Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and Reading Log

2. Fluency Practice

3.  Vocabulary  -- Word a Day -- Collect these words -- We will test every 5 times.
Be able to spell the word and know its meaning
Today's Word:  chattel noun  definition:  an item of personal, movable property: slave
Example sentences: 
Tex's cattle were his chattel.
The bank held a chattel mortgage on all our office equipment, chairs, computers, and even our electric clock.
Please do not order me around.  I am neither your servant nor your chattel.
The chattel belonging to Herodotos of Athens at his death were sixteen slaves, seven horses, six hunting dogs, and three dwarf gladiators.

4.  Practicing skills and strategies with short texts

Monday, February 27, 2012

Self-Starter:  Individual Reading and fill out logs
2.  Fluency Practice

 3. Finish reading Hugo Cabret  
    4. Answer Questions about Hugo Cabret
            Who is your favorite character and why?
            What do you think is the climax -- the point where things change and the problems are resolved/fixed?
            What difference does the setting make in the story?  How is it different because it is set in a train station in Paris than it would be otherwise?  
            What is a theme or message you get from the book? 
                Perhaps -- Don't give up on who you are?
                                  You are probably appreciated more than you realize.
                                  Kindness pays.
                                  We seldom really know the problems someone else has been through.

Why didn't we have as many vocabulary words toward the end as we did at the beginning? 

5.  Practicing Skills and Strategies with short texts -- Practice (Sample) Exercise: "Street Luge" -- We timed our silent reading of the article. Next time we will go through sample questions and answers.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Individual Reading and Log

2. Summarizing a newspaper article

•      Most important points
•       In order 

• Who
• What
• Where 
• Why 
• When
• How

3. Fluency Practice

4. Hugo Cabret  to page 

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Individual Reading and Log

2. Fluency Practice
3. Hugo Cabret  to page 452 -- top of page "Crash!"

Thursday, February 16, 2012

1. Sleuthing Challenge -- try in teams to solve a crime.  "Lover's Leap"


2. Hugo Cabret 
We read today from page 321 to page 369.

3. Fluency partners 




4.  Individual Reading Time -- (About 15 minutes today.)  Don't forget to watch for unfamiliar words and for context clues you could use.  Try to be aware of when you're making inferences.

Parent Teacher Conference Thursday the 16th

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Self-Starter:   More about making inferences.

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love.

Solving a mystery "Aphrodite's Revenge" requires making inferences.  
Next time: Sleuthing Challenge -- try in teams to solve a crime.

2. Hugo Cabret 
We read today from page 263 to page 321.

3. Fluency partners -- Not today.




4.  Individual Reading Time -- Don't forget to watch for unfamiliar words and for context clues you could use.  Try to be aware of when you're making inferences.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Self-Starter:  

What I See	What I Infer

The students looked at photos and wrote down what they saw, and what they could guess (infer) based on what they saw.

2. We also looked at some pictures from Motel of the Mysteries.  Sometimes inferences can be way off, so base your inferences on the best information you can find.

3. Hugo Cabret 
We read today from page 223 to page 263.

4.  Fluency partners



5. Individual Reading Time -- Don't forget to watch for unfamiliar words and for context clues you could use, and make inferences.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

1. Individual Reading Time and Log -- Watch for vocabulary and connections.
Discuss individual reading.

 2.  Fluency partners

3.  Making Connections -- Text to Text  
Two stories -- theme

4.  Hugo Cabret

We read today to page 223, chapter 10

TEXT TO SELF, TEXT TO TEXT (BOOK, MOVIE, STORY, ETC.), TEXT TO WORLD (REAL WORLD)

PAGE	TEXT (BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONNECTION)	T-S	T-T	T-W
p. 50	EXAMPLE: Hugo is blamed for stealing. When I was a teenager, a friend and I were leaving a five and dime store and an employee grabbed us and accused us of shoplifting sunglasses.  Of course, Hugo really had been stealing from the toy store, and we hadn’t, but I know the feeling of being accused and threatened with the police.	x

Monday, February 6, 2012

Self-Starter:  Use the dictionary to look up any of the words from your Hugo Cabret sheet or the sheets for your own reading book(s). 

2. About Making Connections  

3. Fluency partners

4. Hugo Cabret

We read today to page , chapter 

5. Individual Reading Time -- Don't forget to watch for unfamiliar words and for context clues you could use, and for connections you make:  text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world.

TEXT TO SELF, TEXT TO TEXT (BOOK, MOVIE, STORY, ETC.), TEXT TO WORLD (REAL WORLD)

PAGE	TEXT (BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONNECTION)	T-S	T-T	T-W
p. 50	EXAMPLE: Hugo is blamed for stealing. When I was a teenager, a friend and I were leaving a five and dime store and an employee grabbed us and accused us of shoplifting sunglasses.  Of course, Hugo really had been stealing from the toy store, and we hadn’t, but I know the feeling of being accused and threatened with the police.	x

 

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!' He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood a while in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One two! One two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. 'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. Lewis Carroll

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Happy Ground Hog Day!   For breaking news, see http://www.groundhog.org/ 

Self-Starter:  

1. Jabberwocky

2. Fluency partners


3. Remember: Multimodal Texts

4. Hugo Cabret is one of them.
We read today from page 133, chapter 6 to


5. Individual Reading Time -- Don't forget to watch for unfamiliar words and for context clues you could use.