Tuesday, April 21, 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!   
• Fill out every part of the line for each day: date, type of material read, title, something about what you read, minutes read.
•     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.

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You will have time to do recreational reading in this class, 

but we will focus on STUDY-READING 

-- reading to learn and remember.

3. Metacognition! -- Add to your Pamphlet of Reading Strategies.
Reading Strategy #1 

Metacognition: Noticing your own thinking.

IAMNOWHERE!

BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition.

Your Brochure:  Outside  

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

You can choose to focus on one thing, and let others not distract you.

What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it? Click on this link to progress through the series of posts -- one linked from the other, then came back here by clicking on the Home tab above.

1. Check your own inner voice

A3 will begin again at -- If you didn't get it the first time, focus on it, and read it again.
A4 will begin again at Donald and Donald!

4. Practice Noticing Inner Voices  -- If you are absent, print these and follow the directions on the Inner Voice Template, using the Facts About the Brain as the reading material.

Facts About the Brain.docx

Inner Voice Template.doc

State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.   925L–1185L

Reading: Informational Text Standard 10 
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.       925L–1185L