Thursday, March 8, 2018

Announcements and Reminders  for Thursday, March 8, 2018: You may hand in your unused hall passes today.  Do not plan on leaving the room during class after you have handed them in. Hand in any late work!  Tomorrow is the last day of the term.

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 learn about improving my reading by using metacognition.

Today’s  Agenda for Thursday, March 8, 2018: 1. Pick up your folder from the black crate, find a book to read, and take your seat.        If you have completed your blog and/or wiki assignment, hand it in to the top wire basket.  2. Individual Reading and Filling out the Reading Log Read your choice of materials.  Read quietly until the teacher directs you to stop.  Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  1 2/20  x The Maze Runner  8-20  20  1/3  2 2/22 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 and fill out your graph. 4. Continue Brochures  of Reading Strategies and Skills              5. Add to your BICUM Brochure -- Inside Center 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 During Reading Be Active Notice your alignment with the text.  "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Notice Patterns Make Inferences  Predict               1) predict               2) read               3) check               4) compliment                                                          or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at  the 's  and  Test your Understanding. Yes, I do  understand. Mark and  highlight  text. Read to end of study block.  No, I don't  understand Use fix-up strategies: See the back of this brochure! *CRAAP Test-- Try it out? https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Take a quiz? Active Reading Pacing  yourself with a pencil --  or with your finger --  1.  Place your pencil on the first line of print about one inch from the beginning of the material. 2.  Move it across a line to about 1 inch before the right edge of the print. 3. Swing back to the next line 1.2 t0 1 inch from the left edge. 4. Again, move across the page to 1/2 to 1 inch before the end of the line.  More Active Reading: Noticing Patterns Seeing patterns    puzzled?    Can you see it?    What patterns did you learn in English class -- Text Structures? What other patterns? Highlighting Highlighting  Helpful Not helpful

If You Were Absent: See above. Don't forget to do your make-up reading.

Vocabulary: metacognition:  Thinking about your own thinking -- so you can do better thinking! BICUM -- an acronym for a set of strategies and skills you can use to improve your study-reading:  Be in Control -- Use Metacognition  The CRAAP Test:  A way to determine whether an information source is useful and reliable. C = currency R = relevancy A = Authority A = Accuracy P = Purpose The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources

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Currency

     How up-to-date is it?   

Relevance

      Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me?

Authority

       Who wrote or published this?

        What makes them an expert?

Accuracy

        Is the information correct?

         Can you verify it in more than one place?

Purpose

        Why did they create this?  to inform or teach?  to persuade?  

                              to sell?  to entertain? 

        How biased is it?   

Help and Enrichment