Monday, May 1, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           Pick up your folder. Do a SELF Check. Do individual reading.

Targets for Today: I  can read for enjoyment and for learning. I know and can use strategies to improve my reading effectiveness.  I can read more fluently. -- If time.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folder. Do a SELF Check:        Study area,       Emotions,      Level of difficulty (of the material you're reading), and how you're       Feeling physically.   Do individual reading.     Don't forget to fill out your log. Today is May 1. 2. Partner Fluency Practice.    Don't neglect to fill out your graph. 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 (and place BICUM checks)                 ✔      On the final test:  Know what BICUM stands for, know and use the SELF Check, and know strategies you can use to get ready to read.            Your Brochure: Inside --- Today we are filling in the middle section Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. (and headings) Ask: What do I know about this subject? What does background mean? 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. (also illustrations -- Read the captions.) 5. Ask:  Is this a reliable and useful source?  Use ABC's or CRAAP Test if needed. 6. Select or  Create Questions (Set Purpose!) 7. Set Study Length During Reading Be Active ➨ Check your alignment. ➨"Talk" with the author or text. ➨Visualize. ➨ Make Predictions      1) predict 2) read 3) check 4) compliment or correct      Make Inferences. Read between the lines.  ➨ Pace yourself with a pencil, or better yet, with your finger. ➨ Make Connections!       Text to Self       Text to Text       Text to World ➨Stop every once in awhile to  check your understanding. Yes, I do  understand. Mark and highlight  text. Read to end of study block.  No, I don't  understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! Be Active

If You Were Absent:  See above for what we did. Complete the make-up reading, using the pink make-up log, or downloading one from Skyward. Students filled out the inside middle section of their BICUM Brochures. Students practiced the strategies with this article: trump-100-days-procon-29999-article_and_quiz.pdf We will finish next time.

Vocabulary:

Class Topics and Objectives: (Tentative Rotation 3 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? The CRAAP Test!
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