Grade 5/6
Grade 7
Language Arts
Reading Criteria for Each Term
1.
Most Important: Read at home
for 30 minutes every day.
2.
Prepare for Book Club by writing in your Reading
Journal (write summary without spoiling the story, and a deep-thinking opinion
using our vocabulary words)
I look at your
journal but I do not mark Reading Journals.
They are for you to use to prepare.
3.
Come to Book Club and talk about your book.
Make everyone
want to read your book.
Use the
vocabulary we are learning in class.
Ask your peers
good deep-thinking questions.
4.
Write three book reviews on Biblionasium. Make sure you include a summary and an
opinion.
Update your bookshelf.
Recommend books to your friends
5. Oral Reading Sample - choose a meaning part of your book and practise reading it. Then, upload you reading it to FreshGrade and explain why you chose it.
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Grade 7
Language Arts
THE GOLDEN RULE: READ 30 MINUTES EVERY DAY!
Every week you will be responsible for
- Weekly reading journals
- Independent Writing
- Generally weekly reading or writing conferences
- Feedback (responding to blogs, peer editing, commenting on your FreshGrade portfolio)
Once a month you will be responsible for:
- either a book talk or an author’s chair (see below, near the end)
1. Weekly Reading Journals
– see criteria in your notebooks
2. Writing
You are responsible for writing every week. It is your choice what you want to write about. I will be teaching a new writing technique each week which you will need to incorporate into your writing.
Sometimes you will be given guidelines as to whether it needs to be fiction, non-fiction or poetry but the topic will be your own choice.
You need to choose 1 piece to publish weekly either in paper form or on your blog to share with the world.
During writing conferences, you can take one of these pieces of writing to share in the group.
During Author’s chair you can choose to read one of these pieces to the class.
3. Weekly Conferences
One week we will have reading conferences where you need:
- to bring a book that you are reading to the table
- to practice reading a passage from that book the night before (between 1 – 2 minutes)
- to explain why you chose that piece to showcase (give a connection, question, prediction, inference or explanation)
- to give feedback to your peers when they share their books
The next week we will have writing conferences where you will need:
- to bring a piece of writing that you have been working on that week (needs to have a date and title on it, rough copies only please)
- to come with a self assessment and criteria sheet filled out (each week we will learn a new writing technique which will be added to the criteria sheet)
4. Feedback
As a developing reader and writer you will need to learn how to give and receive feedback.
You can show this by leaving constructive comments on someone else’s blog (see video on how to comment) or by peer editing (please put your name on their page for me to refer to).
You will also be responsible for looking at your FreshGrade portfolio weekly and adding work to it that you think showcases your learning.
Step 1: upload an example of your learning
Step 2: explain what it is
Step 3: explain why is it a good example of your learning; what did you do well and why
Step 4: explain what are you still working on
Step 5: set a goal and explain how you will achieve it
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Book Talk
(once every other month, alternate with Author’s Chair)
Present a book to the class that you want the class to fall in love with. Try to sell it to everyone. Use a prop, a video, a powerpoint, and in general be a good salesperson.
Tell enough about the book to get everyone hooked but not too much! (Don’t read the back of the book.)
Author’s Chair
(once every other month)
Share something you have written with the class. (Something we have discussed in conferences and I have seen your rough copies.)
