Thursday, April 23, 2015

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

If you are absent, 

1. complete 20 minutes of make-up reading and report it on the pink make-up sheet with a parent or guardian signature.
2. During Cavetime or after school, finish your graphic organizer for your Inner Voices while reading the brain article.
3. Fill in the middle inside portion of your BICUM brochure.
4. See below the brochure for words to use when predicting what will happen in the story, 
5. Then read the story ("Skitterings").
6. Do the same for the second story ("There's Something Under the Bed").

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.

Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder.


2. Partner Fluency Practice and fill out your fluency graph
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.

Last time for "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout"! 
Do your best to be fast and correct -- fluent!



3. Finish reading about the Brain and fill out Inner Voice Chart.
Some ideas to remember from this article:

• Re-expose/repeat to fix memory in your brain.
• More elaboration makes the memory stick.
• Organized information sticks better -- 40% better.
• Study at fixed, spaced intervals.
• Multi-sensory environments aid memory.                                                                pine, spray

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

Your Brochure:  Outside  

Yes, I do understand. No, I don't understand

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. Pace yourself with  a pencil  your finger. SPOT THE ROT Stop at the  's  and  Test your  Understanding.

Active Reading

Predicting  -- How could these words be 

related to each other in a story? 

bed                   spider                  mother                  kill                               sheets                                                book

How about these?

bed                      father            light                      dark                          boy                                                   sound

For this next story, you do not have to write anything.

Listen, and be ready to make a prediction/inference.

prediction:  about what is to come

inference: about what is

NEXT TIME:  SPOT THE ROT WITH INNER VOICES

TALKING WITH THE TEXT, VISUALIZING, PACING

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