Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Sunday, April 22 was Earth Day! Continue to Celebrate!

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 during reading.

Today’s  Agenda for for Tuesday, April 24, 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 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 tostop. Receive and Fill out your reading log.  # Date B N M O Title, Explanation, Pages Minutes Total Hours  4 4/24 x  The Maze Runner  p. 34-56 20  1 hour       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        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.        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 your new graph for each time you read. Date 4-20-18 4-20-18 Passage 606 606 ⇐This will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 (example) 153 (example) 3. BICUM  -- Be in Control: Use Metacognition!   More on your Brochure:  We filled this out last time.  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.  Visualize Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World "Talk" with the author or text. Notice Patterns Make Predictions 1)  read      2) predict  3) read   4) check               5) compliment                            or  correct              Make Inferences Pace yourself with a pencil. 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! Practice with an Article During Reading Strategies  Strategies  to Help Yourself BE ACTIVE  as you Read  A.   Notice your Alignment:    2. Visualize 3. Make Connections  4.  Talk with the author or text.  Year-Round Schools? 5.  Notice Patterns     Patterns -- Name that Text Structure!             Description              Definition              List                      Random or                      Order of Importance or                      Spacial              Sequence              Chronological (Time Order)              Cause and Effect              Comparison-Contrast         A3 and A4 to partway through Patterns/Text Structure.    6.  Make Predictions               The Prediction Cycle                    1)  Read                    2) Predict                    3)  Read                    4)  Check                    5)  Compliment or Correct Prediction Practice 7.  Make Inferences Prediction is about what is to come.  Inference is about what is.   Inference is reading between the lines.   What is the author saying without directly stating it?  Words you need to know:  Imply =      to suggest Infer =       to conclude 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 _________________. A3 to here -- 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/ Kahoot for Inference: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/978adaa8-5737-49f5-bea7-73ff7ffda370 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.  It works best with your finger! 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If You Were Absent: See above.  If you are in the A4 class, complete the infence assignment above.  There is a post for it above.  Complete the reading make-up work.  Use the pink make-up log, or print one from Skyward or this blog.   Reading Log Make-Up Log 2015.doc Article to practice with:  us-citizens-rights-and-responsibilities-31099-article_and_quiz.pdf.pdf

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  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 if you are 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.