Thursday, January 18, 2018

Announcements and Reminders: If you have not handed in your disclosure signatures and strategies preassessment, hand them in now or as soon as possible. Hand in your Wikipedia Exercise and  Class Blog/Google Classroom Assignment.    Check your folder for a pink make-up log.  You will have one only if you have missed school or have not filled out your reading log.    If you have one, take it home to complete the make-up work.

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 improve my reading and learning by using metacognition.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Select a book to read -- either one you brought or one from our classroom shelves, and read it for about  twenty minutes.   2.  Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  2 1/11  x The Maze Runner  8-20  20  1/3  3 1/18 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. 3. One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice Today we are using "Turning Off the Faucet" on the other side of the poem we have been reading.        Fill out a column on your graph for each time you read. Date 1-18-18 1-18-18 Passage 606 606 Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 153 Making Inferences is very similar to Making Connections and Making Predictions. In fact, predictions are a type  of inference.  When you make inferences, you use clues from the text, memories, facts, experiences, and more to "read between the lines". You're not just looking forward to guess what will happen next, but you're looking at the whole text!  We will use an acronym to help us remember the important parts of making an inference.   KIC Key details/words --- clues from the text + what  I already knew. . . ..  Combine them  to come up with an inference Let's make some inferences about this picture. Pick a detail, infer something, and explain why that detail supports your inference.  What can you infer about the man on the right? What details support your inference? Why? What can you infer about the man on the left? What details support your inference? Why?    ___________________  A3 got to here on January 11, 2018 ___________________  A4 got to here on January 11, 2018 Making inferences is a life skill, not just a reading skill! You make inferences all the time as you meet new people, decide if a movie is going to be good or not, or try to figure out what happened to that thing that you lost.  Examples: A character has a diaper in her hand, spit-up on her shirt, and a bottle warming on the counter. You can infer that this character is a _________________. A character has a briefcase, is taking a ride on an airplane, and is late for a meeting. You can infer that this character is a ____________________. A character uses words like "stat" and "emergency" and "prep" and "operation." You can infer that this person works in the ____________________. A detective enters the house, which has been ransacked. He sees blood on the floor, and it leads out the back door. You can infer that ____________________. When you enter a house, you see backpacks by the door, small shoes scattered near them. You see an art easel, and a room with a doll house and a toy box. You can infer that there are __________________________. Your friend walks past you without smiling. Her head is hanging down. She wipes a tear away from her eye, and looks at her report card. You can infer that your friend _______________________________. You walk into the room and the teacher tells you to clear your desk and get out a piece of paper and a pencil. You can infer that  ______________________. http://softschools.com/examples/literary_terms/inference_examples/301/ Your Brochure: Outside  (Today we are doing the middle.) After Reading -- #2 RETAIN 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. 7. Add to your background knowledge!  You can do this before reading or during reading. Look it up on a reliable online site. Find a book for children on the topic. Watch a documentary or other educational program.  BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name] [Your Class Period] Fix-Up Strategies Practice using During Reading Strategies.

If You Were Absent: Complete the make-up reading work. If you haven't already done these --- Complete the Wikipedia exercise at home or during Cave Time:  Wikipedia Cloze Exercise 2018.docx Also, complete the Blog and Google Classroom assignment. Class Blog and Google Classroom Assignment .docx Link to the blog assignment answers: 2018 Rotation 1 Student Blog Assignment

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