Wednesday/Thursday, January 3/4, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                            Scholastic Book Orders:  Use our class code when you order online:  GKLJW. Information for this class:  Bring your own pens and pencils.  It also helps to have your own lined paper.  If you have a book you want to read or that you need to read for your English or another class, bring it to read during our individual reading time.

Targets for Today: I can understand and follow the rules and procedures for this classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Find your seat on the seating charts.  2. Select a book to read -- from the books on the desks, and read it for a few minutes.   Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7.  How is your reading endurance? 3, Book Pass -- to get acquainted with some of the books in our classroom.   The teacher will tell you which way to pass the books.  Look at the cover.  Read the blurb on the back of the book.  Fill out a line on your log with the title.    Book Pass Log.doc Begin reading at the beginning of the book, and keep reading until you're told to stop -- about three minutes.  Fill out the rest of that line on your book pass log.  Then do the same with the next book.  Repeat.  4. We will discuss classroom policies and procedures. You will receive your disclosure document. Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx Reading 7 Disclosure Document2017-18.docx Receive hall passes. 5. 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 1-3-18 1-3-18 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.  6.  Set up your folders.  Line up with the rest of the class by last name.  On the flap, after the number, write your  Last name, First name Example:s Jones, Jill Smith, Howard ________________________________________

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 tap. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc When you come back, ask me for the disclosure document and hall passes, and your folder.

Vocabulary: Fluency: Endurance: