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Welcome!. Cari Pepper Katie Gammage Paige Oppenhagen. Introductions. Katie Gammage: 9 th & 10 th Cari Pepper: 10 th & 11 th Paige Oppenhagen: 10 th & theater. Standards. What are standards? Writing, Reading, Speaking & Listening, & Language skills
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Welcome! Cari Pepper Katie Gammage Paige Oppenhagen
Introductions Katie Gammage: 9th & 10th Cari Pepper: 10th & 11th Paige Oppenhagen:10th & theater
Standards • What are standards? • Writing, Reading, Speaking & Listening, & Language skills • W1: “Write arguments to support claims…” • R1: “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly…” • National: Common Core • http://www.k12.wa.us/CoreStandards/elastandards/pubdocs/CCSSI_ELA_Standards.pdf#3
Standards • How do we use standards? • Focuses our teaching • How do standards support learning? • Focuses their learning on specific skills • Practice
Article of the Week (AoW) • The Purpose of AoW: • To build reader’s knowledge of the world & current events • To develop reading stamina • To develop clarity of writing expression • To develop writing fluidity • To develop responsibility
Article of the Week (AoW) • When: • Every other week students will receive a new AoW on Monday • On the second Friday the AoW is due & will be stamped • Once a month AoW folders will be collected and assessed
Article of the Week (AoW) • Assessment: • Two (2) AoW’s a month will be assessed • One will be assessed on the standard; the other as daily work • To be assessed on the standard ALL AoW’s for the month must be completed and handed in
Article of the Week (AoW) • Late Work: • Will ONLY be accepted on the last Friday of each month, after school • Student MUST accompany his/her work while it is being graded • There are no Activity buses, so plan accordingly Our reasoning: We are taking extra time to grade the work that student’s chose to turn in late, so students need to put in the extra time too.
Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Correlates with success in school • Growth in vocabulary • Growth in reading comprehension • Growth in verbal and reading fluency • Increases knowledge of the world and human interactions • Increases knowledge of story structure and literary devices • Prepares students to read more complex texts • Become better readers • Raises scores on achievement tests
Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Enjoy reading!
Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Enjoy reading!
Personal Choice Reading • When? • Nearly daily for 7 – 15 minutes in class • 15 minutes nightly at home • What? • Any book that the student selects • Biography, manga, novels, memoirs, manuals, westerns, sports, science-fiction • Textbooks -- not a study hall
Personal Choice Reading • Assessment? • Daily observation • Monthly writings • End of Semester – project promoting thought-filled and creative response to the book
Schoolwires • www.gothunder.org • Questions? Problems? • Contact Tami Hurd • Hand-outs • “5 Keys to Success” • “Cyber-bullying”
Thanks for Coming! Cari Pepper Katie Gammage Paige Oppenhagen