Week of Sept. 17:

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Monday 9/17:

  • Library – Book Checkout
  • Mentor Sentences Bellwork – Locate 2 examples of beginning participial phrases in your SSR book
  • SSR

Tuesday 9/18:

  • SSR
  • Introduce Article of the Week #1: A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things
    • Step 1: Chunking.  We discussed the process of breaking a longer text into smaller parts and why we do that.  I then modeled for the students what my thought process was as I was chunking the article of the week.
    • Step 2: Roadblocks.  Using the article of the week, I modeled how to use different roadblock strategies.
      • Roadblock Strategies Notetaker – Students use this notetaker to keep track of different roadblock strategies we use to help us decipher unknown words and phrases.
      • Students were asked to locate and solve 3 roadblocks apart from the ones we deciphered as a class.

Wednesday 9/19:

  • LATE START
  • SSR
  • Mentor Sentences
  • Article of the Week #1
    • We shared out 3 roadblocks that students found and solved using different strategies.
    • Step 3: Talking to the Text.  Ms. Reiff and I modeled a partner activity for talking to the text.  Students then paired up and did a think aloud on the second chunk of the article.

Thursday 9/20:

  • SSR
  • Word Part Mini-Presentations: Un- and Re-
  • Article of the Week #1 (continued):
    • Step 3: Talking to the Text (continued)
      • Students received the Annotation Sentence Starters. Using the categories given (ex. Clarify, Questions, Connect, etc.), students had to label the annotations they completed with their partners on Wednesday.
      • After labeling their existing annotations, students were asked to annotate the rest of the article (the back of the sheet) while keeping in mind the categories of annotations they hadn’t used yet.  Students should use the sentence starters given to guide their annotations.
      • Right before the end of the hour, students were asked to trade with a partner.  Their partner then circled their best annotation that indicates deeper thinking, which will be shared right after SSR tomorrow.

Friday 9/21:

  • SSR
  • Article of the Week #1 (concluded):
    • Highlighting – only essential details necessary for understanding should be highlighted.  Everything else is extra.  This will then help students to determine what the main idea is.  If you need this modeled for you because you were absent, please let one of us know.
    • SOAPS – This is something that will be completed each time we do an Article of the Week.  Today our focus is on main idea (the last two boxes: Purpose and Subject); however, the whole sheet is due on MONDAY 9/24. Please let me know if you have any questions on how to do this.
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