Friday, Sept. 25

Periods 1-5
1. Tell students to take out their AR book and put it on their desk. You will then walk the aisles and write down the names of those students who failed to bring their AR books to class. By the way, you will know that a book is AR by the light green sticker found on the spine. Students only receive credit for SSR if their book is AR. Once you are finished with that, tell those students who forgot their books that they can now get out of their seats and borrow one from the classroom library.
2. As soon as everyone has a book and is seated, go ahead and start the classroom timer. The students will read silently for 30 minutes. Please write down the names of those students who are not on task during SSR (sleeping, head down, talking, doing work for another class, etc.).
3. Once the 30 minutes has ended, put the choice of prompts on the overhead – or you can write them on the board -- and tell the students that they are now to complete a writing log on what they have read. The log needs to be single-spaced, be at least a page long, and go on the back of the writing log they completed last week. Tell them that if they can’t follow these simple instructions, then they will not receive credit for their writing log.
4. When there is five minutes left in the period, go ahead and collect all writing logs.