Thursday, September 1, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                  Cavetime will begin on September 6.   School pictures will be taken on September 8 - 9.  Your disclosure signature sheet was due by August 26.  If you haven't turned it in yet, complete and turn it in as soon as possible.  Today bring earbuds or earphones if you have them.

Targets for Today: Students will practice independent recreational reading. Students will learn about reading online. 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 Writing Standard 8  Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Today’s  Agenda: Self-Starter: 1. Pick up your folder from the black crate.  2. Take out or select a book to read.          Reading your choice of materials.    3.  Continue reading until instructed to stop.      Fill out your reading log.  4. Computer Lab a. Prepare to go to computer lab 202 -- just out the door, to the right. b.  Receive your packet for work in the computer lab:          Using Metacognition When Using the Internet Thinking about your thinking as your read the Internet Your computer number is your folder number.   c. Get as much done as you can today.       Be on task!   5. When we return to the classroom, put your folders away and clean up after yourself.

If You Were Absent: Pick up or print the computer lab packet.  You could work on this at home or during Cave Time Intervention. Internet Metacognition.docx This packet is six pages long. 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 Remember that metacognition is thinking about your own thinking -- in this case noticing what you are thinking as your read .