Monday, April 17, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                Welcome to Reading 7, Semester 2, Rotation 3!  If you were in Mr. Gillis' class, you are in the right place. If you were in Ms. Dorsey's class, find Mrs. Fugal's classroom -- room 204. Find your seat on the seating charts at the front and back of the room. Spirit Week Monday: crazy socks and sandals (wear sandals so we can see those crazy socks!) Tuesday: black out (wear all black clothing) Wednesday: hat day Thursday: jersey day (wear your favorite team or club's jersey, t-shirt, or hoody ... this can be a caveman or professional/collegiate teams, et cetera ...  remember dress code still applies, this means you may need an undershirt to go under your jersey) Friday: caveman day (wear your caveman gear or dress up in white, red, and black!)

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Targets for Today:  Students will understand rules and procedures for our classroom.

Today’s  Agenda: Find your seat on the seating chart at the front or back of the room. Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back of the room.     Pick up a Reading Strategies Chart and begin filling it out.  1. Start filling out your reading strategies pre-assessment. If you don't get your reading strategies filled out today, it is due by Friday, April 21. 2.  How to hand in papers  (Hand in your disclosure quiz.) How to receive work back Where to find no-name papers.  How to save and organize your work How to find out what we did on a day you've been absent  And what to do if you've been absent Where to find handouts when you've been absent Where to go if we evacuate the school Notice the portion of the whiteboard for Reading 7. 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,  A SELF check for preparing to study-read,  and other strategies. You will apply strategies that we learn to memorizing assigned material.  You will improve your reading fluency -- and graph your improvement. You will have spend hours reading for enjoyment -- and create a record of your in-class reading. Probably the best way to improve your reading  is to read, read, read.  3.   Ms. Dorsey will briefly introduce herself.   Ms. Dorsey -- A Bit About Me Your folder is in the black crate for your class  -- at the back of the room.            This will be your folder and computer number.  Example:     25. Smith, Mary  4. Partner Fluency Practice Partner Fluency will help you feel comfortable reading out loud. Your partner can also help you notice what kind of mistakes you make (long pauses, skipping words, saying the wrong word, etc.) so that you can work on those and get better!      One-Minute Partner Fluency Practice        Each partner gets a page protector and a copy of the poem to read.        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 your new graph for each time you read. Date 4-17-17 4-17-17 Passage SCSS SCSS ⇐Usually this will be a number! Words Per Minute 143 (example) 153 (example) Let's fill it out together now. Your fluency graph and your sheet protector with the poem inside will stay in your folder.  4. Individual Reading and Filling out the Reading Log Just for fun!  Julian Smith -- "I'm Readin' a Book!" Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time.   It counts on your grade!    Fill out every part of the line for each day: date, type of material read, title, something about what you read, minutes read. This log should stay in your folder!! # 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 4/17/17 x The Fourth Stall  p. 46-55 15     If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

If You Were Absent:  Pick up a Reading Strategies Chart from the handouts file -- or download and print it from here: Reading Strategies Pre-Assess Chart.docx When you return, make sure you get one set of hall passes.

Vocabulary:

Class Topics and Objectives: (Tentative Rotation Schedule)
1. April 17 -- Class Procedures and Targets
2.  April 19 -- What is metacognition, and how can I use it as I read to learn?
3.  April 21 -- How can I use metacognition as I read to learn on the Internet?
                            What information is reliable?
4.  April 25 -- Why not Wikipedia?  How can I find better sources?
5.  April 27 -- When I use information from the Internet, how can I avoid plagiarizing?
6.  May 1 --  Before Reading:  -Know your SELF and Preview and Prepare
7.  May 3 --  During Reading: -  Read Activity

8.  May 5 --  During Reading:   - Use Fix-Up Strategies

9.  May 9 -- After Reading:  Reduce/Organize

10.  May 11 -- After Reading:  Retain (Remember)

11.   May 15 -- After Reading:  More on Remembering 

12.   May 17 -- Final Tests on Strategies (BICUM), the content you memorized, and CRAAP

13.  May  19 -- Wind-Up

14.  May 23 -- Readathon

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                            If you were absent on the 11th, prepare to take your tests during the Readathon on the 13th.   The test is on  The Bill of Rights -- Be able to tell what the topic is for each.  BICUM strategies -- know at least two for each panel of your brochure, know strategies for reading actively, and know what each letter in SELF means in the Before-Reading step.   The CRAAP test -- Know the word and its meaning.   Here are the review materials:   Learn This for Your Final Test Today is our Readathon.  Don't forget to bring treats if you wish to.   This is your brain on books! Today is our Readathon! If you want to bring treats, don't forget!  Hand in your BICUM Brochure if you haven't.   You will leave your folders in the black crate.  Ms. Dorsey will pass them to Mr. Gillis.  Next time you will go to Ms. Fugal's classroom.             →     →  →

Targets for Today:  Prepare to end the rotation and move on to Ms. Fugal's class, and READ!

Today’s  Agenda: 1.  Turn in your unused hall passes.  2.  One more round of partner fluency!   Receive a new passage to use today.  Complete partner fluency and record on your graph.  3.  Take all partner fluency passages and the page protector out of your folder.  There is a box for you to put them in.   4.  Readathon -- not a talkathon!               You will be quietly reading MOST of the time.  You may sit ALMOST anywhere you want -- including sitting on the floor,    however, the teacher reserves the right to place you in a seat of his choosing     if you are not on task -- reading!  You may read your choice of materials.  Enjoy treats, but be careful not to make a mess, and do clean up after yourself.   * * * * * * * * * * * * If you have not taken -- or if I have contacted you to retake -- the final tests,  you will do that today during the Readathon.   I will assign you a place to sit while you test.   Hand in your BICUM Brochure if you haven't -- before you take the test.  Possible breaks for. . . . .  Brian Regan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou4yaF-gACs Studio C https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mR8-loJNpU http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Watch-a-Florida-Middle-Schools-Reading-Flash-Mob-Video

If You Were Absent:

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Vocabulary:

CRAAP

C = Currency -- How up-to-date is it?

R = Relevance -- Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me?

A = Authority --
   Who wrote or published this?
   What makes them an expert?

A = Accuracy -- 

Is the information correct?
Can you verify it in more than one place?

P = Purpose --  Why did they create this?  to inform or teach?  to persuade?  

                              to sell?  to entertain? 

        How biased is it?   

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Announcements and Reminders:                           We will begin with studying in groups -- a strategy from your BICUM Brochure.   Prepare for your test on  The Bill of Rights BICUM strategies the CRAAP test If you were absent on the 11th, prepare to take your tests during the Readathon on the 13th.   Calendar for this class:  March 31: Remembering  April 11:  Hand in your BICUM Brochures and take the test on BICUM Reading (Can you remember the BICUM strategies, the CRAAP test,  and can you remember the topics for The Bill of Rights?)   Learn This for Your Final Test April 13: Readathon!   Next time!  April 13 Read-a-thon!  Bring treats, pillow to sit on, blanket,  if you wish.  Make a note for yourself to bring treats! Next time! Next time, hand in your unused hall passes!

Targets for Today:  Use strategies to retain/remember.  Show what you know by testing.   Practice reading fluently. Read for enjoyment.

Today’s  Agenda: Pick up your folder.  1. Study together for the tests you will take today, and make sure your BICUM Brochure is finished and ready to turn in.  2. Fluency practice -- and fill out your graph. Turn in your BICUM Brochure 3. Tests on   The Bill of Rights (The First Ten Amendments)   BICUM Brochure and strategies    The CRAAP Test 4. Individual reading and fill out your reading log.

If You Were Absent: Study this post. Be prepared to hand in your completed BICUM Brochure next time, and take the tests. Complete the make-up reading.  Learn This for Your Final Test or  See below (on this post) for your study guide materials.

Vocabulary:  Mnemonic: something intended to assist the memory, as a verse or formula. -- from dictionary.com

Remember for BICUM:  (Students each received a copy of this.) Be able to tell which strategies you could at each step in the reading process. Before 1. Self-Check STUDY AREA, EMOTIONS, LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY,  FEELING PHYSICALLY 2. Preview 3. Select or create questions. 4. Set study length – time and amount. During Reading 1. Be Active        check your alignment (where you're seeing it from)        talk with the author or text        visualize        make connections        predict        infer        pace yourself with  your finger 2. Stop every once in awhile to check your understanding. If you do understand, go on reading. If you don’t understand, use fix-up strategies 1.     Check your Inner voice 2.     Read it again 3.     Read it out loud 4.     Read ahead 5.     Define words 6.     Ask someone who would know 7.     Add to your Background Knowledge After Reading 1. Reduce             What did I learn?             Structure?             Central idea? 2. Organize for Recall             Outline             Notes             Summaries             Maps 3.  Retain (Remember)             Teach             Groups             Recreate (write it)             Flash Cards             Mnemonics             Rehearse

      Study again The CRAAP Test for Finding Trustworthy Sources.

• Practice reducing and retaining by illustrating the items you need to know. 
• Check off your drawings with the teacher.  Use them to study for the test. 

Peg System:

1. Bun – Picture a bun wrapping about the first amendment:

 "Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be

Freedom of Religion and Assembly,

Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,

Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."

2. Shoe – Picture a Bear wearing shoes – The right to bear arms.

3. Tree – It’s a quarter tree – You don’t have to quarter soldiers.

4. Door – You don’t have to let them in unless they have a valid search warrant. Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures.

5. Hive --  Bees are buzzing in your ears saying, “Tell us what you did!  Admit you’re guilty!”

Freedom from self-incrimination (due process of law)

6.  Sticks – Chasing the judge with sticks demanding the right to a speedy trial.

7. Heaven – Picture a jury box full of jurors up on a cloud (in heaven).  This is the right to a trial by jury.

8. Gate – It would be cruel and unusual for someone to slam a person’s hand in a gate.

This amendment protects us from cruel and unusual punishment.

9. Line – Stand in the RIGHT line to get your Individual RIGHTS. Many individuals would be standing there.

10.  Hen – Picture the Governor standing on the Capitol steps holding a hen, demanding STATES RIGHTS.

Student Example

CRAAP

C = Currency -- How up-to-date is it?

R = Relevance -- Is it what I need or want?  Does it help me?

A = Authority --
   Who wrote or published this?
   What makes them an expert?

A = Accuracy -- 

Is the information correct?
Can you verify it in more than one place?

P = Purpose --  Why did they create this?  to inform or teach?  to persuade?  

                              to sell?  to entertain? 

        How biased is it?