1. Agenda Monday/Tuesday August 29th & 30th

2. Beginning Class Procedures
Come in SILENTLY
Go STRAIGHT TO YOUR SEAT
Read the Daily Agenda
and GET OUT MATERIALS
COPY the Home Learning in PLANNER
Wait for further instruction.
Stick to them!!!!

3. Materials Needed PLANNER Composition book Novel/ Biography
Binder w/ dividers & paper
Pencil/ pen

4. Late Interest Inventory?

5. Late Parent Survey and/or Reading Survey?

7. Signed Reading Expectations?

8. Fears and Phobias?
Each student used his/her laptop to learn and practice how to access the online textbook today in class. We also looked at some of the new features which include videos to click on that give background information or teach/reinforce a reading strategy to help build comprehension.

9. Didn’t finish “Fears and Phobias”?
How to access the online Collections textbook:
Go to
Click “students”
Click “student software”
Scroll down to my.hrw
Go through beginning tutorial and finally, click “student ebook”.
Click on this icon

10. Write in planner: Page 41 article
Page 48 answer 1-6 and complete the performance task by writing a summary

11. In your planner, copy my website.

12. Assign jobs:
Caddy Colonel

13. Caddy Colonel Responsibilities:
No body leaves until ALL paste, scissors, and highlighters are accounted for!!
No trash in the Caddy!!

14. My Caddy is not your TRASH CAN!

15. Assign jobs:
Composition book manager

16. Composition Book Managers’ Responsibilities
At the beginning of class…If the MATERIALS says comp.bks.,
Get out your group’s composition books.
At the end of every class…
Place your group members’ composition books back in the correct class period’s bin.
Leave absent students’ books in the bin

17. Composition Book Managers’ Responsibilities
Comp. Bk?
At the beginning of class…If the MATERIALS says comp.bks.,
Get out your group’s composition books.
At the end of every class…
Place your group members’ composition books back in the correct class period’s bin.
Leave absent students’ books in the bin

18. It is NOT the MANAGER’S JOB to…
…hunt you down
& chase you around the room...
to get your composition book.
You must place it on the manager’s desk or in his/her hand !

19. Assign jobs: Caddy Colonel Composition book manager
Binder/Portfolio manager
**Textbook manager 1A/4A 6B/8B ONLY
Laptop Cart Checker
Clean-Up Alerter 5 minutes until bell
7B ONLY Lunch Alerter

20. In caddy…
Get the color marker out that matches the color of the group you sit at.
We will use:
Sharpie to write our first and last names across the top of our comp. bks.

21. Setting Up Your Composition Book

22. Color the top of your composition book with the color that matches your group color
Heather Amerson 2A
Make sure you hear a click when closing the marker and place it back in the caddy.

23. The colored tops will help the Composition Book Manager QUICKLY find your groups’ books.

24. Use Sharpie to write your first and last name across the top of your composition book and your period: 1A, 2A, 4A, 6B, 7B, or 8B

25. Setting up the Table of Contents
Write “Table of Contents” across the top
Open up your comp. book to the first page
Write “page” in the first column
Write “Title” in the second column

26. How your Table of Contents may look:

27. We will NEVER Write on the Backs of the Pages!!!!!!
Record the page each set of notes begins ***You might start notes on a page from a previous lesson because there is still space
We will NEVER Write on the Backs of the Pages!!!!!!

28. Table of Contents
Turn four pages and stop (this gives your T.O.C. room to grow all year

29. Number the top right corner as we go throughout the year1

30. 1 Write a number 1 in the top right hand corner. Numbering your pages
Never Write on the Backs of the Pages!!!!!!

31. Numbering your pages
Continue to number the top right corners up to page 10 …you can continue to number the rest as you go.
Never Write on the Backs of the Pages!!!!!!

32. Silent Sustained Reading

33. Your child should have given you a letter today August 29th A day or tomorrow August 30th B Day informing you about his/her Level Set Achieve3000 Assessment Result/Lexile Level
Looks like this

34. S.S.R. Guidelines ~ 25 minutes
Bring your independent reading book to class EVERYDAY
Use 5 finger method to read “just right” books

35. Five Finger Rule
Select a book with enough new words to challenge you but without so many they frustrate you. Use the five finger rule as your guide.

36. What’s a “Just Right” book?
You can use the 5 finger method to read “just right” books

37. Five Finger Rule
Select a book with enough new words to challenge you but without so many they frustrate you. Use the five finger rule as your guide.

38. Five Finger Rule Too Easy
Read a page from anywhere in the book you are considering reading. Count on your fingers how many times you come across a word you do not know.
Too Easy

39. Five Finger Rule
If you are holding up two fingers…
Easy

40. Five Finger Rule
If you are holding up three fingers…
Just Right

41. If you are holding up 4 fingers…
Five Finger Rule
If you are holding up 4 fingers…
Challenging

42. Five Finger Rule
If you are holding up 5 fingers…
Too Hard

44. NOTE: It is important to pick a couple pages to “test” .
Average the number of fingers held for each page “tested” to get the best “read” on the book.

45. Thursday and Friday – August 25th and 26th
Every student was given a chance to check out a “pleasure” novel of his/her choice AND sent to the LaVilla library to check out a biography/autobiography
Both should be brought to Language Arts class EVERY DAY.
We had our first official S.S.R. today
I modeled how to fill out the form today and where to place it in their portfolio (binder kept in class).
You will see a grade in FOCUS based on the rubric detailed in the Reading Expectations letter sent home last week and on the following slide, if you missed it. The score is based on a 5 point scale.
5 = 100
4 =
3 = 70
2 = 60
1 = 50
0 = 0

46. S.S.R. form Running Reading Record
Author
Date
Title
Stop page
Start Page #

47. S.S.R. rubric Daily Grade
prompting

48. To return a book… Book Return bin..
Write your first and last name on a sticky note , stick it on the front of the book, and place it in the
Book Return bin..

49. Check out a new book: Fill out the card by writing the date & your first and last name on the card
Place the card in the Book  Out box

50. If you do not have a book…
Fall to the ground, weeping openly.
Just kidding.

51. What to do if you do not have a book…
Get an Impact book from me.
Pick an article that sounds interesting from the Table of Contents.
Record the date, title (author if you can find it) of the article, start and stop page on your RRR.
Return the Impact book to me at the end of SSR.

52. Silent Reading C- level 0 voice H- raise hand and wait for teacher
A- read your “pleasure” book or biography and/or return & check out a new book as needed
M- remain seated except when checking out or returning reading material
P- eyes moving across page, pages turning, recording Running Record
information
S- 20 minutes

53. Home Learning
Every student should be reading toward his/her 300 page reading goal for the quarter and reading in his/her biography, taking notes to use to complete the biography book report due at the end of the 9 weeks.
I will give 5 options for the biography book report next class. Each student may pick the option that best fits his/her interests. The options include:
Report
Power point
Dress Up/ monologue
Time Capsule
Poster

54. Clean-Up Procedure
“Clean-Up!” will be announced a 5 minutes before the bell rings by a student helper.
STOP what you’re doing and put away composition books, portfolios, caddy materials, and any other class items.
There is NO TALKING while cleaning up.
Pick up any trash or dropped items in the area around your group.
You may talk using a level 1 (WHISPER voice) ONLY if all materials are put away while STAYING SEATED until the TEACHER…NOT the bell…dismisses you.