Friday, January 13, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Welcome to Reading 7, Rotation 1!!  For today you will pick your own seat. Hand in your disclosure document signature sheet if you have the signatures.

Targets for Today: Students will practice rules and procedures for our classroom.  Students will sample a variety of books. Students will practice reading fluently.   Students will begin learning about metacognition and the skills and strategies that will help them improve their reading.

Today’s  Agenda: For today you will pick your own seat. Pick up your folder. Your disclosure document signatures and reading strategies pre-assessment are due by January 18. Hand in your disclosure signature sheet if you brought it back today Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7. 1.  Individual Reading and Filling out the Reading Log 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!! # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 1/11/17 x The Fourth Stall  p. 46-55 15     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework. 2. Partner Fluency Practice Partner Fluency will help you feel comfortable reading out loud. Your partner can also help you notice what kind of mistakes you make (long pauses, skipping words, saying the wrong word, etc.) so that you can work on those and get better!      One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.        Put the poem into the page protector.        With a classmate you will take turns reading the passage.        You will be timed for one minute.        Your partner will follow along and mark any errors and mark where you ended.         Notice how far you read.  Figure out how many words you read, then subtract any errors.           Write it down.                 ______ wpm 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.            Fill out your new graph for each time you read. Date 1-11-17 11-11-17 Passage SCSS SCSS ⇐Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 (example) 153 (example) Your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in your folder.  3. Book Pass -- to get acquainted with some of the books in our classroom.   The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books.  Look at the cover.  Read the blurb on the back of the book.  Fill out a line on your log with the title.    Book Pass Log.doc Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop -- about three mintues.  Fill out the rest of that line on your book pass log.  Then do the same with the next book.  Repeat.  4. Begin learning about Metacognition Step One: Notice Your Thinking so you can really read when you're reading. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  IAMNOWHERE! BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition. 1. Check your own inner voice What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   How can you keep yourself focused in the first place?  Pair-Share  You can learn strategies to help yourself succeed in your reading tasks. 1. Check your own inner voice.  Your mind is working all the time, whether you are paying attention to it or not.  Noticing your own thinking is called METACOGNITION. Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw  When you are reading, you can control your thoughts so that you are having a conversation with the text.  This is called a CONVERSATIONAL VOICE and is USEFUL.  We all have times when we are "reading,"  but really our thoughts are wandering to other subjects.  This voice within your head, when you really should be reading, is called a WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE. The best solution for the WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE is to gently bring you focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later. Next time:   BEGIN YOUR BICUM BROCHURE Using a plain piece of paper -- colored or white, fold it into thirds -- hamburger-wise. Step 1 for Your Brochure:  Outside     BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Step 2 for 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 7. Set Study Length

If You Were Absent: ⇒Pick up a disclosure document from the handouts file -- or download and print it from here -- if you didn't already get one. Reading 7 Disclosure Document Term 3-17.docx Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx ⇒Pick up a make-up log -- or download one from Skyward -- to make-up your missed reading time. ⇒You may make-up the book pass during cave time in our classroom, after school in our classroom, or at the media center or public library.   This assignment is to help you get acquainted with books available in the classroom, but I would be happy if you just previewed other books that you haven't read  -- books you might want to read.  See the instructions above or just below this. You can pick up a book pass log in class or print your own. If you do this at home or at the public library, you will need to print only the first page of the  Book Pass Log.doc Preview six books that are new to you, filling out the log for each book.    ⇒When you return, make sure you get one set of hall passes, if you didn't already.

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

 Book Pass!

The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books. 

• Look at the cover.
• Read the blurb on the back of the book.
• Fill out a line on your log with the title.
• Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop-  about three minutes. 
• Fill out the rest of that line on your log about that book.
• Then do the same with the next book.  If you are doing this as make-up work, do the same for six books.