Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: Today is April 19. Cavetime on Thursday, April 20 will be an assembly for 7th grade.  Spirit Week 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!)

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

Today’s  Agenda:     1. Pick up your folder from the black crate at the back of the room, and go to your assigned seat. 2. Book Pass  -- Pick up a Book Pass paper from the front desks. 3.  Partner Fluency Practice -- The passage number is  "SCSS." *******************************************  Begin your BICUM Brochure Metacognition and BICUM!   You will have time to do recreational reading in this class,  but we will focus on STUDY-READING -- reading to learn and remember.  Metacognition!   Step One: Notice Your Thinking so you can really read when you're reading. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  IAMNOWHERE! BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition. 1. Check your own inner voice What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   How can you keep yourself focused in the first place?  Pair-Share  You can learn strategies to help yourself succeed in your reading tasks. 1. Check your own inner voice.  Your mind is working all the time, whether you are paying attention to it or not.  Noticing your own thinking is called METACOGNITION. Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw  When you are reading, you can control your thoughts so that you are having a conversation with the text.  This is called a CONVERSATIONAL VOICE and is USEFUL.  Today: We all have times when we are "reading,"  but really our thoughts are wandering to other subjects.  This voice within your head, when you really should be reading, is called a WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE. The best solution for the WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE is to gently bring you focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later. BEGIN YOUR BICUM BROCHURE Using a plain piece of paper -- colored or white, fold it into thirds -- hamburger-wise. 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. 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.           And to finish up --  Individual Quiet Reading and fill out your reading log for today.  Put away your folders in the numbered hanging folders in the black crate. ** A4 received handout with contact information and blog URL.

If You Were Absent: See above. Begin your BICUM Brochure -- filling in the first two panels as shown above. Complete the make-up reading, using the pink make-up log, or downloading one from Skyward.

Vocabulary: BICUM = Be in Control - Use Metacognition (Be in control of your own reading and learning. Learn to notice and control what is going on in your mind.)