Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:

Targets for Today: Learn the class procedures for Reading 7.

Today’s  Agenda: Welcome to Semester 2, Rotation 1 of Reading 7.  Today's Agenda: In the Classroom 1. Getting Ready Find your assigned seat.  Pick up (from the front)      a disclosure document     a  disclosure document scavenger hunt     a reading log     a fluency graph 2. Answer the questions on the Scavenger Hunt. They are found on your Disclosure Document. (Receive hall passes.  Remind me if I don't hand them out!)  (Receive your folders which will STAY in this room.  Remind me if I don't hand them out!)  Welcome and Needed Supplies Welcome to Ms. Dorsey's Rotation for Seventh Grade Reading class!       Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time. Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7. 3.  Book Pass        You will look at the book on your desk. Look at the front of the book, look at the back of the book read the blurb, if there is one,  then start reading at the first page of the story. Read until the timer goes off. Record the book title, pages you read, Yes or No if you would like to read more of it, and why. Pass the book on to the next person. (Ms. Dorsey will tell you how to pass the books.) Repeat the above steps.  4.  Individual Reading Time -- and Learn How to Fill Out Your Reading Log Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!"  Activity 4. Individual Reading Time and Begin a New 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. # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 8/20/13 x Scholastic Scope, Sept. 2013 pages 4-9  “Malala the  Powerful” 15     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.  A3 to here today --  Getting acquainted with our classroom:  Where do you turn things in?  Where do we keep our folders?  Where do we find the materials for  fluency practice? Where could I find a book or magazine to read?  Where can I find handouts in case I've been absent? What can I find on this blog? 2.  Partner Fluency Practice        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. Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder.  Date 11-13-15 11-13-15 Passage SCSS SCSS Words Per Minute 143 153 Leave your folder in the hanging folder with the matching number -- in the crates at the back of the room.

If You Were Absent: