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Slide 2 Daily Independent Reading Time (DIRT) Mrs. Martins Fifth Grade Class Slide 3 Classroom Library So that you may begin reading books at school before the Mimosa library opens, you will need to know how to check out books from the classroom library. Choose a book record in purple library notebook on your page. Slide 4 How to Check Out Books When you have finished the book, put 1 line through your information after you return the book to a basket. Get another book and start all over again. Slide 5 Rules During DIRT We read silently We remain still and in one spot for the duration of DIRT Read the whole time We can only do our best thinking while reading if we follow these 3 simple rules. Slide 6 Procedures during DIRT DIRT will take place daily. Be prepared by bringing your book to class every day! During this time, the teacher will be conferencing with individual students or small groups of students Only under emergency circumstances will the teacher be interrupted during DIRT Slide 7 Keeping records during DIRT very important! Remember to write down all of the books you read on your reading log, which is located in your Language Arts Journal. Record all titles, start & finish dates!!! Slide 8 How Readers Choose Books Which of these do you use? Front cover/inside jacket/back of book Another book in a series Interesting Title Authors we know and like Recommendation from teacher, friend Books that are movies Genres we like to read (continued) Slide 9 How Readers Choose Books Read the beginning Award winning book New or popular book Sequel to a book weve read Heard it read aloud Read it before and enjoyed it Do you have others? Which of these will you try? Slide 10 How Readers Choose Books: Just Right Books Good Fit books are books that are not too easy or too challenging for us, but that are just right. That is, we can understand what we are reading, but it isnt so easy that we arent challenged at all, and it isnt so challenging that we are struggling to understand. Slide 11 How Readers Choose Books: Just Right Books So, after reading the first few pages of a book, you should be able to tell if it is just right for you by answering these few questions to yourself: Slide 12 How Readers Choose Books: Just Right Books If you can answer yes to these questions, it is probably JUST RIGHT for you! 1. Is this book new to me or one I would like to read again? 2. Do I understand what Ive read so far? 3. Are there just a few words per page I dont know? 4. When I read are some places smooth and just a few choppy? 5. Am I interested in spending time reading this book? Slide 13 How Readers Choose Books: Too challenging Did you know that regularly reading books that are too difficult for us actually leads to frustration, and causes us to avoid reading? and doesnt help us improve our reading skills? Reading books which are too challenging actually weakens our skills over time. Slide 14 How Readers Choose Books: Too Challenging If you answer yes to these questions, it is probably too challenging. Are there more than five words on each page I dont know? Am I confused about what is happening in this book? Do I feel bored? When I read, does it sound pretty choppy and slow? Slide 15 How Readers Choose Books: Too Easy Sometimes it is nice to read books that are too easy for us, but in general we should read books that are Just Right for us. A steady diet of books which are too easy for us wont help us to improve our reading skills either. Slide 16 How Readers Choose Books: Too Easy If you answer yes to these questions, it is probably too easy. 1. Have I read it lots of times before? 2. Do I understand the story without really having to think about it? 3. Do I know every word? 4. Can I read it smoothly on the first try? Slide 17 Losing Meaning The main job for you as a reader is to keep track of when you stop understanding, or when you have lost the meaning of what you are reading. Today, when this happens, please mark it with a Post-it note. Slide 18 Losing meaning What can you do when you lose the meaning as you are reading along? Slide 19 If you lose meaning today Back up and reread Slide 20 Metacognition Be aware of how you think as you are reading. Thinking about your thinking is called metacognition. Slide 21 Visualize! When we visualize while reading, we create pictures in our minds. Visualizing helps us to relate to the characters in a text. We imagine what they look like and how they act. Slide 22 Visualize Try to keep a movie running in your mind today as you are reading. Make a note of when you do this think about your thinking! Slide 23 Slide 24 Making Connections Good readers are always thinking about what they understand and about how they feel about what they are reading. One important way of understanding and relating to what we read is to make connections with the text. Slide 25 Making Connections Everyone has tons of background knowledge. Background knowledge is the total of all of the things that you know and remember. Slide 26 Making Connections Lets take a 2-minute look at how rich our background knowledge is right now. In your Writers Notebook (WN), make a quick web of everything you know or have experienced in relation to spiders. This can be knowledge from home, books, school, and television or maybe scary or funny stories from your memory. Example of a spider web on following slide! Slide 27 Making Connections Example of a Spider Web Spiders Spiders carry their egg sacks in their mouth The pet store has tarantulas in cages My friend Karen had to have surgery on her leg from a spider bite Lindsey freaks out when she sees even tiny spiders Slide 28 Making Connections When we read something, our brains are reminded of all of our background knowledge, or connections. There are at least 4 kinds of connections: Slide 29 Making Connections T S Text-to-Self (Not sure what text is? Text is simply the words you are reading) What you are reading reminds you of something you yourself have experienced before Slide 30 Making Connections T T Text-to-Text What you are reading reminds you of something you read before in a book, article, magazine, newspaper, etc. By E.B. White Charlottes Web Slide 31 Making Connections T M Text-to-Media What you are reading reminds you of a TV show, a movie, or a song. Slide 32 Making Connections T W Text-to-World What you are reading reminds you of common knowledge that many people share Slide 33 Making Connections As you read today (and every day!) pay attention to the ways your brain is connecting to the text. Place a post-it note any place in your reading that causes you to have a connection. Come up with at least 3. After you are finished you can write down exactly what you were thinking about and put the Post-it notes on the bulletin board. Slide 34 Framework for Reading Conferences 1. Bring me the book you have been reading 2. Why did you choose this book? 3. What is the level of this book for you? 4. Tell me what the book is about so far. 5. Share a response from this book in your RRJ with me. Slide 35 Framework for Reading Conferences 6. Read this part of the book for me. 7. Tell me what you remember about what you just read. 8. Lets discuss strengths and what you need to work on. 9. How long do you think it will take you to complete this book? Slide 36 Framework for Reading Conferences Remember, the teacher must have uninterrupted reading conferences in order to help students with reading. If you have a question during DIRT, reserve it for before, between or after conferences. Slide 37 READ! READ! READ! When you complete a book, be sure to record it on your blue card. When you have 500 pages, you will be able to add a fish to the pond!