emree	Turner, Isabella

3. Open Notes Quiz on the ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness.

What does the A stand for? (Write it on your whiteboard.)

Author

What does the B stand for? (Write it on your whiteboard.)

Bias

What does the C stand for? (Write it on your whiteboard.)

Coverage

What does the D stand for? (Write it on your whiteboard.)

Dates

What does the E stand for? (Write it on your whiteboard.)

Editing

You're done!

4. More BICUM

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 Headings.

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 CreateQuestions
(You could turn the headings into questions.)

Set Study Length

Place check marks

During Reading

Be Active

"Talk" with the author or text.
Visualize
Notice Patterns
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

Notice Patterns.

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
-Reduce-

Outside --

After Reading
-Retain-

[Strategies]

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

[My Name]

[My Class Period]

More Active Reading: Noticing Patterns

Seeing patterns

puzzled?

The procedure is actually quite simple. First you arrange items into different groups. Of course one pile may be sufficient depending on how much there is to do. If you have to go somewhere else due to lack of facilities that is the next step; otherwise, you are pretty well set. It is important not to overdo things. That is, it is better to do too few things at once then too many. In the short run this may not seem important but complications can easily arise. A mistake can be expensive as well. At first, the whole procedure will seem complicated. Soon, however, it will become just another facet of life. It is difficult to foresee any end to the necessity for this task in the immediate future, but then, one can never tell. After the procedure is completed one arranges the materials into different groups again. Then they can be put into their appropriate places. Eventually they will be used once more and the whole cycle will then have to be repeated. However, that is a part of life .

(Bransford, 1979; p. 134-135; original study by Bransford & Johnson, 1972).