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Announcements and Reminders:
Count-Down to End of Term: 6 class periods, then the Readathon, then we are done! For catching up on the BICUM Brochure: BICUM BrochureExtra credit opportunity: Use the Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights
You can earn 2 points for each amendment.
Be able to recite them in order and briefly explain what each means-- using the peg system.
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Targets for Today:
I know strategies I can use to comprehend (understand) what I read, and to remember it. I am computer/internet savvy! |
Today’s Agenda:
1. Pick up your folder, please.
2. Individual Reading. Fill out your reading log. Take home any make-up work in your folder (pink).
3. Inference Practice! (A3 do #1 . A4 do #2.) |
5. Your Brochure: Outside
Today
RETAIN
(Remember)
1. Rhymes and Songs
2. Acronyms
3. Acrostics
4. Mini-Stories
5. Picture Links
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Continued from
DURING READING
Stop at the  's and Test your Understanding.
| BICUM Be in Control: Use Metacognition [Your Name]
[Your Class Period]
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6. Noticing Patterns
Noticing Patterns helps us understand and remember.
What text patterns (Text Structures) did you (or will you) learn about in English class?
How is reading like solving a puzzle?
Class responses:
You put the pieces together (in a mystery book) to figure out who did it.
The author might give out bits and piece scattered throughout the book. You need to recall previous pieces.
It helps to know the central idea.
When you get some the pieces or ideas you can begin to see the central idea!
If you understand how it usually works, you can make it work better .
YOu have to put the pieces together.
Sometimes there are plot twists, and you have to piece it together.
You have to think about and understand all the pieces.
Both can be really hard.
You can identify parts that will help you put the whole together.
If you know the genre and the conventions of the genre, it helps!
It helps to understand the central idea.
Noticing Patterns helps us understand and remember.
What text patterns (Text Structures) did you (or will you) learn about in English class?
How is reading like solving a puzzle?
Class responses:
You put the pieces together (in a mystery book) to figure out who did it.
The author might give out bits and piece scattered throughout the book. You need to recall previous pieces.
It helps to know the central idea.
When you get some the pieces or ideas you can begin to see the central idea!
If you understand how it usually works, you can make it work better .
YOu have to put the pieces together.
Sometimes there are plot twists, and you have to piece it together.
You have to think about and understand all the pieces.
Both can be really hard.
You can identify parts that will help you put the whole together.
If you know the genre and the conventions of the genre, it helps!
It helps to understand the central idea.
- You have to put the pieces together.
- Working together with others on understanding can help, if everyone is focused on getting the job done.
- Background knowledge helps.
- Treating the task as solving a mystery can make it more interesting.
- Asking questions can help.
- Recognizing the relationships among the pieces can help.
One type of pattern is sequence!
We did some sequencing last time.
How do I identify a text structure/pattern?
What sorts of transitions am I seeing?
What are the relationships among the ideas?
Text Structure
A4 viewed stereograms:
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| When you recognize a pattern, it helps you to understand and remember. |
7. Other things to do AFTER READING: Review
Central Ideas Review
What is a central idea?
1. the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about
It must be a complete sentence that includes the topic and a statement about it.
We look for the central idea in nonfiction, and for the theme in fiction.
synonyms
key point
main idea
the point
what it's all about
1. the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about
It must be a complete sentence that includes the topic and a statement about it.
We look for the central idea in nonfiction, and for the theme in fiction.
synonyms
key point
main idea
the point
what it's all about
How do I identify it?
- The overall gist
- What is most of it about, and what is the author saying about that?
- Repeated words
- Repeated synonyms and pronouns
- Is there one sentence that just seems to wrap up everything else?
- If not, are there parts of more than one sentence that I could put into one sentence, and it would wrap up everything else?
Where could I find it in the passage?
At the beginning
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| At the end |
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| In the middle |
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| Not stated directly -- just implied |
mnemonics
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Mnemosyne (in mythology) was
a titan (a giant who was sort of like a goddess)
who was the personification of memory.
[nee-mos-uh-nee, -moz-]
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Rhymes:
"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
"I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh."
Five Freedoms in 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."
Acronyms: BICUM =
Acronyms: NASA =
National Aeronautics Space Administration
Acronyms: SCUBA =
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
Acronyms: HOMES =
The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
Acronyms: FACE =
The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E
Acronyms: ROY G. BIV =
The colors of the rainbow =
Acronyms: SKILL =
Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs
Acrostics:
The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.
The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.
Every Good Boy Does Fine =
lines of the treble clef
= the Planets in Our Solar System
Creating Mind-Maps can help you to understand and remember.
Examples:
Here are some examples of Mind Maps for other subjects:  |
Other Types of Mnemonics
Mini-Stories:
Songs: Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah?
Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary
Peg System: Peg System for Memorization
Mini-Stories:
Songs: Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah?
Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary
Peg System: Peg System for Memorization
Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights for extra credit
Loci System: Select a place you know well8. Practice BEFORE and DURING READING strategies.
You are practicing reading strategies so you can use them on your own!
Practice Strategies to Use Before and During Reading
(with Gale Database on Lewis and Clark)
Continue to work on this.
When you finish, I'll show you a way to use one of the after reading strategies -- creating a MAP!
If You Were Absent:
See above. |
