Friday, January 20, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                               Find your seat on the seating chart. Hand in your disclosure document signature sheet if you have the signatures. Also fill out the Reading Strategies PreAssessment. Hand these in to the top wire basket for your class. They were due last time.

Targets for Today: Students will show what they know about reading through taking two assessments -- the Reading Inventory and the San Diego Quick Test.  Students will spend time reading their choice of materials. Students will practice reading fluently.   Students will continue learning about metacognition and the skills and strategies that will help them improve their reading.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Find your assigned seat and (if you haven't) hand in your disclosure signature sheet and strategies pre-assessment. Prepare to go to the computer lab -- Lab 224.  Take a book to read should you finish early. 2.  Take the RI on the computer.  A teacher may ask you to take your turn coming into the hall to take the San Diego Quick Test. RI Test in Lab 224  Bring a book or magazine to read in case you have extra time after you finish.  Follow the directions you receive in the Computer Lab. RI Instructions  Log onto the computer and wait.  Follow directions to log onto RI.  (See the poster on the wall.) Select three favorite types of books.  Take the practice test SERIOUSLY. Take the rest of the test.  Take it seriously.  It is one of the factors that will influence what classes you will be able to take in the future. If you absolutely DO NOT know an answer, use a "SKIP." When finished, you may print and take the list of suggested books.  Remember to log off of the computer, and to push your chair in when you leave.  Bring a book to read in case you have extra time after you finish.  The "Stretch" Band is the one to look at. Grade Band Current Lexile Band "Stretch" Lexile Band*  K–1  N/A N/A  2–3  450L–725L 420L–820L  4–5  645L–845L 740L–1010L  6–8 860L–1010L 925L–1185L 9-10 960L–1115L 1050L–1335L 11–CCR  1070L–1220L 1185L–1385L When you finish --  Individual Quiet Reading Time (It's a good idea to be reading a book you are required to read for English class or another class.  That way you can kill two birds with one stone. ) 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. This log should stay in your folder!!     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework. 3.  Partner Fluency Practice 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. Today use the "Turning Off the Faucet" poem.  If time -- 4. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  B.  What is the most difficult type of reading that you do?  Why is it hard?    A4 -- email responses from staff C. Article for Preview  -- Magazines A3 received papers and picked out magazines

If You Were Absent: See above for what we did.

Vocabulary: metacognition:  thinking about your own thinking -- so you can have more control over your own thinking (such as when you are reading)