Monday, April 17, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                Welcome to Reading 7, Semester 2, Rotation 3!  If you were in Mr. Gillis' class, you are in the right place. If you were in Ms. Dorsey's class, find Mrs. Fugal's classroom -- room 204. Find your seat on the seating charts at the front and back of the room. Spirit Week Monday: crazy socks and sandals (wear sandals so we can see those crazy socks!) Tuesday: black out (wear all black clothing) Wednesday: hat day Thursday: jersey day (wear your favorite team or club's jersey, t-shirt, or hoody ... this can be a caveman or professional/collegiate teams, et cetera ...  remember dress code still applies, this means you may need an undershirt to go under your jersey) Friday: caveman day (wear your caveman gear or dress up in white, red, and black!)

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Targets for Today:  Students will understand rules and procedures for our classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your seat on the seating chart at the front or back of the room. Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back of the room.     Pick up a Reading Strategies Chart and begin filling it out.  1. Start filling out your reading strategies pre-assessment. If you don't get your reading strategies filled out today, it is due by Friday, April 21. 2.  How to hand in papers  (Hand in your disclosure quiz.) How to receive work back Where to find no-name papers.  How to save and organize your work How to find out what we did on a day you've been absent  And what to do if you've been absent Where to find handouts when you've been absent Where to go if we evacuate the school Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7. Targets for this Rotation You will learn a set of reading strategies that you can apply -- especially to the reading you do to learn.  You will be able to tell about and use strategies for  Before Reading, During Reading, and  After Reading.  You will apply these strategies to reading and learning from various texts,                                    including texts you read on the internet.  By the end of his rotation, you will be know and apply The CRAAP Test for Reliability and Usefulness,  A SELF check for preparing to study-read,  and other strategies. You will apply strategies that we learn to memorizing assigned material.  You will improve your reading fluency -- and graph your improvement. You will have spend hours reading for enjoyment -- and create a record of your in-class reading. Probably the best way to improve your reading  is to read, read, read.  3.   Ms. Dorsey will briefly introduce herself.   Ms. Dorsey -- A Bit About Me Your folder is in the black crate for your class  -- at the back of the room.            This will be your folder and computer number.  Example:     25. Smith, Mary  4. 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 4-17-17 4-17-17 Passage SCSS SCSS ⇐Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 (example) 153 (example) Let's fill it out together now. Your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in your folder.  4. Individual Reading and Filling out the Reading Log Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!" 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 4/17/17 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.

If You Were Absent:  Pick up a Reading Strategies Chart from the handouts file -- or download and print it from here: Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx When you return, make sure you get one set of hall passes.

Vocabulary:

Class Topics and Objectives: (Tentative Rotation Schedule)
1. April 17 -- Class Procedures and Targets
2.  April 19 -- What is metacognition, and how can I use it as I read to learn?
3.  April 21 -- How can I use metacognition as I read to learn on the Internet?
                            What information is reliable?
4.  April 25 -- Why not Wikipedia?  How can I find better sources?
5.  April 27 -- When I use information from the Internet, how can I avoid plagiarizing?
6.  May 1 --  Before Reading:  -Know your SELF and Preview and Prepare
7.  May 3 --  During Reading: -  Read Activity

8.  May 5 --  During Reading:   - Use Fix-Up Strategies

9.  May 9 -- After Reading:  Reduce/Organize

10.  May 11 -- After Reading:  Retain (Remember)

11.   May 15 -- After Reading:  More on Remembering 

12.   May 17 -- Final Tests on Strategies (BICUM), the content you memorized, and CRAAP

13.  May  19 -- Wind-Up

14.  May 23 -- Readathon