Language Arts

&
Reading
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What will your children learn this school year?

● Reading
● Writing
● Grammar
● Spelling
● Vocabulary
● Cursive
● Social Studies
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Reading and Writing Workshop

What is reading workshop

Each reading unit represents about five to six weeks of teaching, structured into
three or four “bends in the road.” Rather than tackling the entire journey all at once,
it’s easier to embark on this series of shorter, focused bends, pausing between each
to regroup and prepare for the next. ( Lucy Calkins)

What is writing workshop?

Each writing unit represents about five to six weeks of teaching, structured into three
or four “bends in the road.” Rather than tackling the entire journey all at once, it’s
easier to embark on this series of shorter, focused bends, pausing between each to
regroup and prepare for the next. (Lucy Calkins)
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We love our reading area and Reading Tree!
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Grammar
Scholastic and Sadlier Oxford
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Spelling Mastery Program

● Wordly Wise 3000® provides direct academic
vocabulary instruction to develop the critical
link between vocabulary and reading
comprehension.
● The robust activities, peer sharing, and
differentiated instruction allow the flexibility to
meet the needs of today’s varying student
population.
● Phonemic approach - helps beginning
spellers learn the relationships between
spoken sounds and written letters and then
apply them to spelling
● Morphemic approach - exposes advanced
spellers to prefixes, bases, and suffixes
● Whole-word approach - gives spellers at
all levels the meaning and root of a word
and shows how the word's spelling is
influenced
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Daily Editing

Reinforce punctuation, capitalization,

grammar and understanding of sentence
structure with skill-building activities for
every day of the school year! Our journal
has daily level-appropriate sentences that
contain grammatical errors.
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Language Arts Grading

● Homework 15%
● Classwork 15%
● Spelling Tests 20%
● Writing 20%: daily editing
and writing

● Grammar Tests 30%

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Vocabulary
Wordly Wise
Wordly Wise Program

Wordly Wise 3000® provides direct

academic vocabulary instruction to
develop the critical link between
vocabulary and reading comprehension.
The robust activities, peer sharing, and
differentiated instruction allow the
flexibility to meet the needs of today’s
varying student population.

QUIZLET- learning, practicing, reviewing

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Readworks.org
Reading Comprehension Instruction that Works

The nonprofit ReadWorks partners with K-12 teachers across the country to
solve our nation’s literacy crisis.

ReadWorks does this by bridging the gap between research and practice in
reading comprehension instruction. We leverage cognitive-science research to
create high-impact instructional materials and tools that are designed for
immediate use within the practical realities of current U.S. classrooms. As a
result, over 1 million teachers and 13 million students are using ReadWorks to
improve teaching and learning in their classrooms today.

Independent Reading
Requirements
● Chapter books based on
your child’s reading level.
● Nightly reading. Beginning
first marking period with 20
minutes a night for 3rd
grade and 30 minutes a
night for 4th grade.
● Moving into reading 80
pages a week for 3rd grade
and 100 pages a week for
4th grade
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Tracking Reading
● Reading Logs.
● Students must read a
minimum of 4 days a
week.
● Log reading on Reading
Log.
● Brief reading report upon
completion of the book
● Adding book to our
READING TREE
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Reading Grading

● Vocabulary Homework
15%
● Readworks Homework
15%
● Vocabulary Tests
20%
● Reading Log
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Student Log in
Email: Ex: Spelling: 3rd grade Readworks.org
williamd21@shesnj. Username: ● Go to website.
org williamdogger ● Click login
Password: Ex: with Google.
First and last name
● Click 4th grade
Wd081211 Pw: Spelling3 Parry
initials plus Spelling: 4th grade
birthday
Username:
The year in the
williamdogger
email is the year the
student is leaving First and last name
Stone Harbor. Pw: stone123