1. Good Monday Morning Welcome to Academic Review
T.G.I.THURSDAY September 25th, 2014
NO SCHOOL TOMORROW – TEACHER PD DAY
WMDMS MORNING ANNOUNCMENTS
Lunch menu
Upcoming events at MDMS – Parent Night Sept 30
CHANNEL ONE NEWS Current Events
Students will engage in active listening – no talking during morning announcements and news cast. We will conduct academic conversations following these presentations. Please record your questions generated while actively listening. We will include them in our discussions.
I am available to provide assistance with Social Studies, Science, or Language Arts assignments/homework. Please ask for my assistance and we can sit and work together.

2. Comprehension Instruction Sequence (CIS) REVIEW – AGENDA CHECK REMINDER
Preview the text (read and discuss pictures, captions, title, headings)
Number the paragraphs
Read the passage aloud (softly) and mark up the text
Member #1 (Group Leader) reads aloud paragraph 1
Other members mark up text
Highlight key words or phrases
Circle confusing words
Start important information
Member #2 re reads paragraph 1 (P1) Other members mark up text
Member #3 re reads paragraph 2 (P2) Other members mark up text
If there is a Member#4 he/she reads paragraph 4 etc.
Read the questions: Determine important information and locate textual support from the passage.
Member #1 reads question #1, Member #2 reads ?#1, Member #3 reads question #3: Group decides who reads #4 and #5
Come to a consensus on which is the BEST answer
Generate questions based on the text (2 column notes) 1 per paragraph or topic
Check with your teacher to determine accuracy of your groups’ responses
Homework: Write corrected responses in complete sentences
Be sure they are completed and in your binder for our next binder check (usually in the following week)

3. COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES Think about: WhAT 2 strategies have you not been using to deepen your understanding of nonfiction text And plan on using in the future?

4. make connections to the text to help your comprehension.
Connections can be made to your personal experiences or to things you have seen or read.
Make Connections

5. Monitor Comprehension
pay attention to your own reading process and notice when you are losing focus or when comprehension is breaking down.
then use another strategy to help you overcome your difficulty.
Monitor Comprehension

6. make mental images of what they are reading.
look for vivid language, including concrete nouns, active verbs, and strong adjectives.
Visualization

7. find the organizational pattern of a text.
anticipate what you are reading and helps you to focus on the author’s central message or important ideas.
Organization

8. Determine Important Information
categorize information based on whether or not it supports an author’s central message or is important for a specific purpose.
Determine Important Information

9. ask questions before reading to set a purpose for reading,
during reading identify when your comprehension breaks down,
after reading check your understanding of a passage by re reading your answers to the questions.
Ask Questions

10. Review think about 2 strategies that you have you not been using to deepen your understanding of nonfiction text and now plan to use in the future?

11. COMPREHENSION SKILLS think about: what skill do you not understand how to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize to create a constructed response?

12. identify what a passage is mostly about and find important details that support the main idea (TS).
TS = (P#L#)
Main Idea and Details

13. look for the order in which things happen or identify the steps in a process.
Sequence

14. identify what happens (effect) and why it happens (cause).
Cause and Effect

15. study an author’s claims and the evidence that the author gives to support those claims.
Evaluate Evidence

16. You will be expected to note how two or more people or things are alike and different.
Compare and Contrast

17. Use your background knowledge and clues from the text to infer information.
Make Inferences

18. use your background knowledge and clues from the text to figure out what will happen next.
Prediction

19. identify who or what a story is about and where and when the story takes place.
Character and Setting

20. look for the moral or lesson in a fiction story or an author’s view point about the world in nonfiction.
Theme

21. determine why an author wrote a passage and whether the purpose is to entertain, to inform, to persuade, or to teach.
Author’s Purpose

22. Nonfiction Text Features
study features that are not part of the main body of text, including subheadings, captions, entry words, and titles.
Nonfiction Text Features

23. study pictures, charts, graphs, and other forms of visual information.

24. Question and Answer Time
Are you only allowed to use these strategies on the Daily Reading Passages?
Why or why not?
Create an acronym for the reading skills
Create an acronym for the reading strategies
Question and Answer Time

25. What questions do you have that can benefit the class as we learn about skills and strategies that are expected to apply when reading for understanding (comprehension)?
Your Turn

26. Where are you on the performance scale if you were asked to name and explain 2 skills and 2 strategies you find most challenging?
Review

27. Recall practice How did your group do?
REVIEW – TURN TO YOUR GROUP MEMBERS AND WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES, IN ONE MINUTE:
CREATE A LIST OF THE STRATEGIES YOU REMEMBER
CREATE A LIST OF THE SKILLS YOU REMEMBER
Recall practice How did your group do?

28. COMPREHENSION SKILLS think about: what skill do not understand how to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize a response?

29. Comprehension Instruction Sequence (CIS) review
Preview the text (read and discuss pictures, captions, title, headings)
Number the paragraphs
Read the passage aloud (softly) and mark up the text
Member #1 (Group Leader) reads aloud paragraph 1
Other members mark up text
Highlight key words or phrases
Circle confusing words
Start important information
Member #2 re reads paragraph 1 (P1) Other members mark up text
Member #3 re reads paragraph 2 (P2) Other members mark up text
If there is a Member#4 he/she reads paragraph 4 etc.
Read the questions: Determine important information and locate textuap support from the passage.
Member #1 reads question #1, Member #2 reads ?#1, Member #3 reads question #3: Group decides who reads #4 and #5
Come to a consensus on which is the BEST answer
Generate questions based on the text (2 column notes) 1 per paragraph or topic
Check with your teacher to determine accuracy of your groups’ responses
Homework: Write corrected responses in complete sentences
Be sure they are completed and in your binder for our next binder check (usually in the following week)