Readers Notebook Anchor Standards

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.6 Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domainspecific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering an unknown term important to comprehension or expression CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5 Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

Think of something read, bounce an idea off of it. Write the bounce idea and then start your sentence ideas by saying:

That reminds me of I agree, because True, another example is when Thats a great point

Select a word and place one letter in each box until all boxes are filled. Then see how many words you can find with three or more letters, write each word in your notebook. Use a single letter on the board once (unless it appears twice- having more than in one square.) All letters in the word must be connected on the board horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Continue playing until the timer runs out.

1. Write a list word 2. Using the letter chart, add up the number values of each letter and the total value of the word 3. Write a sentence using this word 4. Can you use these same letters to write any other of this weeks words? 5. Write the next word and their repeat steps two and three 6. If you could not reuse these letters continue this activity with two other list words

Textual Evidence Sentence Starters 1. On page ____, it says 2. The author writes 3. The graphic shows 4. An example of _______ is 5. In the text it is says 6. From the information I read I learned that
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently

Record: feelings, responses, and reactions to classroom activities. Think deeply. Date entry; write the next entry immediately under the previous. What do you remember? What questions came to mind during the activity?

 Make a connection between this activity and another activity or experience.

1. Make a list of five spelling words. 2. Place the words on the grid writing the letters either vertically or horizontally but not diagonally 3. No words should overlap, but words can use common letters 1 2 3 4 5 6

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a p p l e r t f o l k 4. Ask your opponent a question to locate word spaces. 5. Mark the spots with the letters of their word and the spaces without letters with an 0 6. The first player with all five words is the winner 1 2 3 4 5 6 J p p I 0 0 H 0 t f

1. Work in pairs. 2. Spell a spelling list word using sign language 3. Challenge your partner to write down the word spelled. (You might have to spell it more than once. 4. Confirm the accuracy of the spelling. 5. Take turns until the entire list is spelled.

From Spell Well By Besconter and Harris