Thursday, October 27, 2016

Announcements and Reminders: Today is the first day of your new term!                         Turn in your Pre-Reading Practice sheets to the top wire basket. Pull out your books! 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! For Term 1, if your grade was within 5 points of the next half-grade up, we most generously gave you those points.

Targets for Today: I can make predictions and connections when I read. I can make inferences when I read.

Today’s  Agenda: Silent Reading! Go ahead and fill out your reading log. Pre-Reading Quiz!! We will take it, then correct it together. Turn it in to the top wire basket. Let's talk for a minute- you all practiced using a Pre-Reading strategy at home. How did it go? Now who can remember the two strategies we practiced last time? There are three more During Reading strategies. We'll practice them today! The first is "Make Connections". Do these phrases sound familiar to anyone? Text to Self Text to Text Text to World If this were the text that I gave you, what kind of connections could you make? "Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." -Robert Frost Text to Self? Text to Text? Text to World? How about with a nonfiction text? Can you still make connections? "Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations Secretary General, visited Haiti after Category 4 Hurricane Matthew devastated it earlier in October. The hurricane killed around 1,000 people in Haiti and left more than 1.4 million people in need of humanitarian aid. The UN Secretary General visited Haiti and witnessed the desperate Haitians’ looting of food trucks and fighting over bags of flour. In his speech, he firmly condemned all attacks against humanitarian convoys." Read more: http://www.newsinlevels.com/products/situation-in-haiti-level-3/ Text to Self? Text to Text? Text to World? Making Predictions is a skill that builds on those connections. As you read, your brain makes connections to your previous experiences and your background knowledge. Your brain takes those facts and experiences, and it can make guesses about how this story will turn out.  I'll read you a short fairy tale. I will stop in the middle and ask you to make a prediction, then I'll ask what made you think that. What facts/experiences make that seem like a good prediction? How about with nonfiction? What are your predictions about what this article will say about blushing? Use clues in the text and your own ideas. "What is this peculiar phenomenon called blushing? A skin reaction? An emotion? A kind of vascular expression? Scientists have never been sure how to describe it. The blush is at once physiology and psychology. On the one hand, blushing is involuntary, uncontrollable, and external, like a rash. On the other hand, it requires thought and feeling at the highest order of cerebral function. “Man is the only animal that blushes,” Mark Twain wrote. “Or needs to.” -Atul Gawande, "Crimson Tide", The New Yorker

If You Were Absent: Pick up a pink slip to make up your silent reading. Turn in your Pre-Reading Practice sheet. Take the Pre-Reading Quiz, and come pick up a During Reading Practice Sheet.

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