Monday, August 28, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: for Thursday, August 28, 2017                           4H Clubs begin on Monday, August 28.  The 4H leader will be here August 23rd after school and Friday, August 25 during  both lunches for students to sign up for clubs. School Pictures will be taken during math classes on Thursday and Friday, August 31 and September 1. Cavetime will begin on Tuesday, September 5.  Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW. Information for this class:  Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time. Go to this post for a list of needed materials for this class: Welcome to Reading 7 -- 2017-2018 -- Back-to-School Shopping Suggestions

Targets for Today: I can read quietly and individual.  I can show what I know about words. I can read fluently.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Find your assigned seat.     Turn in your disclosure signature sheets, if you have them ready.     Don't forget to fill out the back 2. Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey be administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Fill out your reading log. # 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 8/20/13 x Scholastic Scope, Sept. 2013 pages 4-9  “Malala the  Powerful” 15     If you're absent, or were off-task during reading time, or didn't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework. 3.   One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.       Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        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 a column on your graph for each time you read. Date 8-22-17 8-22-17 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 After you receive your folders, your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.  4.  Set up your folders.  Line up with the rest of the class by last name.  On the flap, after the number, write your  Last name, First name Example:s Jones, Jill Smith, Howard 5.  Complete a crossword using vocabulary from computers and Internet.

If You Were Absent: See above.   To make up for the reading time you missed, read at home for 20 minutes, record the title, and get a parent signature confirming that you read. You could download and print this file.  To open it, click on this link, then click on the download tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

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