Wednesday, May 3, 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 can read more fluently.  I know and can use strategies to improve my reading effectiveness.  May 3 --  During Reading: -  Read Activity

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 3. 2. Partner Fluency Practice.    Don't neglect to fill out your graph. Your passage number is in the upper right corner of the passage. 3.  Take the CRAAP Test test. 4.  Using Reading Strategies During Reading  Your Brochure: Inside  -- We haven't yet done the section to the right. 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 Alignment from where are you seeing it? Is it like watching a movie? Are you standing to the side of the main character? Are you seeing it from above? Are you the main character?  Active Reading Pacing  yourself with a pencil --  or with your finger --  1.  Place your finger on the first line of print about one inch from the beginning of the material. 2.  Move it across a line to about 1 inch before the right edge of the print. 3. Swing back to the next line 1.2 t0 1 inch from the left edge. 4. Again, move across the page to 1/2 to 1 inch before the end of the line.  ---- Try reading part of the pro and con article about Trump pacing yourself with your finger. Make Predictions  Words you need to know:  prediction:  about what is to come inference: about what is (reading between the lines, What is the author saying without directly stating it?)  This is the prediction cycle:  1) predict 2) read 3) check (to see whether you were right) 4) compliment (yourself on getting it right) or correct (your thinking using the new information).  Storytime  -- You will receive a sheet of plain paper.  Fold it in half.  On each half you will draw something as you are directed to.  Write your name somewhere on that paper.  Predicting  Practice --   Label your first half sheet --    #1  "The Goblin Book" The title of the first story is titled "The Goblin Book." What do you think might happen in this story?  A3 worked to here.  Label your second  half sheet --    #2 --   Predicting  Practice -- How could these words be related to each other in a story?  How about these?  How could these words be related to each other in a story?        bed                   spider                  mother                  kill                       sheets                                       book A4 worked to here. Draw a picture that expresses how you feel about spiders.  Think about experiences you have had with spiders.   Listen to the story. Skittering (If you are absent, read the story here.) Soundtrack from spiders scene in Something Wicked This Way Comes Helpful Not helpful

If You Were Absent:

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

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