Thursday, August 30, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                            Don't forget to bring back your Disclosure Signatures with the assessment form on the back filled out.   They will be late after tomorrow. If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket.  Pick up your folder from the black crate and take out or find a book to read.        School Pictures will be         on September 6/7.

Targets for Today: I can read a variety of materials for an extended period of time. I can read fluently. I can use metacognition to increase my effectiveness as I read as study. I know strategies I can use to improve my reading comprehension.

Today’s  Agenda: Sit your assigned seat.  HAND IN YOUR DISCLOSURE PAPER IF YOU BROUGHT IT BACK.       MAKE SURE YOU FILLED OUT BOTH SIDES.  PICK UP YOUR FOLDER FROM THE CRATE AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM. THEY ARE ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME.  Before you read, do a self check:  a. S -- Study Area - What is your study area, and how easy is it to concentrate here? b. E -- Emotions -- What are your emotions right now?  c. L -- Level of Difficulty -- How hard to read is what you're about to read?  d. F -- How are you feeling physically right now?   1. INDIVIDUAL READING:  Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey will begin administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Fill out your reading log. # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 8/30/18 x The Last Cherry Blossom, pg. 107-119 Yuriko finds out something she didn't know about her mother and father.  20     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. 2.  One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice Today you will read "Turning Off the Faucet."  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.   3. Continue with Before Reading. Select or create questions Set Study Length -- For how long can I study before I'll need to, or should take a break?   Place Check Marks    Add to your BICUM BROCHURE. This goes in the middle of the inside: During Reading Be Active ➨ Check your alignment. ➨"Talk" with the author or text. ➨Visualize. ➨ Make Predictions      1) predict 2) read 3) check 4) compliment or correct      ➨ Pace yourself with a pencil, or better yet, with your finger. ➨ Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World ➨Stop every once in awhile to check 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! The right activities for a study break:  https://www.fastweb.com/student-life/articles/energizing-study-break-ideas-what-to-avoid

If You Were Absent: See above. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc Mammals 6.docx Make-Up Fluency Graph for Partner Reading.doc

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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:       Don't forget to bring back your Disclosure Signatures with the assessment form on the back filled out.   If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket. They are due by August 31 and will be counted late after that.  Pick up your folder from the black crate and take out or find a book to read.        School Pictures will be         on September 6/7.

Targets for Today: I can read independently for an extended period of time, and, hopefully, enjoy it. I can improve my reading fluency. I can understand and apply reading strategies (pre-reading strategies).

Today’s  Agenda: Sit your assigned seat.  HAND IN YOUR DISCLOSURE PAPER IF YOU BROUGHT IT BACK.       MAKE SURE YOU FILLED OUT BOTH SIDES.  PICK UP YOU FOLDER FROM THE CRATE AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM. THEY ARE ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME.  1. INDIVIDUAL READING:  Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey will begin administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Fill out your reading log. # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 8/28/18 x The Last Cherry Blossom, pg. 107-119 Yuriko finds out something she didn't know about her mother and father.  20     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. 2.  One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice Today you will read "Turning Off the Faucet."  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.   2.  Copy this onto your BICUM Brochure --    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 Apply the Before-Reading Strategies to an article, "Canine Empathy. . . ' A3 to Questions. A4 to Questions

If You Were Absent: See above. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc Mammals 6.docx Make-Up Fluency Graph for Partner Reading.doc

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Friday, August 24, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:            Don't forget to bring back your Disclosure Signatures with the assessment form on the back filled out.   If you have it, hand it in to your class top wire basket.  They are due by August 31 and will be counted late after that.  School Pictures will be on September 6/7.   The seventh/eighth-grade dance is this afternoon (Friday) immediately after school until 4:00.

Targets for Today: I can read for an extended time. I can read fluently. I know strategies I can use to improve my reading comprehension and retention (remembering).

Today’s  Agenda:  Sit your assigned seat.  HAND IN YOUR DISCLOSURE PAPER IF YOU BROUGHT IT BACK.       MAKE SURE YOU FILLED OUT BOTH SIDES.  PICK UP YOU FOLDER FROM THE CRATE AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM. THEY ARE ALPHABETICAL BY LAST NAME.  1. INDIVIDUAL READING:  Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. (Ms. Dorsey will begin administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.   Fill out your reading log. # Date B N M O Title -- Use ditto marks (“)  when continuing the same material.  Material read/Explanation/Read from page__ to page __ Minutes Read Total Hours Read Ex 8/24/18 x Hiroshima p 1-20 plane coming, people on the ground and what they're doing, the bomb is dropped  20     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. 2.  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 8-24-18 8-24-18 Passage 101 101 Words Per Minute 143 153 Your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in the folder.  3. BEGIN YOUR BICUM BROCHURE.  Fold a piece of colored paper into thirds -- hamburger-wise. Set it down with the folds facing you.     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] Metacognition and BICUM!   You will have time to do recreational reading in this class, but we will focus on STUDY-READING -- reading to learn and remember.  Step One: Notice Your Thinking so you can really read when you're reading. Metacognition = Noticing your own thinking.  Thinking about your thinking.  IAMNOWHERE! Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw  When  Kronk's voices were trying to convince him what he should do,  who was in charge?   More to know: BICUM -- Be in Control -- Use Metacognition. 1. Check your own inner voice What distracts you?  What keeps you from focusing on the thing you are supposed to be reading?  What do you do when you've been distracted and realize you haven't really been reading -- then what if you're just not getting it?   How can you keep yourself focused in the first place?  Pair-Share  You can learn strategies to help yourself  succeed in your reading tasks. 1. Check your own inner voice.  Your mind is working all the time, whether you are paying attention to it or not.  Noticing your own thinking is called METACOGNITION. When you are reading, you can control your thoughts so that you are having a conversation with the text.  This is called a  CONVERSATIONAL VOICE and is USEFUL.  We all have times when we are "reading,"  but really our thoughts are wandering to other subjects.  This voice within your head, when you really should be reading, is called a WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE. The best solution for the WASTE-OF-TIME VOICE is to gently bring you focus back to the reading material.  Tell yourself that you'll think about that other subject later.

If You Were Absent: See above. Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc Mammals 6.docx Make-Up Fluency Graph for Partner Reading.doc

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