Friday August 26, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                     There is a dance on August 26!  The Seventh/Eighth grade Dance will be from 3:00- 4:00 and costs $2.   Cavetime begins on September 6.   School pictures will be taken on September 8.  Your disclosure signature sheet is due by August 26  -- TODAY! Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2016-2017 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: Students will understand rules and procedures for our classroom. Students will work on building fluency. Students will practice metacognition. State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.   925L–1185L Reading: Informational Text Standard 10  By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.       925L–1185L

Today’s  Agenda: Self-Starter: 1. Find your seat on the seating chart -- it is the same as last time. 2. Take out or select a book to read.          Reading your choice of materials. Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!"  (3.) If you brought back your disclosure document, please hand in the signature sheet to the top wire basket for your class. Your disclosure document signatures and reading strategies form are due by August 26 -- today!   4.  Continue reading until instructed to stop. 5.  Fill out your reading log. # 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've absent, or were off-task during reading time, or didn't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.   7.    One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Notice how far you read.            Write it down on your disclosure document:               ______ wpm    Place the passages/page protectors in your folders. 8.  You will have time to do recreational reading in this class,  but we will focus on STUDY-READING  -- reading to learn and remember. Metacognition! -- Begin your Pamphlet of Reading Strategies. Reading Strategy #1  Step One:  Notice Your Thinking so you can  really read when you're reading. Metacognition: Noticing your own thinking. IAMNOWHERE! BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition. 1. Check your own inner voice What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   How can you keep yourself focused in the first place?  Pair-Share  You can learn strategies to help yourself succeed in your reading tasks.  Using a plain piece of paper -- colored or white, fold it into thirds -- hamburger-wise. You won't need a mail label, though!  Step 1 for Your Brochure:  Outside     BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Practice Metacognition  Facts About the Brain.docx Inner Voice Template.doc Leave your folder in the hanging folder with the matching number -- in the crates at the back of the room. 10.  Put folders away.

If You Were Absent: Your folder will have been placed in the crate for your class.  Pick it up when you come into class next time.  The folders are alphabetical by last name. To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc