Monday, 10 November 2014

Language Arts 7

Today students began the class by learning about metacognition - their ability to understand how it is that they learn and understand best.

Students were introduced to the Daily Dozen Reading Strategy list:


Reading Strategies: The Daily Dozen
For students to become independent readers, the following twelve reading strategies must be learned and practiced.
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1. Access background knowledge.
2. Predict what will be learned or what will happen.
3. Figure out unknown words.
4. Self-monitor and self-correct.
5. Make mental pictures.
6. Connect what you read with what you already know.
7. Determine the most important ideas and events and the

relationship between them.
8. Extract information from text, charts, graphs, maps and

illustrations.
9. Identify and interpret literary elements in different genres.

10. Summarize what has been read.
11. Make inferences and draw conclusions. 

12. Reflect and respond.

Students began to apply this to a short story we looked at in the reader, Crossroads 7.

Our class was cut short due to the Remembrance Day Ceremony.

After lunch, students played their instruments.  There are some fine musicians in this class!!
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