Monday, December 5, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                           Don't forget to hand in your computer lab papers as soon as you finish them.

Targets for Today: State Core:  W.7.1b and W.8.1b. State Core Reading: Literature Standard 10  Reading: Informational Text Standard 10

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual Reading Time         Don't forget to fill out your reading log! If you have a pink make-up sheet in your folder, take it home to complete  the make-up assignment.                                                                                                        2. Fluency Practice --  You have a new passage today.  The passage number is in the upper right hand corner of the page.  MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT THE DATE, PASSAGE NUMBER OR LETTERS, AND WORDS PER MINUTE EACH TIME YOU HAVE HAD A TURN TO DO A TIMED READING.    Ask:  Is this a reliable and useful source?  Use ABC's or CRAAP Test if needed. http://www.dhmo.org/  Your Brochure: Inside ⇩ Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? 2. Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. 3. Look for bold or italicized print. 4. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. 5. Ask:  Is this a reliable and useful source?  Use ABC's or CRAAP Test if needed. 6. Select or Create Questions (Set Purpose!) 7. Set Study Length During Reading Be Active ➨ Check your alignment. ➨"Talk" with the author or text. ➨Visualize. ➨ Make Predictions      1) predict 2) read 3) check 4) compliment or correct      ➨ Pace yourself with a pencil, or better yet, with your finger. ➨ Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World ➨Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding. Yes, I do  understand. Mark and highlight  text. Read to end of study block.  No, I don't  understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure!

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⇩ Your Brochure: Outside

Continued from  DURING READING Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it, and read it  again. 3. Try reading it out loud. 4. Try reading ahead a bit. 5.  Look for any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in your way. 6.  Ask someone who  can help you. -- or mark it  with a ? for later. 7. Add to your background knowledge!  You can do this before reading or during reading. Look it up on a reliable online site. Find a book for children on the topic. Watch a documentary or other educational program.

BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period]

Visualizing and Predicting 

Story Time!

Before Reading:  How do you feel about spiders?

A4 finished the spider story, and did not watch the video yet.

Visualizing and Taking Notes:

Take notes on this: 

http://showwithmedia.com/visual-notetaking/

A3 to minute 2:00
A4 to minute  

Now Practice:  Take notes on an article 
about the brain. 

If You Were Absent: See above.

Vocabulary: