Building Reading Muscles: August 31, 2018

Focus: How do we build our reading muscles?

1. Warming up by refining your grammar:

• Complete two more lessons of IXL: Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons.

• Test yourself with this quick exit ticket.

2. Establishing your own independent reading parameters and settling into you books

a. Books must be finished by Friday, November 2 .

b. How many pages does your book have?  About how many pages do you need to read a week?

c. Are you planning to read mostly on weekends, or throughout the whole week?

d. Are you planning on reading more than one book?  This is optional.

e. Take a look at the chapters and overall set-up of the book; make sure you're sectioning the book logically into reading assignments (you don't want to end two pages before the end of a chapter).

f. Take out your student calendars and write down exactly which pages need to be finished by which precise dates.

4. Thinking about reading as muscle-building

HW:
1. For Monday: 

• Spend 15 minutes with your independent reading books.
• Make sure you have finished reading "The Yellow Wallpaper."
• Make sure you have completed your three-column notes on "The Yellow Wallpaper."