Announcements and Reminders Thursday, November 29, 2018:
During Reading -- Be Active -- (predictions/inferences, and other strategies for During Reading) -- Check for Understanding After Reading -- Reduce -- (Patterns, Highlighting, and Mind Mapping) November 29 -- After Reading -- Retain -- Mnemonics -- Use the loci system to learn the first ten U.S. Presidents. (If time, fix-up strategies) December 3 -- During Reading -- fix-up strategies -- RI = Reading Inventory After Reading -- Retain -- Use flashcards to study CRAAP, Bill of Rights, first ten presidents- December 5 -- Practice using Metacognition online -- Why not Wikipedia? December 7 -- Practice using Metacognition with an article December 11 -- Strategy review December 13 -- Final Test -- Turn in BICUM Brochure December 17 --Readathon and Test make-up, if needed Bring treats, if you wish, to the Readathon. |
Targets for Today:
I can read for enjoyment. I can read fluently. I know strategies to use after reading to retain (remember) the information. |
Today’s Agenda Thursday, November 29, 2018:
1. Individual reading.
How is your STUDY AREA for reading now? How are you feeling EMOTIONALLY? What is the LEVEL of Difficulty of the book or other text you're reading? How are you FEELING physically?
Fill out your reading log.
Example
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.
Today we are using " ."
Example
Don't neglect to fill out your graph. Your passage number is in the upper right corner of the page.
Mnemonics
Rehearse!
Remembering/Retaining Information
Using the LOCI method. 
How to Improve Your Memory
https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/how-to-improve-your-memory7.htm
This method works especially well if you're good at visualizing. Here's how it works:
Think of a place you know well, such as your own house.
Visualize a series of locations in the place in logical order.
For example, picture the path you normally take in your house to get from the front door to the back door.
Begin at the front door,
go through the hall,
turn into the living room,
proceed through the dining room
and into the kitchen, and so on.
As you enter each location, move logically and consistently in the same direction, from one side of the room to the other. Each piece of furniture could serve as an additional location.
Place each item that you want to remember at one of the locations.
When you want to remember the items, simply visualize your house and go through it room by room in your mind. Each item that you associated with a specific location in your house should spring to mind as you mentally make your way through your home.
Here's how it would work if you wanted to remember the following shopping list:
shaving cream
peaches
hot dogs
ketchup
ice cream
As you visualize your house, imagine spraying shaving cream all over the front door. Don't just imagine the word "shaving cream." Really see it as you depress the nozzle and spray the foam all over the front door. Try to imagine the smell of the shaving cream, as well.
Now open the door, enter the hall, and imagine a giant peach rolling down the steps in the front hall and heading right for you. Now walk into the living room, and visualize a six-foot-tall hot dog in a bun wearing a cowboy hat and lounging by the fireplace. Enter the dining room and picture a bottle of ketchup, dressed in an old-fashioned maid's uniform, setting the table. Finally, go to the kitchen and picture a gallon of ice cream, melting as it slaves over a hot stove.
After you've visually placed all your list items around the house, when you try to remember your shopping list, all you have to do is visualize your front door.
You will instantly see the shaving cream;
as you enter the hall, the peach will pop into your mind; and so on.
The more outrageous and unusual you make your mental images, the easier you'll find it is to remember them.
You can use this method to remember lists of items, important points in a speech, names of people at an event or meeting, things you need to do, even a thought you want to keep in mind. This method works well because it changes the way you remember, so that you use familiar locations to cue yourself about things. Because the locations are organized in an order that you know well, one memory flows into the next very easily.
For our activity, you will combine the loci method with making associations with familiar information.
"Fieldtrip"
At each sign, get the information for your worksheet, but also pay attention to the location and to the images you are asked to create in your mind.
Be on task, visit the posters IN ORDER, and return to the classroom as soon as you have finished.
The First Ten Presidents of the United States of America
Look for a clue to the next location on each poster. The first location is provided for you.
BICUM Brochure --
On the final test: Know what BICUM stands for, know and use the SELF Check, and know strategies you can use before reading, during reading, and after reading.
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If You Were Absent:
See above and complete the reading make-up assignment.
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Vocabulary:
loci -- a mnemonic using locations you know well
peg system -- a mnemonic using numbers and words that rhyme with them. |
Help and Enrichment
Try using the Loci system to memorize the first ten Presidents of the United States.
Our Mini-Field-Trip:
Loci is from the same root as Location.
Select a place that you know well, and as you move through it in your mind, place the items you are learning, or a representation of each, in specific places.
Here is another loci set --
For instance, for learning the first few Presidents of the United States, imagine walking into your house.
For me, as I walk in through the side door,
1) I first see my kitchen, and there is George Washington washing my dishes.
2) I walk into the front hall, and there is a man with a large Adam's apple --John Adams.
3) I turn into the living room, and there is Thomas Jefferson, inventing and drawing plans for a building (he was an inventor and architect).
4) As I walk up the stairs, on the stairs I see a bunch of boxes of Dolly Madison cakes. (James Madison was the next president.)
5) Then I look into the bedroom, and there on the bed is Marilyn Monroe. (James Monroe is the fifth president.
 6) In bathroom is a man rinsing off his hands in the sink. (Rinsey rhymes with Quincy) who asks me, "Did you see my dad in the hall downstairs?" This is the son of John Adams -- John Quincy Adams.8. In the third bedroom I see a bureau (chest of drawers),
with Martin Van Buren filling the drawers with his Doc Martens.
 9. As I walk back downstairs, and on down the next set of stairs, there in the family room is my son, repairing my computer (which is what he often does), but today he is a "hairy son." He has let his hair grow out, and his beard grow long. (William H. Harrison)
10. In the laundry room, my daughter is tying clothes together for John Tyler.
And that's the first ten presidents.
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