Questioning Text -v- Clarifying Text

What is the difference between the two reading skills we looked at today?

Now watch this video below and write 3 clarifications and 3 questions about what you see.


Read this poem and write 3 clarifications and 3 questions about it.



"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.


The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie


In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


William Wordsworth

Enjoy Reading Lindsey's WhereI'm From Poem
http://www.box.net/shared/uz3d9p5jlv

Reading Strategies: Appositives

Use these links below to review our work on appositives today

http://www.eslbee.com/appositives.htm 
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/appositive.htm 

 




Enjoy Breck's Where I'm From Poem'
click link below


http://www.box.net/shared/k2lu65o6xr 

Reading Strategy: Decoding

Who is frightened by unfamiliar words they see in text after today's lesson?

Knowing your 'parts of speech' will help you decode many words that you do not know.

Change to Tuesday's H/W. (Due: Wed)

Copy 5 sentences from any source you can find that contain at least one difficult vocabulary word.  (you may have your parents write a couple of sentences for you.)

Make a rough guess of the meaning of the vocabulary word by using your 'parts of speech' strategy

e.g. The loquacious man frustrated the group
adj (before a noun -man)
educated guess = describing word for man=annoying?


Buxton Class - Mummy Mystery Prediction  Now due Thursday
Follow the guidelineson the H/W sheet under Monday for this activity.


Both classes: The Design a Seal activity is postponed until later in the week

Reading Strategies: Making Predictions

What is the most important thing that we learned about making predictions today?

Homework - Week 2

Click the title above to see your homework for next  week. You can simply view your H/W online or download and print out a hardcopy.

Thank you for all your enthusiasm and energy in our first week. I have really enjoyed our sessions so far.  

Now...let's get down to some work :-)

Don't forget...those people who still need to hand in their poem on Monday.

Phrase of the Week

To move a mountain you must begin by taking away small stones

Vocabulary Word of the Week

trepidation