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Targets for Today:

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Get ready for class.  Pick up your folder from the back of the room.  If you were not here last time, pick up your hall pass requests from the lower wire basket for our class.  Find your assigned seat. Make sure you have a pen or pencil ready. 2. Quiet Individual Reading Fill out your Reading Log.  Fill out every part of the line for each day: date, type of material read, title, something about what you read, minutes read. 3. Partner Fluency Practice  Fill out your Fluency Graph.   Required for each time you read: date, passage number, words per minute 4. Metacognition:  Inner Voice Graphic Organizer with an article about the brain Last time A3 received the Inner Voice Template, but not the Facts About the Brain/ Last time A4 received both and had some time to work. Facts About the Brain.docx Inner Voice Template.doc ** Demo with Pioneer Library: Research in Context -- Grades 6-8 ** Time for students to complete their own inner voice check. 5. BICUM!  Begin the Brochure.  Check your own inner voice -- METACOGNITION! Using a plain piece of paper -- colored or white, fold it into thirds -- hamburger-wise. Step 1 for Your Brochure:  Outside     BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Step 2 for 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

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