Welcome to 6 th Grade Literacy

1. Welcome to 6th Grade Literacy Hillary Shumate Contact Information: 630-534-7509 hshumate@d41.org

2. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Genre study: • Understanding characteristics of realistic fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, fantasy, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction

3. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Guided Reading: • This time offers strategies that will build comprehension including making connections, synthesizing, repair strategies, determining what is important, making inferences, and questioning skills.

4. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Teacher/student conferencing: • Conferencing provides student involvement in the learning process by sharing goals.

5. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Independent Reading: • Students are provided choice of book selections from the Making Meaning novel resources, classroom library, and Hadley library.

6. LITERACY Word Study  • Variety of resources • Academic vocabulary • Prefixes, suffixes, and root words • Strategies • Understand meaning • Parts of speech

7. LITERACY Writing Process and Writing Products Formats: • Quick writes, journaling, narrative, expository, Argumentative, response to literature, poetry Six + 1 Traits: • Voice, Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Conventions, Sentence Fluency, and Presentation

8. LITERACY Conventions - CUPS • Capitalization • Usage • Punctuation • Spelling

9. LITERACY Speaking and Listening  During Literacy class, students speak in group activities and in oral presentations. • Discussions • Presentations • Author’s Chair • Book Talks • Socratic Circle

10. LITERACY Research and Study Skills • Choosing reliable sources • Note taking • Organizing notes • Paraphrasing • Works Cited

11. LITERACY Have questions? Need help with assignments? Teacher Web Page http://hshumate.d41teachers.org

12. LITERACY Thank you for coming! It’s going to be a great year!