Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                    Anything in your packet that you did not finish  in the computer lab last time becomes homework and should be handed in by the beginning of class on Friday.

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. Your Brochure Step 3 for Your Brochure:    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 "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! Step 4 for Your Brochure:   Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your  own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it,  and read it  again. 3. Try reading  it out loud. 4. Try reading  ahead a bit. 5.  Look for  any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in  your way. 6.  Ask  someone who  can help you. - - or mark it  with a ?  for later. Added last time -- BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Reliability of the Internet -- Why you must be careful: A3 saw the shark picture. A4 saw shark and volcano Illustration #1 Illustration #2

If You Were Absent: See above.  Complete the reading make-up (pink) for today. See above for what else we did. If you haven't finished your computer lab packet yet:  See the post linked below if you need the handouts for the computer assignment: Thursday, November 19, 2015 Links (if you are working on this at home) http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/plagiarism.html# http://www.loislowry.com/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/tutorials/wikipedia/ http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/ http://afjh.alpineschools.org/  -- Go through this to get to Biography Reference Center. About The CRAAP Test  C = current Check the copyright date. R = relevant (Would it be helpful is you were doing research on Lewis and Clark?) A = Authority (Who wrote this?  Are they experts?)  Under the About Tab there is an "About the Authors."  The first set of information under About the Authors is crazy like the article about the explorers.  At the bottom of that, you can click on a link to the real information about them.   A = Accuracy (Could you verify -- or show to be false -- this information with other sources?  Is it accurate?)  P = Purpose   (Why did the authors post this information?)  Notice the other tabs -- including one for Teachers and one for a Webquest.  Considering who the people who made this really are, why would they have put in all the work to create this site?  or use the ABC's of Reliability and Usefulness