Thursday, September 8, 2011

September 8, 2011

1.  Sustained Silent Reading and fill out your reading log -- 15 minutes
2. Reading from the class novel:  Regarding the Fountain -- through page 75
          Ooooo -- Mr. Wright, we saw some logical fallacies used by a certain disreputable character in the book, including the slippery slope!


3.  Summarizing --
       We began learning to use the SWBS strategy to summarize fiction (made-up stories).  


Somebody wanted. . . . . . .  but. . . . . . so. . . . . . 


Students listened to the story of the Three Little Pigs, and looked at an SWBS for it.
Students read a brief story called "Seeing is Believing" and filled in an SWBS for it -- in small groups and as a class.
Next time we will do another SWBS for a longer story.

Next time, let's see if we can apply this strategy to nonfiction, too!
We may also have time to practice a summarizing strategy for nonfiction -- identifying repeated words!

If you were absent, ask Ms. Dorsey for the SWBS materials, and for the make-up sheet for reading time!

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