Noredink.com
We created logins for noredink.com to help practice some language arts skills. Students will work through assignment over the next few days to have extra practice with possessive nouns. Assignments 1, 2, & 3 were worked on today during class.
Language Arts 6
The purpose of this class to help students build their knowledge of appropriate grade level vocabulary, improve their writing skills, and to have a better understanding of the fine details of the English language.
Students will quickly become familiar with the daily and weekly routines that will be established in Language Arts 6. Each day, the period will be started with a warm-up written on the board. The warm up will include grammar practice and free writing in their journals. We will then discuss the grammar practice portion of the warm up. The daily lessons will be varied to provide activities and practice of English Language rules and conventions, as well as vocabulary practice. After each daily lesson we will wind down the class period with a cool down activity to sum up what was learned during the period and/or a reading of the class novel out loud.
Nearly every month (or at the end of a unit) we will be showing off all of our new knowledge of the English language through testing. These tests will also-like most things in my class-be varied in delivery. Most will be written exams with multiple choice questions, true and false questions, matching questions, and short answer questions. Some will be project based. Some will be presentations.
Disclaimer: As a whole, our daily/weekly/monthly schedules will form a natural routine that you should come familiar with in no time at all. I do, however, like to vary how lessons are delivered and assessed. With that being said, you can always expect a warm-up, a lesson, a cool down, a quiz, a test, but the way these will be done, will be varied. This is important to me so that no matter which way you learn best, we will hit that way of learning at some point… and also so I don’t get bored. ;)
Students will quickly become familiar with the daily and weekly routines that will be established in Language Arts 6. Each day, the period will be started with a warm-up written on the board. The warm up will include grammar practice and free writing in their journals. We will then discuss the grammar practice portion of the warm up. The daily lessons will be varied to provide activities and practice of English Language rules and conventions, as well as vocabulary practice. After each daily lesson we will wind down the class period with a cool down activity to sum up what was learned during the period and/or a reading of the class novel out loud.
Nearly every month (or at the end of a unit) we will be showing off all of our new knowledge of the English language through testing. These tests will also-like most things in my class-be varied in delivery. Most will be written exams with multiple choice questions, true and false questions, matching questions, and short answer questions. Some will be project based. Some will be presentations.
Disclaimer: As a whole, our daily/weekly/monthly schedules will form a natural routine that you should come familiar with in no time at all. I do, however, like to vary how lessons are delivered and assessed. With that being said, you can always expect a warm-up, a lesson, a cool down, a quiz, a test, but the way these will be done, will be varied. This is important to me so that no matter which way you learn best, we will hit that way of learning at some point… and also so I don’t get bored. ;)