Friday, May 18, 2012

Reminder:  Don't forget that you need to bring your PowerPoints -- finished, ready to show -- on May 24.  Also, if you haven't handed in all of your website checklists -- or revised them if needed, get that done as soon as possible.

Self-Starter:   Individual Reading and Fill out Reading Log
(Retesting for San Diego Quick Test)

2. Partner Fluency


3. Time to meet with your celebrity project partner?

4.  Using Reading Strategies as you read the Internet.
See the tab above for Getting Acquainted with Reading Strategies 
More on Titanoboa!

External Text Features:
http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/site/sn/show.do?show=140671


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-Titanoboa-the-40-Foot-Long-Snake-Was-Found.html#



 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Titanoboa-at-the-Zoo.html


Today we discussed internal text structures and external text features.  We looked at how external text features look in books compared to how they show up on websites.  We also considered how they help us.

Recognizing Text Patterns (Internal Text Structures) Text Patterns are the ways the authors organize their writing.  They might organize the information as SEQUENCE, CHRONOLOGICAL, LIST, COMPARE AND CONTRAST, CAUSE AND EFFECT (Storyworks: Cause and Effect), QUESTION/ANSWER, PROBLEM/SOLUTION,  or DESCRIPTION, or a combination of patterns.
	Using  External Text Features   External Text Features are helps that aren’t just the main body of writing.  They include headings, subheadings, pictures, captions, bolded words, graphs, charts, tables of contents, sidebars, annotations, italics, etc.

originally published on May 6, 2012