Monday, March 27, 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:  Today: Fix-Up Strategies  March 29:  Reducing to Learn  Noticing Text Patterns (Internal Structures) Organizing for Recall  March 31: Remembering  April 11:  Hand in your BICUM Brochures and take the test on BICUM Reading (Can you remember the CRAAP Test and the BICUM strategies, 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: I can read for an extended time from materials  of my own choice.  I  know and can chose from strategies to make my reading more effective.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual Quiet Reading and fill out your log.  (If you are missing points for the reading log, take home a pink make-up sheet.) Watch for a word you don't know.   Write it down, and we will have time to look it up later.       Fill out your reading log.  2. Making inferences -- quick quiz.  3.  Partner Fluency Practice  and fill out your graph.  (Make sure you fill in the date, passage, and your words per minute for each time you read.)  The passage number is in the upper right hand corner.  4. More BICUM Brochure            ⇩ 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] Online  Our School website -- Pioneer Online Library  World Book Student Bill of Rights Ebsco History Reference Center Bill of Rights Correcting the CONSTITUTION. Read http://www.historyforkids.net/bill-of-rights.html http://quatr.us/northamerica/after1500/government/billofrights.htm Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYEfLm5dLMQ 5. What to do with unfamiliar words.       Using the dictionary -- Complete an exercise. Did anyone find a word in their reading?   Now use these words.   How quickly can you find them, each with the first definition? Write on the back of your inference paper.   1. If you are on the first row of the classroom, use      bilk, assuage, or chiropteran. 2. If you are on the second row of the classroom, use  arrogate, nuncupative, or superfluous. 3. If you are on the third row, use adz, ³wax (verb), or haulm. 4. If you are on the fourth row, use  acerbic, transient, or tergiversate.       Using . . . . . . Figuring Out Words in Jabberwocky -- How do you know what these words are doing in the sentence? Just for fun you could listen to this song based on the poem --  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5BCo6YPHLs       Using Context Clues -- Look forward to this with Mrs. Fugal. A3 to here.   Did not receive study handouts. A4 also to here.  Ditto.

If You Were Absent: See above. Do your make-up reading and report it on the pink make-up sheet.  Learn This for Your Final Test

Vocabulary: Fix-Up Strategies -- strategies you can use to help when you're not understanding the text