Week of September 11
and Monday, September 11
Course Goals
Reading Survey w/ Class Discussion
Tuesday, September 12
Finish Reading Survey
Put together Interactive Notebooks
Essential Questions Poster
Word wall: Academic=Relating to education Literacy=Ability to Read or write Apprenticeship=A system of training to read
Reader Identity=Who you are as a reader
Reading Survey - Questions 19, 26, and 31- What do the responses to each question show about the class as a whole?
Share Social Goals and Reading Research
Course Goals
Reading Survey w/ Class Discussion
Tuesday, September 12
Finish Reading Survey
Put together Interactive Notebooks
Essential Questions Poster
Word wall: Academic=Relating to education Literacy=Ability to Read or write Apprenticeship=A system of training to read
Reader Identity=Who you are as a reader
Reading Survey - Questions 19, 26, and 31- What do the responses to each question show about the class as a whole?
Share Social Goals and Reading Research
Week of Sepember 4
-Monday:
-No School
Tuesday:
-Introduction to the teacher
-Alphabetize Me - 1 detail
-1/2 Day of School
Wednesday:
-Introduction to the Course
-Syllabus/Course Outline
-Course goals/Materials
-BINGO
-Syllabus DUE: 9/8
-Homework: "A Letter to Myself" - Due Thursday, September 7
Thursday:
-Due: "A Letter to Myself"
-Word Wall
-Essential Questions
-Reading Survey w/Class Discussion
-"What I want from this class..."
-Book Talk
-Syllabus DUE: 9/8
Friday:
-Book Talk (con't.)
-Classroom Communication Guidelines
-Taking Power
-Grading Guidelines
-Number Ball
-Syllabus DUE: TODAY!
-No School
Tuesday:
-Introduction to the teacher
-Alphabetize Me - 1 detail
-1/2 Day of School
Wednesday:
-Introduction to the Course
-Syllabus/Course Outline
-Course goals/Materials
-BINGO
-Syllabus DUE: 9/8
-Homework: "A Letter to Myself" - Due Thursday, September 7
Thursday:
-Due: "A Letter to Myself"
-Word Wall
-Essential Questions
-Reading Survey w/Class Discussion
-"What I want from this class..."
-Book Talk
-Syllabus DUE: 9/8
Friday:
-Book Talk (con't.)
-Classroom Communication Guidelines
-Taking Power
-Grading Guidelines
-Number Ball
-Syllabus DUE: TODAY!
Week of October 26
Monday, October 26
Personal Reading History
Partner Interview about reading histories
Class Share Out
SSR
Personal Reading History
Partner Interview about reading histories
Class Share Out
SSR
Week of October 19
Monday, October 19
-SSR & Reflections - Collect reflections when finished
-Partners collaborate to fill in Essential Questions for "Kevin Clarke" reading - Turn in
-Its and It's worksheet
Tuesday, October 20
MAZE Testing
Discuss & Write Essential Question Info on Chart Paper
Review Its/It's handout
SSR & reflection
-SSR & Reflections - Collect reflections when finished
-Partners collaborate to fill in Essential Questions for "Kevin Clarke" reading - Turn in
-Its and It's worksheet
Tuesday, October 20
MAZE Testing
Discuss & Write Essential Question Info on Chart Paper
Review Its/It's handout
SSR & reflection
Week of October 12
Monday, October 12
SSR - 10 minutes with 2 Sentence Starter reflection
Think Aloud of "Kevin Clarke" - Partner writes down thoughts
Tuesday, October 13
SSR
Finish "Kevin Clarke" Think Aloud
Teacher models what is interesting to me in the "Kevin Clarke" reading
Model finding a "Golden Line" that represents my interest - Write on Essential Questions sheet
Students find Golden Line - Write on Essential Questions Sheet
Share interest and what their Golden Line is.
Wednesday, October 14
Finish sharing "Golden Lines"
Model Answering one of the Essential Questions.
Pair-Share of what you learned from "Kevin Clarke", from your classmates, and own thinking
Fill out the Essential Question graphic organizer using info from "Kevin Clarke"
Class discussion - chart ideas of literacy, power, and why people read.
Thursday, October 15
Write a letter to Kevin corresponding to the feelings and thoughts he expresses in the interview.
DUE Friday BOH
Friday, October 16
SSR & reflect
SSR - 10 minutes with 2 Sentence Starter reflection
Think Aloud of "Kevin Clarke" - Partner writes down thoughts
Tuesday, October 13
SSR
Finish "Kevin Clarke" Think Aloud
Teacher models what is interesting to me in the "Kevin Clarke" reading
Model finding a "Golden Line" that represents my interest - Write on Essential Questions sheet
Students find Golden Line - Write on Essential Questions Sheet
Share interest and what their Golden Line is.
Wednesday, October 14
Finish sharing "Golden Lines"
Model Answering one of the Essential Questions.
Pair-Share of what you learned from "Kevin Clarke", from your classmates, and own thinking
Fill out the Essential Question graphic organizer using info from "Kevin Clarke"
Class discussion - chart ideas of literacy, power, and why people read.
Thursday, October 15
Write a letter to Kevin corresponding to the feelings and thoughts he expresses in the interview.
DUE Friday BOH
Friday, October 16
SSR & reflect
Week of October 5
Monday, October 5
SSR
Skim CERA article "My Back Pages"
Group discussions
Create Reading Strategies List
Tuesday, October 6
SSR
"Kevin Clarke"
*Mobilizing Schema - Give a time when you felt frustrated about reading or about reading a particular text.
*Think-Pair-Share
Model Think Aloud w/ "Kevin Clarke"
Students discuss what they observed & how that helped them.
Students describe their own thinking while observing the "think aloud"
Find or revise strategies already on list or add new reading strategies.
Wednesday, October 7
SSR
Reciprocal Think Aloud w/ "Kevin Clark" article. Frequent pauses to share confusions and strategies-Update strategies list
Students continue reading stopping periodically to discuss roadblocks until the entire article is read
Introduce "Essential Questions" - Word Wall
Pair-Share of word "Essential"
Connect ideas to phrase "Essential Questions"
Thursday, October 8
SSR
Students finish reading "Kevin Clark"
"Golden Line" Introduction
Students think about what was most interesting to them in Kevin's interview - Find a sentence or phrase from text that could stand in for that idea. Write it on "Essential Questions" sheet.
Share "Golden Line" explaining why it was interesting to them.
Partners begin completing the "Essential Questions" organizer
Friday, October 9
SSR
Graphing & Book Share
SSR
Skim CERA article "My Back Pages"
Group discussions
Create Reading Strategies List
Tuesday, October 6
SSR
"Kevin Clarke"
*Mobilizing Schema - Give a time when you felt frustrated about reading or about reading a particular text.
*Think-Pair-Share
Model Think Aloud w/ "Kevin Clarke"
Students discuss what they observed & how that helped them.
Students describe their own thinking while observing the "think aloud"
Find or revise strategies already on list or add new reading strategies.
Wednesday, October 7
SSR
Reciprocal Think Aloud w/ "Kevin Clark" article. Frequent pauses to share confusions and strategies-Update strategies list
Students continue reading stopping periodically to discuss roadblocks until the entire article is read
Introduce "Essential Questions" - Word Wall
Pair-Share of word "Essential"
Connect ideas to phrase "Essential Questions"
Thursday, October 8
SSR
Students finish reading "Kevin Clark"
"Golden Line" Introduction
Students think about what was most interesting to them in Kevin's interview - Find a sentence or phrase from text that could stand in for that idea. Write it on "Essential Questions" sheet.
Share "Golden Line" explaining why it was interesting to them.
Partners begin completing the "Essential Questions" organizer
Friday, October 9
SSR
Graphing & Book Share
Week of September 21
Monday, September 21
Find someone who...has the same favorite food.
Look at history of SRI scores
Make a goal of what score you would like to attain when you take the SRI
Take SRI
Write actual score.
Think Aloud as a class
Tuesday:
-Reciprocal Think Aloud
-Word Wall
-SSR (10 minutes)
Wednesday:
-Nuts and Bolts of SSR
-Model Metacognitive Log
-SSR w/Metalogs (10 minutes)
-Class discussion/Follow-up
Thursday:
-SSR w/Metalogs
-Reading Research
-Model Think Aloud w/Cossack article
-Metacognitive Goals DUE: END-OF-CLASS
Friday:
-SSR w/Metalogs
-CERA
-Debrief w/class discussion
Find someone who...has the same favorite food.
Look at history of SRI scores
Make a goal of what score you would like to attain when you take the SRI
Take SRI
Write actual score.
Think Aloud as a class
Tuesday:
-Reciprocal Think Aloud
-Word Wall
-SSR (10 minutes)
Wednesday:
-Nuts and Bolts of SSR
-Model Metacognitive Log
-SSR w/Metalogs (10 minutes)
-Class discussion/Follow-up
Thursday:
-SSR w/Metalogs
-Reading Research
-Model Think Aloud w/Cossack article
-Metacognitive Goals DUE: END-OF-CLASS
Friday:
-SSR w/Metalogs
-CERA
-Debrief w/class discussion
Week of September 14
Monday:
-Set up binders
-Reading Survey w/Class discussion
-SSR (8 minutes)
Tuesday:
-Book Pass - Book Selection
-Partner discussion: "What makes a book appealing?"
-Compile class list
-Graph book preferences by genre
-SSR (8 minutes)
Wednesday:
-Metacognitive Processes (Lesson 3)
-Think Aloud
-SSR (8 minutes)
Thursday:
-Reciprocal Think Aloud
-Word Wall
-SSR (10 minutes)
Friday:
-Nuts and Bolts of SSR
-Model Metacognitive Log
-SSR w/Metalogs (10 minutes)
-Class discussion/Follow-up
-Set up binders
-Reading Survey w/Class discussion
-SSR (8 minutes)
Tuesday:
-Book Pass - Book Selection
-Partner discussion: "What makes a book appealing?"
-Compile class list
-Graph book preferences by genre
-SSR (8 minutes)
Wednesday:
-Metacognitive Processes (Lesson 3)
-Think Aloud
-SSR (8 minutes)
Thursday:
-Reciprocal Think Aloud
-Word Wall
-SSR (10 minutes)
Friday:
-Nuts and Bolts of SSR
-Model Metacognitive Log
-SSR w/Metalogs (10 minutes)
-Class discussion/Follow-up
Week of September 7
Monday:
-No School
Tuesday:
-Introduction to the course
-Syllabus
-Course Outline
-BINGO
-Course Goals and Materials
Wednesday:
-Word Wall
-Essential Questions
-Reading Survey w/Class Discussion
--Writing Protocol
*Syllabus DUE: 9/11
Thursday:
-2 Truths and a Lie
-Classroom Community Guidelines
-Taking Power
*Syllabus DUE: 9/11
Friday:
-Syllabus DUE: TODAY!
-Grading Guidelines
-Listen and Learn
-SSR & Reading Log
-No School
Tuesday:
-Introduction to the course
-Syllabus
-Course Outline
-BINGO
-Course Goals and Materials
Wednesday:
-Word Wall
-Essential Questions
-Reading Survey w/Class Discussion
--Writing Protocol
*Syllabus DUE: 9/11
Thursday:
-2 Truths and a Lie
-Classroom Community Guidelines
-Taking Power
*Syllabus DUE: 9/11
Friday:
-Syllabus DUE: TODAY!
-Grading Guidelines
-Listen and Learn
-SSR & Reading Log