Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                        August 25 is the last day to change classes without paying a fee.  There is a dance on August 26!  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. Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2016-2017 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: Students will understand rules and procedures for our classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: 1 Self-Starter: 1. Find your seat on the seating chart. 2. Reading your choice of materials. (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 VIP form are due by August 26. 4.  We will discuss more of our classroom procedures. What about no-name papers? Your folders 5. More Book Pass! The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books.  Look at the cover. Read the blurb on the back of the book. Fill out a line on your log with the title. Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop. Fill out the rest of that line on your log.  Not-So-Sustained Silent Reading 6. Book frenzy -- When directed to, politely negotiate with classmates to get back the book you would most like to read during the next _5_ minutes. 7. Begin a  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.   If you borrow a book, please put it back where it belongs.  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 8/22/17 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.   9.    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 fluency graph.               ______ wpm Date 8-22-17 8-22-16 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 Let's fill it out together now.      Return the passages/page protectors. 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