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Language Arts

Language Arts. Reading / Lit. Skills Ben Lebofsky Learning Support. What is Reading / Lit. Skills. The act of reading is when you link personal experience and background knowledge to a given text to make meaningful connections between ideas and themes.

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Language Arts

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  1. Language Arts Reading / Lit. Skills Ben Lebofsky Learning Support

  2. What is Reading / Lit. Skills • The act of reading is when you link personal experience and background knowledge to a given text to make meaningful connections between ideas and themes. • Reading class includes a variety of instructional strategies designed to meet struggling readers’ needs. These strategies include before / during / after strategies to be consistently used while reading. We will review these and practice the strategies of successful readers. • Students will have opportunities to practice these strategies in class by interacting with a variety of textual materials including literature, non-fiction, and textbooks. • Learning Support Component: The smaller size of learning support classes allows for more individualized instruction, alterations for pacing, and goal directed instruction. The structure of the class provides more opportunities for active participation and consistent success as we try to build student self-esteem.

  3. Homework and Grading • Once we get rolling, homework will include: • Reading Logs: opportunities to practice reading skills: using self-selected novels, preferred reading material, school based material • content terms • vocabulary and word study • check the website for assignments and updates • Grading is based upon: • homework completion • performance on quizzes, tests, and projects. • I also evaluate participation and classwork completion. You will see these on the grade sheets, but these do not factor into overall grades. Feel free to ask your child about these grades and how these might impact overall classroom performance.

  4. CLASS PARTICIPATION GRADING SYSTEM -maintains attentive, interactive & courteous role in class 4 -contributions are on-topic (relevant) and appropriate -consistently prepared for class -shows respect for teacher, self and peers -usually attentive, interactive & courteous in class 3 -contributions tend to be on-topic (relevant) and appropriate -usually prepared for class -usually shows respect for teacher, self and peers -is at times passive, inattentive or disruptive/discourteous 2 -contributions are minimal or inappropriate -inconsistently prepared for class -must be reminded to show respect for teacher, self and peers -passive, inattentive or disruptive/discourteous in class 0-1 -contributions are inappropriate; often uncooperative -unprepared for class -does not show respect for teacher, self or peers

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