Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                           Pull out your books! Remember that the end of the term is October 26, this Wednesday. Also a heads up- we will give you extra credit if you dress up as a book character for Halloween!! Start brainstorming and come show us your costume/send us a picture! Keep your hall passes for the rest of this term.

Targets for Today: I can preview before I read. I can visualize a text as I read. I can "talk with the text" as I read.

Today’s  Agenda: Silent Reading! Go ahead and fill out your reading log. And now a review from last time! What it means to "preview" something that you read? We did it together last time- now you get to practice previewing on your own. Good! You'll need to remember the strategies that we teach you. We'll be giving you regular quizzes from now on to make sure you remember what the strategies are called and how they are used. You'll also have the same kind of homework assignment multiple times: you'll take one of the strategies and practice using it at home. Let's look through your first Practice sheet together and then you can put it away. Pull out your BICUM Brochure! We finished our Pre-Reading Strategies and we're ready to learn some strategies to help us while we read. Copy this down on the inside middle column: Today we'll practice visualizing and "talking with the text". Close your eyes and listen while Mrs. Mace reads you a part of her favorite book (Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter). What picture do you see in your mind? Now let's try it with non-fiction. Close your eyes and listen, making a picture in your mind for what I'm going to read. "In 1939, just when the rest of this prairie might have been turned into farmland, the army came and protected this land. The army did not mean to save the prairie. The army used about 25,000 acres of prairie land to protect the nation, not the prairie. The army built a plant to make explosives for use in World War II. They built railroad tracks to carry the explosives away from the plant. They built thickwalled buildings called bunkers to store the explosives." -"Prairie Keepers", Center for Urban Education at DePaul University © 2008 As you read, visualizing and making pictures in your mind will help you understand what you read. You'll also remember it better! Now let's practice Talking with the Text. I'll model it for you as I read this poem called "Harlem," by Langston Hughes: What happens to a dream deferred?        Does it dry up        like a raisin in the sun?        Or fester like a sore—        And then run?        Does it stink like rotten meat?        Or crust and sugar over—        like a syrupy sweet?        Maybe it just sags        like a heavy load.        Or does it explode? Now you try! Check out the article that you were given and make note of your thoughts as you go. Let's read the directions at the bottom.

If You Were Absent: Complete the Previewing a Chapter Assignment and the Talk with the Text assignment. Pick up your Pre-Reading Practice homework and do that to prepare for the Pre-Reading Quiz.

Vocabulary: Visualize: the practice of making pictures and images in your mind that go along with the text you're reading "Talk with the text": the practice of thinking actively during reading; asking questions, comparing it to your experiences, forming opinions, making observations, etc. deferred:  postponed, put off, delayed