Connections - 6th Grade
This class meets every other day either on an A Day or B Day.
There is no homework associated with this class.
Susan Reider
[email protected] • 410-313-5022
Course Description
This course provides opportunities for incoming middle school students to focus explicitly on reading skills and concepts necessary for continued academic success as students transition from elementary school to middle school. In addition, students will learn study and organizational skills essential to success in middle school.
At the end of this module students will be able to apply:
Materials Needed
One subject notebook
Writing implement
Grading Policy
Daily Classwork 50%
Tests/Projects 40%
Participation 10%
Grading Scale
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
E 59% or below
Week 1
•Getting Started
•Time Management
•Self as Reader
•What’s Your Reading History
•Genre
•Reading Logs
Week 2
•Reading Process
•Note Taking
• Study skills
Week 3
•Study Skills
•Student Reflection
•Vocabulary
Week 4
•Organizational patterns
•Text patterns
•Text features
Weeks 5 and 6
•Paraphrasing
•Summary
• Details
Week 7
•inference
•point of view
Week 8
•main idea
•details
Week 9
•close reading
•annotated text
·
· Inferences
· Point of View
· Main Idea
· Details
·
· Close Reading
· Annotated Text
This course provides opportunities for incoming middle school students to focus explicitly on reading skills and concepts necessary for continued academic success as students transition from elementary school to middle school. In addition, students will learn study and organizational skills essential to success in middle school.
At the end of this module students will be able to apply:
- Reading strategies to comprehend literature.
- Reading strategies to comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text.
Materials Needed
One subject notebook
Writing implement
Grading Policy
Daily Classwork 50%
Tests/Projects 40%
Participation 10%
Grading Scale
A 90-100%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
E 59% or below
Week 1
•Getting Started
•Time Management
•Self as Reader
•What’s Your Reading History
•Genre
•Reading Logs
Week 2
•Reading Process
•Note Taking
• Study skills
Week 3
•Study Skills
•Student Reflection
•Vocabulary
Week 4
•Organizational patterns
•Text patterns
•Text features
Weeks 5 and 6
•Paraphrasing
•Summary
• Details
Week 7
•inference
•point of view
Week 8
•main idea
•details
Week 9
•close reading
•annotated text
·
· Inferences
· Point of View
· Main Idea
· Details
·
· Close Reading
· Annotated Text