Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                          .   There was a substitute teacher in Ms. Dorsey's classes today because the English department was meeting to plan how to better help you to learn.    Thank you to those who behaved well for the sub!   Scholastic Book Orders:   If you'd like to order Scholastic Books online, and benefit our classroom, go to http://pcool.scholastic.com/parentordering/login.jsp, register, and enter code GKLJW. To order through me without going online, bring me the filled out order form and a check written to Scholastic Book Orders. I'll be sending in orders on September 15, or sooner if I receive orders totalling $25 or more. Order forms are available on the back counter near the door.

Targets for Today: I can read on my own for enjoyment and understanding.  I can improve my reading fluency.  I can read and comprehend.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Find your new seat on the seating charts at the back and front of the classroom. 2. Pick up your folder from the black crate.   Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. 3. Turn in your computer packet if you brought it back finished.  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. 4.   One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Today you have a new passage to read.         Each pair gets one eraser and one white-board marker.        Keep the passage in your 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 #606 #606 Words Per Minute 143 153 5.  Read two articles and answer questions about them.      1) Floods       2) Dogs and Smell  One with a partner and one on your own.

If You Were Absent: 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 Find the articles in the Reading 7 Handouts file when you return.

Vocabulary: Metacognition:  Notice your own thinking, and thinking about your thinking.