Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Hand in your disclosure document and strategies pre-assessment if you haven't yet. If you were absent time before last, see me about taking the RI test.     Don't forget to take your reading homework home and complete it if you need to do make-up work -- the pink sheet.    Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on February 9.   Pick up your folders and have a book ready to read.  Do you know them?

Targets for Today: Read Read Read Practice strategies to use during reading. Review for another CRAAP test.

Today’s  Agenda:  1.  Individual Reading and  finish San Diego Quick Testing?  Fill out your reading log.   2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use passage #TT. 3. More BICUM This is what we already copied  -- the middle inside   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!                         3. Practice During Reading Strategies with articles.  Finish reading the articles and answering the questions.  We used these articles with the same worksheet as last time: https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-history-teachers/id/25299/ https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-fact-checker/id/24357/ 4. ⇩ Your Brochure: Outside  A4 needs to copy this.   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] 4. More practice-- this time with something truly challenging! Try reading.  What strategies are you using? Build Background Knowledge:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SrG3xYRxKY                                 Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address A3 -- Added background. Next time reread and look at vocabulary. A4 -- Started words or phrases that get in the way. More (a close reading) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLoiAP5R3c0 5. Another Review of CRAAP and Test on CRAAP Test.   A3 still needs to test.

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

A3 needs more time for articles.  

A4 saw the BBC site.  They did not see the Brain Dead Teen Report or do the next section of their BICUM brochures.


More about dealing with fake news:  http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38769996


More from The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/video/brain-dead-teen-only-capable-of-rolling-eyes-and-t-27225

Monday, January 30, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Hand in your disclosure document and strategies pre-assessment if you haven't yet. If you were absent time before last, see me about taking the RI test.      Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on February 9.   Start reading.  I will hand out the folders.

Targets for Today: Read Read Read Practice strategies to use during reading. Review for another CRAAP test.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual Reading and  finish San Diego Quick Testing?  Fill out your reading log.   2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use passage #606. 3. More BICUM This is what we copied last time -- the middle inside   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!                         A3 and A4 got to here. -- Finish "During Reading" on Articles.  3. Practice During Reading Strategies with articles.  We used these articles with the same worksheet as last time: https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-history-teachers/id/25299/ https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-fact-checker/id/24357/ 4. ⇩ 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] 5. Another Review of CRAAP and Test on CRAAP Test.

If You Were Absent:

Vocabulary:

A3 needs more time for articles.  

A4 saw the BBC site.  They did not see the Brain Dead Teen Report or do the next section of their BICUM brochures.


More about dealing with fake news:  http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-38769996


More from The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/video/brain-dead-teen-only-capable-of-rolling-eyes-and-t-27225

Thursday, January 26, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                           Hand in your disclosure document and strategies pre-assessment if you haven't yet. If you were absent time before last, see me about taking the RI test.

Targets for Today: Read for enjoyment. Improve fluency. Learn and practice more about effectively reading to learn.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Individual Reading and San Diego Quick Test  (RI?)  Fill out your reading log.  If you didn't last time, make sure it is filled out for Jan. 24.  If you did not have any time to read,  write the date and "Previewing."  2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Pick up a new passage.  This one is #606. 3. CRAAP Test Test.   4.  More BICUM Brochure and Practice We used these articles with the same worksheet as last time: https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-history-teachers/id/25299/ https://newsela.com/articles/fake-news-fact-checker/id/24357/  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!                         A3 and A4 got to here. ⇩ 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]

If You Were Absent: See above.  You can use the articles linked above, and the worksheet. Study the CRAAP Test: http://cavereading.blogspot.com/2016/01/mrs-jones-finding-trustworthy-sources.html

Vocabulary:

Continuum of Sources
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-your-preferred-news-outlet-says-about-your-political-ideology-2014-10

http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/section-1-media-sources-distinct-favorites-emerge-on-the-left-and-right/

   and What About The Onion?


From The Onion

The Onion - America's Finest News Source

www.theonion.com/

A farcical newspaper featuring world, national and community news.

How D.C. Is Preparing For Inauguration Day INFOGRAPHICJanuary 17, 2017 VOL 53 ISSUE 02   Politics · Politicians ·Washington D.C. ·Donald Trump Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th U.S. president on Friday. Here’s how Washington, D.C. is preparing for the event. Sharpening the Washington Monument Double-checking that all ne’er-do-well cousins are out of town that day 1.4 million folding chairs to be brought up from Capitol basement Unbeatable deals on model year–end Kia Rios, Optimas, and Sorentos Inscribing the sum of human knowledge onto steel tablets and burying them in a titanium vault under the National Archives Providing safe haven for dissident Rockettes Secure barriers set up to adequately protect Jackie Evancho, Talladega Marching Tornadoes, and Mormon Tabernacle Choir from hordes of rabid fans Trying to unload as many tickets to this thing as possible

Notes for the teacher: See Media Literacy Week Post from Newsela for lesson ideas