Monday, October 2, 2017

Announcements and Reminders for Monday, October 2, 2017:                           October 2     Learn about  Metacognition -- Brochure: Label Panels, Cover 4     Before Reading -- CRAAP Test  --        Practice:Preview Article? 6      Internet and the CRAAP Test  (CRAAP Test Test on October 12)  10    During Reading  -- Be Active --  (predictions/inferences)  Check for Understanding 12    More Internet and CRAAP Test -- Test on the CRAAP Test   16    During Reading -- Fix-Ups   (words in context -- context clues)  begin Mind Mapping 18    After Reading -- Reduce --  (Patterns and Mind Mapping) End of Term 1 25    After Reading -- Retain  --   Mnemonics  -- Use a peg system to learn the Bill of Rights 27    After Reading -- Retain --   Mnemonics  -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents. Also  how to use flashcards  to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents 31     Practice using Metacognition online  November 2       Practice using Metacognition  with an article 6     Final Test --  Turn in BICUM Brochure 8      Readathon and Test make-up, if needed               Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon. Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW.

Targets for Today: I can know and follow the rules and procedures for this classroom.  I can read quietly for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  I can begin learning about improving my reading by using metacognition.  For Your Grade for This Rotation Be on task in class! Keep up with your reading log. (Record the information about when and what and how long you’ve read every class time.) Keep up with your partner fluency graph. (Record the date, passage number or letters, and your words per minute after each time you read.) Complete make-up homework if you are absent or off-task in class. Create a neat and complete BICUM Brochure. Be able to show you can use the strategies from your brochure when reading. Use the strategies for retaining information to memorize the assigned sets of information. Complete and hand in the Internet assignments.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Find your seat on the seating charts.  2. Select a book to read -- either one you brought or one from our classroom shelves, and read it for a few minutes.   Notice the portion of the whiteboard for  Reading 7.   The Dark is Rising  by Susan Cooper A3 did not, A4 to page 4 "leapt back in alarm."   3. Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  1  10/2  x The Maze Runner  8-20  20  1/3  2  10/4 x  Cobblestone  about Washington,D.C.    20  2/3       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. 4. 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 10-2-17 10-2-17 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 5. Begin Brochures             -- fold a piece of colored paper into a tri-fold.   Inside -- Add this today!    Before  Reading During Reading After Reading #1 Outside  -- Add this today! After Reading#2 Continued from DURING  READING BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] 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.  Step One: Notice Your Thinking so you can really read when you're reading. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  Thinking about your thinking.  IAMNOWHERE! Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw  When  Kronk's voices were trying to convince him what he should do,  who was in charge?   More to know:  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. 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.  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.

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 tab. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc

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