Life Long Readers:

Research in reading is clear about several things:

To become good readers, students need to read a lot

The benefits?

Studies indicate most of a person's vocabulary growth in a year is attributed to independent reading

A large vocabulary, in turn, allows one to understand and express complex ideas better.

"What is the best way to select a book to read?

"There are hundreds of books in our school library. How can I determine whether a particular book might be good match for me?"

The answer is...

"Interviewing" a book is a good way to decide whether or not to read it."

Interviewing a book?

Does the title sound interesting?

Do I know anything about the author?

Does the blurb on the back of the book sound interesting?

Is the book a genre I like to read? Mystery? Memoir? Fiction?

Did the book win any awards?

Is the book too hard?

One way to determine if a book is too hard is to read a page from the beginning and middle of it.

Our objective

• Watch how Mr. Nueva Interviews a book.
• Interview several books yourself
• Share interesting books discovered.

Book Pass:

A "book pass" is an activity that helps students discover new reading material.

For this activity...

• Each one of you will need a personal "Books I'd Like to Read" List.
• And a "Book Pass" List

Just a heads up...

• We'll be adding these handouts to our notebooks.
• Be Patient and mindful--share the materials.

Books I'd Like to Read

• Today's book pass will help us add reading material to our list.

How it works...

• This activity begins with every student having a book.

Your job...

• Immediately record the author's name, title, and your interest level on a "Book Pass" sheet.
• You'll have 1-3 minutes to do this Interview work.

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After 1-3 minutes...

• we'll pass our books around the class in a particular order.
• Then, you'll have another 1-3 minutes to interview a different book.

"Pass"

• We'll continue to pass books around until we've interviewed several different books.

Transfer Information

• After we've stopped passing, your next job is to transfer information from your "Book Pass" sheet to your "Books I'd Like to Read" List

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Questions?

Bookmark:

Students, to help each other complete the 30 book challenge, we will periodically pretend to be librarians.

As librarians, our main focus is to help people find books that are a joy to read.

To do this, we are going to make bookmarks that recommend a favorite book!

Two Simple requirements

• I will give you paper and materials to complete this task.
• There are only two simple requirements you have to follow.

1)Bookmarks must contain a colored illustration that relates to your recommended book.

2) Bookmarks must contain at least 3 sentences that explain why you would recommend a particular book.

HOW Grade

Questions?

English Notebook:

Students, today we will set up our notebooks to keep a log of our learning.

Setting up notebooks is a multi-step process, so please be attentive and patient.

To begin...

• Please write your name.
• the school year (2017-2018)
• Room 4
• and "English Notebook" on the first page.
• This should take no more than 3 minutes.

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The next thing we are going to do is make a table of contents.

This table of contents should be on the following page and include only the following for now:

For now, only write:

• "Table of Contents" at the top and centered.
• On the left hand side, a "pg. #" heading.
• and On the right hand side, a "Date" Heading.
• You will have 3 minutes to work.

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Moving Forward

• After creating a Table of Contents, turn the page.
• On the bottom corner of the next blank page, number it with a "1" like a book.

Continue Numbering Pages

• Now continue numbering the pages of your notebook like a book.
• Make sure to keep the numbers small and in the corners.
• You will have 7 minutes to work.

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Cut and Gluing

• At this point, we are going to start adding things to our notebooks.
• Be Patient as we share classroom materials

Things to include

• 30 Book Challenge Log (2)
• Books I want to Read List
• Reading Letter Instructions
• Reading Letter Prompts
• TBD

Table of Contents

• Remember to update your table of contents after inserting items into your notebook.

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Quiet Worktime:

Breaktime!

Notebook Construction

Students, today we'll finish setting up our notebooks.

Yesterday, ya'll worked efficiently and patiently, which I sincerely give you props for the focus.

I ask that you apply the same effort and dedication to today's set up because we will continue with multi-step directions.

That said...

• Your first task is to glue sample Reading Letters into the next available blank page from your notebook.

Remember

• After gluing the sample Reading Letters into your notebook, remember to update your table of contents with the correct page numbers.

You have 3 minutes to complete this task.

Next Step

• Your next task is to glue prompts that will help you write a Reading Letter into the next available location.
• Afterwards, update your table of contents.

This is how it looks. You have 3 minutes to glue and update.

Final Task

• The last thing we need to do is glue a Reading Letter Rubric into your notebook.

Got Room?

• If you can fit this next to the prompts you just inserted, do that. If not, glue the rubric into the next blank page.

After gluing this rubric, remember to update your table of contents.

Set Up Complete!

Students, we are done with our set up. However, we are not done with our notebooks.

We will be working out of them today, but first we need to clean up.

Priorities

• Clean up immediate mess.
• Neatly set aside materials on your desks.
• Then pack up your things--leaving only your English Notebook on the table.

Reading Letters:

In Short,

• Reading letters are a way for students to share thoughts about their reading to their teacher.
• These will be written on a bi-weekly basis.

How to write it

• Hear a sample Letter
• Discussion of the letters elements (what it included)
• Practice--learn by doing.

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