Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Announcements and Reminders for Wednesday, October 25, 2017: Welcome to a New Term!  Ms. Dorsey made an error in recording the computer/internet packets, so those grades will go on Term 2!  You may still hand them in by October  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)                We did not  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.          Book orders go in today, and then again when I receive more orders.

Targets for Today: I can read for enjoyment, and increase my reading stamina. I can read fluently -- smoothly and correctly and clearly. After I read for learning, I can I can use strategies to remember the material I need to know.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Individual and Quiet Reading Time     and fill out your reading log. 2. Partner fluency practice with a new passage         and record on your graph, especially the top three cells, for each time you read.  Your Brochure:  Today we are filling out the left panel on the OUTSIDE. After Reading -- #2 RETAIN (Remember) Teach Someone Study in Groups Recreate in Writing (and drawing) Make Flash Cards Use mnemonics 1. Rhymes and Songs 2. Acronyms 3.  Acrostics 4. Mini-Stories 5. Picture Links Rehearse Continued from  DURING READING Fix-Up  Strategies  1. Check your  own inner  voice. 2. Focus on it,  and read it  again. 3. Try reading  it out loud. 4. Try reading  ahead a bit. 5.  Look for  any words (or  ideas or facts) that may be  getting in  your way. 6.  Ask  someone who  can help you. - - or mark it  with a ? for later. This panel has more text not shown here.  BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Mnemonics 2017

If You Were Absent: See above. Complete the make-up reading assignment.

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