Thursday, November 5, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   If you received a poor score on your BICUM Brochure,  you may complete it and hand it in to the wire basket for additional points.  This must be done before you have moved to your new class. If you have homework to do for this class, don't forget to take it home. This rotation ends November 11. Make sure you have all of your work turned in, and any make-up work completed and turned in by that day.   We have three more days of class, including the Readathon on November 11.   On that day bring your favorite reading materials, a pillow if you'd like to sit on it, and treats to enjoy and to share.

Targets for Today: I will read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading. I can read aloud fluently. I know strategies I can use to comprehend (understand) what I read, and to remember it.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual reading.                 Fill out your log! 2. Partner Fluency Practice       Use the  new passages from last time!         Fill out your graph! 3. After Reading How is reading like solving a puzzle?     Class responses: You have to put the pieces together. Working together with others on understanding can help, if everyone is focused on getting the job done. Background knowledge helps. Treating the task as solving a mystery can make it more interesting. Asking questions can help. Recognizing the relationships among the pieces can help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FysobubtDcI One type of pattern is sequence!  Sequencing game ---  How do I identify a text structure/pattern? What sorts of transitions am I seeing? What are the relationships among the ideas? Central Ideas  Review  What is a central idea?  1. the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about It must be a complete sentence that includes the topic and a statement about it.   We look for the central idea in nonfiction, and for the theme in fiction. synonyms key point main idea the point what it's all about How do I identify it? The overall gist  What is most of it about, and what is the author saying about that?  Repeated words Repeated synonyms and pronouns Is there one sentence that just seems to wrap up everything else? If not, are there parts of more than one sentence that I could put into one sentence, and it would wrap up everything else?  Where could I find it in the passage?  At the beginning At the end In the middle Not stated directly -- just implied mnemonics Rhymes: "In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." "I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh." Five Freedoms in the First Amendment "Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be Freedom of Religion and Assembly, Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press, Freedom of Speech, now don't distress." Mneumonic -- A Rough Poem about Lewis and Clark Acronyms: BICUM  =  Acronyms: NASA  =  National Aeronautics Space Administration Acronyms: SCUBA  =  Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus Acronyms: HOMES =  The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior Acronyms: FACE =  The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E Acronyms: ROY G. BIV =  The colors of the rainbow =  Acronyms: SKILL =  Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs  Lewis and Clark -- Acronymic Acrostics:  The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet. Every Good Boy Does Fine =  lines of the treble clef Acrostics:  Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally =  order of operations My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas =  = the Planets in Our Solar System Other Types of Mnemonics Mini-Stories: Songs:  Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah? Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary Peg System:   Peg System for Memorization Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights for extra credit Loci System: Select a place you know well 4.  Reduce and Retain  Make a Map Place your name on your map. Add the cities that are included on the first map in your packet -- EXCEPT Portland. There are dots on your large map for each of them. Add other features as directed. Fold your map in half to keep in your manila folder. http://cavereading.blogspot.com/2015/05/illustrations-for-lewis-and-clark.html By the end of class next time, you will need 35 or more facts on your map. A4 to leaving Fort Mandan.

If You Were Absent: Check your grade.  Any needed makeup work (homework) is in your folder. Work on your map using the maps in your packet, this map: http://cavereading.blogspot.com/2015/05/illustrations-for-lewis-and-clark.html and any of these: Flash Cards for Lewis and Clark Facts for Your Mind Map