Monday, April 27, 2015

Pick up your folder, make sure you have reading materials, and be seated.

Activity 1. Individual Reading Time and Fill in Your 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.

Today you are welcome to pick up and read Scholastic book order ads. 

Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder.


2. Partner Fluency Practice and fill out your fluency graph

• Pick up a new passage.
• Place it on top of the poem already in your page protector.
• Find the passage number at the upper right corner of the page. 

More BICUM -- Creating your brochure of steps to successful study-reading. 

Your Brochure:  Outside  

Continued from  DURING READING 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

BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period]

Your Brochure:  Inside  

Before Reading Complete a  Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? 2. Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. 3. Look for bold or italicized print. 4. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. 5. Select or Create Questions 6. Set Study Length 7. Place check marks

DURING READING Be Active    I. "Talk" with the author or text.                 Year-Round Schools?  II. Visualize III. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World IV. Predict      1) predict           2) read                3) check             4) compliment or correct Skittering See below. There's Something Under the Bed See below. * Notice your own alignment. *Pace yourself  with  a pencil  your  finger. SPOT THE ROT   Stop at the  's  and  Test your  Understanding. (See the back of this panel.)

prediction: about what is to come
inference: about what is


4.  SPOT THE ROT WITH INNER VOICES
TALKING WITH THE TEXT, VISUALIZING, PACING

Pacing  yourself with a pencil --  or with your finger -- 

1. Place your pencil on the first line of print about one inch from the beginning of the material.
2. Move it across a line to about 1 inch before the right edge of the print.
3. Swing back to the next line 1/2 to 1 inch from the left edge.
4. Again, move across the page to 1/2 to 1 inch before the end of the line.

A4 received the Spot the Rot passages.
They paced with a finger, visualized, talked with the text. 

They still need to complete the inner voices sheet



5. TALK WITH THE TEXT OR AUTHOR
Ask
Who are you?
Why are you writing this? 
Ask more questions as they come up.

ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness
Record these on the inside of your folder.


6. Fix-Up Strategies Review

Use Reading Strategy Tools!

If you don't get it at first use these fix-up strategies:

1. Check your own inner voice.

      Are you paying attention to the text, thinking about it, or are you thinking about something else?  If you are not focused on the text, FOCUS.

2. If you didn't get it the first time, focus on it, and read it again.

3. If you still don't get it, try reading it out loud.

4. If you still don't get it, try reading ahead a bit.

    The next sentence or so may help you understand what you just read. 

5. If you still don't understand, look for any words that may be getting in your way.

    Are there terms you don't understand?   
1. Is there something in the context that gives you a clue about what they mean?  
2. Can you look them up? 
3. Could you ask someone who would know what they mean?  

6. If you've really tried all of these strategies, and you still don't understand, ask someone who can help you.

Inner Voices



If you are absent,

• complete 20 minutes of make-up reading and report it on the pink make-up sheet with a parent or guardian signature.
• See above for other work you need to complete. 

Teacher's Notes:  

Thursday, March 19, 2015

More Active Reading: Noticing Patterns

Seeing patterns

puzzled?

Can you see it?

What patterns did you learn in English class -- Text Structures?

One type of pattern is sequence!

What other patterns?