1. Welcome to 6 th Grade Literacy Hillary Shumate Contact Information: 630-534-7509 hshumate@d41.org

2. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Genre study: Understanding characteristics of realistic fiction, historical fiction, adventure fiction, fantasy, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction

3. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Guided Reading: This time offers strategies that will build comprehension including making connections, synthesizing, repair strategies, determining what is important, making inferences, and questioning skills.

4. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Teacher/student conferencing: Conferencing provides student involvement in the learning process by sharing goals.

5. LITERACY Reading Workshop: Independent Reading: Students are provided choice of book selections from the Making Meaning novel resources, classroom library, and Hadley library.

6. LITERACY Word Study Variety of resources Academic vocabulary Prefixes, suffixes, and root words Strategies Understand meaning Parts of speech

7. LITERACY Writing Process and Writing Products Formats: Quick writes, journaling, narrative, expository, Argumentative, response to literature, poetry Six + 1 Traits: Voice, Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Conventions, Sentence Fluency, and Presentation

8. LITERACY Conventions - CUPS Capitalization Usage Punctuation Spelling

9. LITERACY Speaking and Listening During Literacy class, students speak in group activities and in oral presentations. Discussions Presentations Author’s Chair Book Talks Socratic Circle

10. LITERACY Research and Study Skills Choosing reliable sources Note taking Organizing notes Paraphrasing Works Cited

11. LITERACY Have questions? Need help with assignments? Teacher Web Page http://hshumate.d41teachers.org

12. LITERACY Thank you for coming! It’s going to be a great year!