Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Announcements and Reminders  for Tuesday, March 6, 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!

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 Tuesday, March 6, 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. Begin Brochures  of Reading Strategies and Skills           -- 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]   5. 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 *CRAAP Test-- Try it out? https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Take a quiz?

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?   

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