Friday, January 5, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                           Next week we will begin Cave Time.  I am available for you on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Wednesday is an enrichment day in my classroom:  Mock Trial. Thursday is Request Day.  Don't forget to hand in your disclosure signatures  and pre-assessement! Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx Reading 7 Disclosure Document2017-18.docx Next Thursday all seventh graders will have an assembly during Cave Time for College Week!   Today is National Bird Day!

Targets for Today: I can read quietly for an extended time -- hopefully enjoying it!  I can improve my fluency by better understanding my own reading habits, and by practicing!   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 assignments that will help you to better use the Internet for research.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Find your seat on the seating charts.   Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7.  2. Select a book to read -- either one you brought or one from our classroom shelves, and read it for fifteen to twenty minutes.   How is your reading endurance? 3. Receive and Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  1 12/5  x The Maze Runner  8-20  20  1/3  2 12/5 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 1-5-18 1-5-18 Passage SCSS SCSS Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 Let's fill it out together now. After you receive your folders, your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.  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 your focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later. If we have extra time, copy this into your BICUM Brochure: Add to your BICUM Brochure -- Inside Left Section -- Add this today!   Inside   Before Reading Complete a Self Check  Study Area  Emotions Level of  Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview 1. Read the title. Ask: What do I know  about this subject? 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. 5. Ask yourself: Is this a useful  and reliable  source?" You could use the CRAAP Test.  6. Select or  Create Questions 7. Set Study Length 8. Place check marks A3 used an article about corporations influencing government to practice the Before Reading Strategies.  A4 did not have time.

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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Vocabulary:  Metacognition:  thinking about your own thinking Conversational Voice Waste-of-Time Voice BICUM:  An acronym for Be In Control: Use Metacognition Recreational Reading Study Reading:  Reading to Learn

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