Wednesday, January 18, 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. It is due today.

Targets for Today: 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 hand in your disclosure signature sheet and strategies pre-assessment. 2. 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.  4. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  BEGIN YOUR BICUM BROCHURE Using a plain piece of paper -- colored or white, fold it into thirds -- hamburger-wise. Write neatly and legibly.   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, illustrations. 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 8.  Chunk the Assignment: Decide how often you are going to stop to check how you are doing.  A.  List all the places you study.  Put them in order from best for studying to worst for studying.  The "Cocktail Party."   B.  What is the most difficult type of reading that you do?  Why is it hard?   (Snowball Activity) 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)