All students read in their books for 10 minutes.
7th and 8th grade
Ms. Black and I went over the five reading strategies we will be studying this year. Today we focused solely on "Questioning" and students took notes on why learning to question a text was important. Ms. Black and I reviewed a set of symbols students were expected to use when questioning different parts of a text (circles for questions about characters, boxes for the setting, squiggly lines for unknown vocab words and underlining for important information.) Then we modeled how to create questions while reading a text and how to annotate our questions in the margins. Ms. Black and I read part of the short story "The Lottery" with students and they annotated their texts with questions while we read. (7th grade got thru about 1/4 of the story; 8th grade got thru about 1/2 of the story). Students shared their questions with the rest of the class.
Homework: None that will be turned in tomorrow. However, all students should be reading in their independent books on a nightly basis in order to ensure that they have reached the page requirement for Thursday's reading folder check.
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