Friday, March 31, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           We will begin with individual, quiet reading.  Pick up your folder and a book, and be in your seat reading by the time the bell rings.  Calendar for this class:  March 29: -- Noticing Text Patterns (Internal Structures) and  Organizing for Recall  March 31: Remembering  April 11:  Hand in your BICUM Brochures and take the test on BICUM Reading (Can you remember the BICUM strategies, the CRAAP test,  and can you remember the topics for The Bill of Rights?)   Learn This for Your Final Test April 13: Readathon!   April 13 Read-a-thon!  Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket,  if you wish.  Make a note for yourself to bring treats!

Targets for Today:  Read for enjoyment.   Practice reading fluently.  Learn more strategies for effective study reading.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual reading -- shortened version -- and fill out your reading log. 2. Fluency practice -- and fill out your graph. 3. More BICUM Brochure and strategies  Your Brochure: Outside  -- Left panel  After Reading -- #2 RETAIN (Remember) Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing (and drawing) Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics 1. Rhymes and Songs 2. Acronyms 3.  Acrostics 4. Mini-Stories 5. Picture Links  The Peg System Rehearse Continued from  DURING READING BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Click on this Link to learn about  Mnemonics 2017.

If You Were Absent: Study this post.   Complete the make-up reading.  Work on your BICUM Brochure. Learn This for Your Final Test or  See below (on this post) for your study guide materials.

Vocabulary:  Mnemonic: something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula. -- from dictionary.com

Remember for BICUM:  (Students each received a copy of this.) Be able to tell which strategies you could at each step in the reading process. Before 1. Self-Check STUDY AREA, EMOTIONS, LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY,  FEELING PHYSICALLY 2. Preview 3. Select or create questions. 4. Set study length – time and amount. During Reading 1. Be Active        check your alignment (where you're seeing it from)        talk with the author or text        visualize        make connections        predict        infer        pace yourself with  your finger 2. Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding. If you do understand, go on reading. If you don’t understand, use fix-up strategies 1.     Check your Inner voice 2.     Read it again 3.     Read it out loud 4.     Read ahead 5.     Define words 6.     Ask someone who would know 7.     Add to your Background Knowledge After Reading 1. Reduce             What did I learn?             Structure?             Central idea? 2. Organize for Recall             Outline             Notes             Summaries             Maps 3.  Retain (Remember)             Teach             Groups             Recreate (write it)             Flash Cards             Mnemonics             Rehearse

      Study again The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources.

• Practice reducing and retaining by illustrating the items you need to know. 
• Check off your drawings with the teacher.  Use them to study for the test. 

Peg System:

1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about the first amendment:

 "Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be

Freedom of Religion and Assembly,

Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,

Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."

2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.

3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.

4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

5. Hive --  Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did!  Admit you’re guilty!”

Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)

6.  Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.

7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors up on a cloud (in heaven).  This is the right to a trial by jury.

8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.

This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.

9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.

10.  Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.

Student Example