Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Next time: April  14  Read-a-thon!  Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket,  if you wish.  Make a note for yourself to bring treats!                       Your seats are the same.  They are just turned.  You will be across from your partner.                                        Next time will be the last day of this rotation. On April 18  you will go to Mrs. Fugal's class.        Mrs. Fugal  Room 204 On April 18 you will  look for Mrs. Fugal in Room 204. If you did not turn in your original mind maps last time, turn them in today. If you still need to take the test, you may take the test next time during the Readathon. Turn in any revised or missing work BEFORE the end of the rotation. Thomas Jefferson's Birthday is tomorrow!

Targets for Today: I read for enjoyment, and add to a record of my reading. I can read aloud fluently. I will understand better how to use skills and strategies to improve my ability to read effectively. I can make effective inferences about the texts I read.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Reading -- Fill out your reading log. 2. Partner fluency practice 3. Review: On ONE side of the paper you receive, write your name and all of the skills and strategies you can think of that we used while learning about The Lewis and Clark Expedition. 3. Thinking back -- Skills, knowledge, and strategies we used to learn about the Lewis and Clark Expedition: recognizing reliable and useful sources reading a primary source document (the letter from Thomas Jefferson to Meriwether Lewis) preparing to read metacognition (being aware of our thinking and inner voices as we read) dividing a text into chunks to read, then checking understanding using fix-up strategies if we haven't understood predicting and making inferences Reducing and Retaining (deciding what we really need to remember, and remembering it) highlighting creating a mind map using icons (simple drawings) using mnemonics (memory aides) creating flashcards studying in a group  4.  Just to check: Do you understand Primary and Secondary Sources?  Sources: Primary or Secondary? 5. More on inference (jokes, passages) https://prezi.com/ucuesmgagc3h/understanding-inferences-using-jokes-and-comics/ A4 did Inference sheet #5 as an end-quiz on inferences. Both classes handed in their lined papers with the list of skills and strategies, and on the other side the joke and explanation of what made it funny.

If You Were Absent: See above.