Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Announcements and Reminders for Tuesday, April 16, 2019:                           Targets for this Rotation You will learn a set of reading strategies that you can apply -- especially to the reading you do to learn.  You will be able to tell about and use strategies for  Before Reading, During Reading, and  After Reading.  You will apply these strategies to reading and learning from various texts,                                    including texts you read on the internet.  By the end of his rotation, you will be know and apply The CRAAP Test for Reliability and Usefulness of sources,  a SELF-check for preparing to study-read,  and other strategies. You will apply strategies that we learn to memorize assigned material.  You will improve your reading fluency -- and graph your improvement. You will have spent hours reading for enjoyment -- and created a record of your in-class reading. The best way to improve your reading  is to read, read, read.  Tentative Schedule for our Class April 12 -- Introduction  Individual Reading  Book Pass and first Chapter  Create an appointment clock  Receive hall passes, addendum, reading log, fluency graph,  April 16 -- BICUM  = You will begin to  learn about metacognition and  tools/strategies                                           you can use, adding onto and improving the skills you have developed with Mrs. Fugal and Mrs. Cannon.                                    April 18 --   strategies to use before reading  -- self-check, previewing, etc.     (notice myself, my surroundings, my challenge)  April 22 --   During Reading Strategies   April 24 --   Media Center -- Using the CRAAP Test April 26 --   About Wikipedia and CRAAP Test Practice  April 30 --   Using Utah's Online Library/ Databases   May 2 --  Take a test on finding reliable and useful sources.                             Apply what you've learned.                             Know what each part of the acronym CRAAP means. May 6 --   During Reading - More Strategies   May 8 --   During Reading -- Using Fix-Up Strategies  May 10 --  After Reading -- Reduce May 14 --  After Reading -- Retain   (Retake the RI test.) May 16 --  Prepare for the Test  --  May 20 --  Final Test May 22 --  Look back at the test  May 24 --  Read-a-thon and Celebrate!   You may check out books from our classroom by going to CANVAS,  Announcements, Ms. Dorsey's Classroom Library Check-Out/Check-In or directly from here  to https://goo.gl/forms/3zjshLRdUMg3dWut2 (Links to an external site.)

Targets for Today: I can think about my own thinking. I have reading stamina. I can read fluently at an appropriate pace.

Today’s  Agenda for Tuesday, April 16, 2019: 1. Metacognition Mini-Lesson 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! meta -- back off and look at something to get a better view, a better understanding look at your own reading -- your reading experiences  how do you feel about reading set two to three goals for your reading   -- to improve  wikipedia --  Meta (from the Greek meta- μετά- meaning "after" or "beyond") is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction behind another concept, used to complete or add to the latter. meta go meta  = considers the effects of one's actions, instead of simply acting them out planning to use  the most effective tools possible   What does meta mean in ClashRoyale (video game) best strategy and cards to use based on stats and synergy. The meta changes after a balance change, update, or rise of a new strategy that counters the previous one 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? What is this video telling us about  thinking about your own thinking (metacognition)? How have you taken more control over your own thinking  as you read because of your rotations  with Mrs. Fugal and Mrs. Cannon?  Reading Strategies Provide Tools to Use  as You Take Control of Your Own Understanding  Practice this one today:  Visualizing  What are you seeing as you read?    2.  Individual Reading Time  # Date B N M O Title and Description and pages read Minutes Read Hours Read Ex 4/12/19 x Everlost – boy and girl died but stuck in kids-only world called Everlost  1-10    10 Ex 4/16/19 x Skyward – Spin wants to be a fighter pilot on a planet under attack by aliens    1-25    20 Visualizing:  From where were you seeing what was happening in your book?         From the viewpoint of a character?         As if you were watching a television show or movie?        From somewhere off to the side or from above?              That is called your alignment.  Recommended book:  The Alchemist: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott. Twin 15-year-old siblings Sophie and Josh Newman take summer jobs in San Francisco across the street from one another: she at a coffee shop, he at a bookstore owned by Nick and Perry Fleming.  In the very first chapter, armed goons garbed in black with "dead-looking skin and... marble eyes"  storm the bookshop, take Perry hostage and swipe a rare Book (but not before Josh snatches its two most important pages). The stolen volume is the Codex, an ancient text of magical wisdom. Nick Fleming is really Nicholas Flamel, the 14th-century alchemist who could turn base metal into gold, and make a potion that ensures immortality.  Sophie and Josh learn that they are mentioned in the Codex's prophecies.  Mayhem ensues, as Irish author Scott draws on a wide knowledge of world mythology to stage a battle between the Dark Elders and their hired gun against the forces of good, led by Flamel and the twins. Not only do they need the Codex back to stop Dee and company, but the immortality potion must be brewed afresh every month.  Time is running out, literally, for the Flamels. Proceeding at a breakneck pace, and populated by the likes of werewolves and vampires, the novel ends on a precipice, presumably to be picked up in volume two. Ages 12-up. 3.  Partner Fluency Practice and receive your Partner Fluency Practice Log.  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 4-12-19 4-12-19 Passage SCSS SCSS Words Per Minute 143 153 4. Create an appointment clock.   Making Appointments     On the paper provided, write in the numbers to make the circle a clock face.  Write the 12 and 6, then 3 and 9, then fill in the other numbers.  Move around the classroom to make "appointments" with other students.  Find one other student and pick a time on the clock face.   Near that number on the clock face, you will write your name on his or her clock and he or she will write his or her name on your clock.  Move on to another student and do the same thing with him or her.    Keep making appointments until all numbers have been used.   For each number on the clock you will have an "appointment" with one other student.    You will have only one appointment with any one student.   A mnemonic a day keeps the memory in play! The first five amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America 1. One finger put it to your lips  -- But, you can speak!             freedom of speech (and religion and assembly and petition and press) 2. Two fingers --    in the shape of a gun --  the right to bear arms 3. Three fingers -- Two's company, three's a crowd.     I don't have to let soldiers come live in my house. 4.  Four Fingers as in the four walls of my house.  Stay out of the four walls of my house.  Even policemen have to have a warrant before they can come in and search my home  and/or seize my belongings.  5.  Put up five fingers and use them to cover your mouth. You do not have to incriminate yourself-- testify against yourself. Before you leave, put away your folders  in the crate for your class  -- inside your assigned hanging folders.

If You Were Absent: See above and complete the make-up reading assignment for today.  Reading Log Make-Up Log 2018.doc

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