Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Announcements and Reminders:                               You may still hand in your Disclosure Signatures with the assessment form on the back filled out.  In fact, please do.  They are late now, but will still receive most of the points.   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. Parent Teacher Conference will be this Thursday, September 13, 3:30 to 5:30 pm.  See the red link for more details.                Class Code - GKLJW                    Scholastic Book Orders                                            Order Due Date - 09/14/18

Targets for Today: I can read a variety of materials for an extended period of time. I can improve my reading fluently. I can better understand what fake news is and how to avoid it.   I can use metacognition to increase my effectiveness as I read and study. I know strategies I can use to improve my reading comprehension.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Quiet Individual Reading Time   Select a book to read and read quietly for about 20 minutes. What is your alignment as you read your book at the beginning of class?  Is it like watching a movie or a TV show? Is it as if you are the main character? Is it as if you are standing next to the main character? Are you somewhere else in the scene?  Are you seeing the action from above?   (Ms. Dorsey will continue administering the San Diego Quick Test of reading skills to students -- one at a time.)   Fill out your reading log.  Example   9-12-18  x "Grit" in Costco Magazine pp. 46-49.  Anyone can choose to develop grit which adds endurance to enthusiasm. 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. Partner Fluency Practice.        Participate appropriately as both reader and listener.       Fill out your fluency graph for each time you read.  Example Date 9-12-18 9-12-18 Passage 618 618 Words Per Minute 143 (your own WPM) 153   (your own WPM) More BICUM (Be in Control, Use Metacognition.)   Your Brochure: Inside  This is what you have so far on the 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:  Is this a reliable and useful source?  Use ABC's or CRAAP Test if needed. 6. Select or Create Questions (Set Purpose!) 7. Set Study Length 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    ➨Make Inferences  ➨ 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! After Reading -- #1 Talking with the Author or Text         (Practice: article about school uniforms)        What would you say if you could              speak directly to the author?  Work with a partner.  Receive an article and write your name (first and last) at the top. Read each paragraph, then discuss what you would say if you could speak directly with Michelle Kouzmine.   Take notes right on the article -- right by the part you are reacting to.  You have 9 minutes.        Predicting This is the prediction cycle:  1) predict 2) read 3) check (to see whether you were right) 4) compliment (yourself on getting it right) or correct (your thinking using the new information).  [Continue reading if there is more.]  Practice Predicting   How could these words be related to each other in a story?        path    shortcut                                  tunnel                         white bricks off-limits    warm air  How could these words be related to each other in a story?        bed                   spider                  mother                  kill                       sheets                                       book How could these words be related to each other in a story?        nine-year-old girl stuffed animal rat How could these words be related to each other in an article?  “largest 4th of July celebration in the United States.”  a well- paved, 2-hour hike enormous dinosaur museum 1849 that Mormon settlers came to live in the area        2,144 square miles

If You Were Absent: Complete the reading make-up assignment. Ask for the school uniforms assignment and respond in writing on the article to what the author has to say. Look above for the prediction cycle.  Learn it, and practice using it.

Vocabulary:

Help and Enrichment  Talk with the author or text.