Friday, December 4, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    Your computer lab packets are due today at the beginning of class. Hand them in to the top wire basket for this class. For materials and help, see  Monday, November 30, 2015 If you need the worksheets: Plagiarism Computer Exercise Worksheet2015.doc  Wikipedia exercise.docx  explorers site & BRC.docx Click on the link, then click on the Download tab, open the document, and then you can print it or fill it out on your computer.   Extra credit opportunity: Use the  Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights  You can earn 2 points for each amendment.   Be able to recite them in order and briefly explain what each means-- using the peg system.

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. I am computer/internet savvy!

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Pick up your folder, please. 2. Individual Reading.  Fill out your reading log.  Take home any make-up work in your folder (pink).   3. Partner Fluency Practice 4.  Practice  DURING READING strategies. We are practicing these strategies so you can use them on your own.

DURING READING

Be Active

   I. "Talk" with the author or text.

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Year-Round Schools?

Practice Pacing Yourself 

Pace yourself with 
a pencil  your finger.

IV. Make Predictions 

Words you need to know: 

prediction:  about what is to come

inference: about what is (reading between the lines, What is the author saying without directly stating it?) 

This is the prediction cycle: 

1) predict
2) read
3) check (to see whether you were right)
4) compliment (yourself on getting it right) or correct (your thinking using the new information).

 Storytime  -- You will receive a sheet of plain paper.  Fold it in half.  On each half you will draw something as you are directed to.  Write your name somewhere on that paper. 

Predicting  Practice -- How could these words be related to each other in a story? 

bed                      father            light                      dark                          boy                                                   sound

Draw a picture of what's under YOUR bed.

Listen to the story: There's Something Under the Bed




Now that you know what genre we are dealing with, you can think about the conventions of the genre.

How about these?  How could these words be related to each other in a story? 

bed                   spider                  mother                  kill                               sheets                                                book

Draw a picture that expresses how you feel about spiders. 
Think about experiences you have had with spiders.  




Skittering

Soundtrack from spiders scene in Something Wicked This Way Comes

Make the things you have to learn memorable:

• Find a connection with what you have experiences or what you know.
• Draw a picture.
• Find an emotional connection, if you can.  You might want to make up a story to help you remember something, or imagine yourself there. 

And then there is making inferences. 

Words you need to know: 

Imply =      to suggest

Infer =       to conclude

    

Just for fun:

If You Were Absent: Complete the make-up reading. With the Year-Round Schools article,   talk back to the text. Ask questions, make comments.  Write them down and bring them to the teacher. Using a nonfiction text, practice pacing yourself with your finger as you read.  Before reading mark a line about 1/2-1 inch in from the right and left margin.  As you move your finger over the lines, stop at the line.  Your peripheral vision will take in the words or parts of words outside the lines. Follow the directions above to make predictions and read the stories linked from this post. Don't forget to finish and hand in your computer lab packet if you haven't.