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Language Arts - Noll In the integrated Language Arts program, a body of children’s literature is used with other materials, including a text book anthology, to help emphasize lifelong reading, comprehension and critical thinking as primary goals.

My goal is to improve students’ reading skills and to encourage them to be lifelong competent readers and writers. - Students will be reading from their textbook organized by themes. -These themes will be supplemented with class novels, poetry, online activities and various enrichment activities. -Students will be reading in a variety of ways; whole group, small group and independently. -Students are expected to read 20 minutes each night and respond in their Lit Record. -Students will produce written work both formal and informal in response to what they have read in and out of class.

The reading materials have been approved by the board and are on an approved book list for the district.

Assessment: A variety of assessment strategies are emphasized to determine a student’s instructional needs and academic progress. I believe in immediate feedback so tests and quizzes are graded and returned the next day. All tests are announced in advance and posted. Extra credit is offered once during each grading period at interim time. Earning extra credit is not difficult and students have a week to complete it, so all students should take advantage of this opportunity.

** This is our daily routine in class. **

** Read to Self ** Book Talk- if someone is signed up 2-3 a day

** Whole group instruction- I will instruct a skill/ strategy etc. on what we are working on for the week. **

** WW: This is when students get to work on these things independently. **

Small reading groups Reading / writing conferences Lit Log-


 * fill in log,
 * tally genre,
 * Fill in Bingo and then do writing in Reader’s notebook
 * ( Think About, Character Sketch, Find the Spark,
 * Spotlight On or Reader’s Eye)
 * Put Think Marks in Lit Log folder when done

Write 2 vocab words in Reader’s Notebook and write on easel

Read your leveled reader and write

Daily Fix IT ( DFI)

Grammar work

Work on writing Read to someone

** Listen to Reading **

[|6th grade Language Arts Skill Builders] [|Writing with Writers] [|Finding children's books] [|Newberry Medal and Honor Books] [|Vocabulary games and puzzles]
 * Some Helpful links are listed below:**

Figurative Language [|Personifications, Alliterations, Onomatopoeias, Similes, Metaphors, Hyperboles, Oxymorons, Puns Flash card game] [|Drag and drop the metaphors] [|Fling the Teacher]

Compare and Contrast - choose an article from the site below and compare and contrast the subjects. You can make a venn diagram or write out some simple sentences telling the similarities and differences. [|ReadWriteThink - Compare and Contrast]

Vocabulary [|Words in Context] [|Word Clues] [|free rice vocab game]

Author's Purpose [|Author's Purpose Activities] [|Study Zone Author's Purpose] [|More Author's Purpose]

Inferences [|Quia - What can you infer?] [|Quia - What can you infer 2?] Video- [|Phantom Tollbooth] [|Neil Gamen- The Graveyard Book]