Reading and Writing Goals & Expectations
Reading
Writing
The goal for each student is to continue to grow as a reader by using the reading strategies to help them think about and understand what they read. Those strategies are predicting, questioning, connecting, making inferences, determining importance, visualizing, and synthesizing. DRA and Discovery Learning assessments, as well as classroom observations, will help me determine the areas of needed improvement for each child so I may work with them at their instructional level.
Students will have weekly oral fluency homework that needs to be completed with a parent or guardian. It is a proven fact that improved oral fluency leads to improved comprehension when children read silently. Therefore, each Friday students will be given a 1-minute oral fluency assessment based on their weekly homework.
Students will have weekly oral fluency homework that needs to be completed with a parent or guardian. It is a proven fact that improved oral fluency leads to improved comprehension when children read silently. Therefore, each Friday students will be given a 1-minute oral fluency assessment based on their weekly homework.
We teach writing using the 6-trait model. The six traits are ideas, organization, word choice,
sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. Students will use these strategies in all the writing they do throughout the year in all content areas.
In our class, we will also be writing poetry on a weekly basis. Writing poems is a great way to practice and fine tune the writing strategies. The students will be writing free verse as opposed to the poetry genres of haiku, cinquain, couplets, and other forms of metered and rhyming poems. By writing free verse, the students do not have to worry about meeting specific criteria. They can focus on getting the reader to understand their ideas through their word choice, organization, voice, etc.
sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. Students will use these strategies in all the writing they do throughout the year in all content areas.
In our class, we will also be writing poetry on a weekly basis. Writing poems is a great way to practice and fine tune the writing strategies. The students will be writing free verse as opposed to the poetry genres of haiku, cinquain, couplets, and other forms of metered and rhyming poems. By writing free verse, the students do not have to worry about meeting specific criteria. They can focus on getting the reader to understand their ideas through their word choice, organization, voice, etc.
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