Use basic rules of English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in written work. Listening & speaking Class participation Participate in class discussions about complex sixth grade topics, texts, and issues. Be prepared to refer to evidence in a text when discussing ideas, to restate ...
Provide a graphic organizer and a list of topics for students to write about. Have students use their graphic organizer to map out their paragraphs based on their side on the chosen topic. The intro should include their argument and personal connection. Their body paragraphs should include their...
Dist. 12 6th-Graders Make Their Mark on Writing Test
she shared how she studied the checkout data of books and found this: 6th grader checked out 16,000 books/yr (about 40 books per kid), her 7th graders, 4000 (about 13 books) and 8th grade only 1000 (3 books per kid). She knows there are many reasons for the decline ...
Previous research on modality effects supports the notion that writing modality can have an effect on output fluency, though results are inconclusive. In a sample of 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders Berninger et al. (2009) found that alphabet recall was more rapid when typing compared to writing by...
facts. Try this app:Math Fact Master: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division; you can set the app activities to each child’s ability. For older students, or for more math topics, consider theALEKS online math program, orArt of Problem Solving, especially for Algebra and above....
(If you have not read this aloud to your grade 6, 7 or 8 class – YOU MUST!) She spoke of the importance of not shying away from tough topics when it comes to writing books for middle graders. Her new book is a heartfelt and emotional novel about grappling with grief and the const...
The results showed that the invented writing group performed significantly better than the control group on the post-test for the measures of phoneme awareness (d = .54), spelling (d = .65) and word reading (d = .36). Additionally, indirect effects were observed on the delayed follow-up...
I was having a very difficult time with my fourth graders at the time, more so because it was an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) class with very limited vocabulary. I was going crazy because they had trouble constructing a single paragraph. I stumbled upon your program and decided to...
childhood favorite. Oddly, I had all but forgotten that little girl with the brown pigtails until a random day in the school library with my first graders. I was pursuing shelves, hunting for an unexpected literary gem, when a very worn red spine caught my attention: a copy ofB is For ...