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Pick a Strategy

Posted by brainym on January 26, 2010

Today you were able to pick your own reading strategy to use while reading your book in class. Pick a strategy that you think will help you understand your book the best. When you are done reading and have marked examples of how you used your strategy, blog about it! Tell why you picked the strategy, how it helped you, and give some examples of how you used it.

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Predictions, Predictions!!!

Posted by brainym on January 21, 2010

Today in your reading, you were to make three predictions. Tell what those predictions are and why you you think that is what will happen later on in the story. If you finished your book, just post a summary of your book and tell whether or not you would recommend this book to another person.

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I Read, I Think, Therefore…

Posted by brainym on January 7, 2010

In class this week we have been learning about a new reading strategy that we can use to help us make inferences. It is the I read, I think, therefore…

Today in your reading I want you to be marking different places in your reading where you used this strategy and blog about three of them today.

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Jingle Bells….

Posted by brainym on December 21, 2009

I could hear the jingle of bells far off in the distance. Somewhere out there through the falling flakes of snow was…


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Well, what happened today?

Posted by brainym on December 21, 2009

Tell us about what you read in your book today. Were there any surprises? Was your book hard to put down? Why or why not?

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What’s in a remainder?

Posted by brainym on December 14, 2009

What’s in a Remainder Click on the link to watch a cool movie on division and remainders.

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You’re not going to believe what happened in my book!

Posted by brainym on December 14, 2009

Tell us about the amazing book you were reading today!

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HW 12/11 Read 20 min. Visualiz…

Posted by brainym on December 11, 2009

HW 12/11 Read 20 min. Visualization; Math p161 #5-28; Bring your favorite recipe on Monday!!!!! Have a great weekend!

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HW 12/10 Read 20 min. Inferenc…

Posted by brainym on December 10, 2009

HW 12/10 Read 20 min. Inference; Spelling Pre-test; Math p159 2-28 all; Science Fair Project paper due tomorrow.

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Guess what I read….

Posted by brainym on December 10, 2009

Tell us about your reading today. What strategy did you use? What happened in the story? What did you see? Did you finish your book? Tell us about it.

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