Welcome to Curriculum Night! Ms. Cano Language Arts-6S

1. Welcome to Curriculum Night! Ms. Cano Language Arts-6S

3. Who is Ms. Cano? • Graduated from Arizona State University • Second year teaching at CMS! • Middle School English Language Arts, Social Studies and ESL endorsement. • Want to help students find value and inspiration in the learning process. • I love reading, traveling, hiking and teaching.

4. Communication Classroom/School happenings are communicated through: • Daily Agenda • Class website • Team Newsletter-6S (Sent from Banomo) • Parent Portal- www.kyrene.org • Email: ncano@kyrene.org (preferred) • Voicemail: 480-541-6576

5. 2015-2016 CMS EMAIL DISTRIBUTION LISTBe Informed, Get Involved, Stay Connected!

6. Learning Goals Based on State and College and Career Ready standards Drive Instruction Determine student’s grade

8. Teachers insert content specific slide here Learning Targets lead to learning goal.

9. Quarter Grades90%Assessment10% Practice A Formative Assessment (quiz, short essays, writing responses) measures PROGRESS toward proficiency. A Summative Assessment (test, essay, writing responses) measures PROFICIENCY You may see 1-3 Summative tests per quarter. These assessments are usually administered after a unit or right before quarter end. You will see many common formative assessments (CFA). These assessments are used “check points” to determine where our students. We make instructional decisions contingent on the results. You may see Practice work recorded. These are not graded, but are necessary in order to master the learning goals. Those students who repeatedly miss homework, usually do not score well on assessments.

10. Grades Grades are basedon academic achievement (i.e. What the student has mastered) and notbehavioral performance or academic practice (e.g. attendance, following rules, effort, participation, homework, work completion, or work turned in late, etc.). • 4 point scale • 4 = 100 • 3.5= 95 • 3 = 90 • 2.5 = 80 • 2 = 70 • 1.5= 65 • 1 = 60 • 0 = 50 CMS Grading Policy 90 - 100% = A80 - 89% = B70 - 79% = C60 - 69% = D50 - 59% = F

11. How do I check my child’s grades? From the Kyrene main page, click on Parents. Follow the arrows.

13. The StudentVue and ParentVue screen are the same. You or your child can type in the username and password from here. ** You can also download the gradebook app from this screen.

14. This is the screen that will appear with your child’s name and picture. If no picture is posted, do not worry. Just ensure that it’s your child’s name listed. The names would be where the yellow boxes are. To view your child’s grades, click on Grade Book – in the Navigation box.

15. This screen shows all the classes your child is currently taking. This is where you can see the current grades and where you can email the teacher directly. To email Click on the Course Title for more details about the specific class.

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17. Language Arts Texts • Learning Goals- I can... • Cite text-based evidence to support an analysis of literary and informational text • Determine a theme based on details in a literary text • Describe how the plot evolves throughout a literary text • Describe how characters change throughout a literary text • Determine the main idea of an informational text and summarize informational text

18. Reading at home • “Every measure that looks at pleasure reading and its effects on student performance on standardized tests of reading ability-and science and math-tells us that the major predictor of academic success is the amount of time that a student spends reading. In fact, the top 5 percent of U.S. students read up to 144 times more than the kids in the bottom 5 percent. Nancie Atwell, The Reading Zone, p. 107

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