Welcome! 7 th Grade Language Arts Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Eichmann, Ms. Jasicki, Mrs. Rebarchik

1 st Period 7:08-7:22 Passing Time: 7:22 – 7:29 3 rd Period7:29 – 7:41 Passing Time7:41 - 7:46 4 th Period7:46-7:53 6 th Period8:10 – 8:17 Continue with Fall Open House Schedule Day 1 Schedule: Language Arts and Math share the 2 nd period.

Room Tour: Portfolios – Sacred Writing Time Portfolios – Storage, Target sheets, etc. Reading and Writing Conference Areas Reading Challenge & Requirements Notebook Organization Attendance and Make Up Work Textbook and IDR Individual Daily Reading

“Individualized Daily Reading” Students will be expected to read 30 minutes each day at home. They record pages read during this time as IDR S (School) and IDR H (Home) each day in their assignment book. They will total their reading pages and minutes at the end of each week to report on Monday morning. Students will experience IDR time at school and participate in lessons and modeling to improve reading, writing and discussion skills. Teachers will meet with students individually or in small groups to assess, support, reteach, and enrich. Students will respond in various ways using the text they are reading. Their book or text choices are very important in this process.

 A major goal of the Hastings Middle School is to have students form successful reading habits. Daily Reading at home and at school are required to build good reading habits.  Students are required to read 30 minutes daily at home and record this information in their assignment book each day.  Students will conference with teachers and record weekly totals each week, involving time, pages read and content.  Students will also complete oral and written responses to books they are reading individually.  Students may also be required to read assigned novels; these novels will also count toward their reading requirements and weekly reading.

L = Lexile Level 7 th Grade Measures sentence length and complexity and vocabulary. Guided Reading Books are assigned guided reading levels based on several general expectations and capabilities of a reader. As the levels progress, the books become more difficult. Each level is based upon the increasing complexity of ten benchmark common book characteristics that readers encounter at all stages of the reading process from when your child picks up his or her first book through the time when he or she becomes a fluent reader. These guided reading categories are: Genre: The type of the book Text Structure: How the book is organized and presented Content: The subject matter of a book Themes and Ideas: The big ideas that are communicated by the author Language and Literary Features: The types of writing techniques employed by the writer Sentence Complexity: How challenging the syntax is of each sentence Vocabulary: The frequency of new words introduced in the book Words: The ease at which the words in the book can be figured out or decoded by a reader Illustrations: The correlation and consistency of images and pictures in the books to the words printed on the page Book and Print Features: The physical aspects of the printed word on the page.

L = Lexile Level 7 th Grade Measures sentence length and complexity and vocabulary. Guided Reading—SCHOLASTOC Books are assigned guided reading levels based on several general expectations and capabilities of a reader. As the levels progress, the books become more difficult. Each level is based upon the increasing complexity of ten benchmark common book characteristics that readers encounter at all stages of the reading process from when your child picks up his or her first book through the time when he or she becomes a fluent reader. These guided reading categories are: Genre: The type of the book Text Structure: How the book is organized and presented Content: The subject matter of a book Themes and Ideas: The big ideas that are communicated by the author Language and Literary Features: The types of writing techniques employed by the writer Sentence Complexity: How challenging the syntax is of each sentence Vocabulary: The frequency of new words introduced in the book Words: The ease at which the words in the book can be figured out or decoded by a reader Illustrations: The correlation and consistency of images and pictures in the books to the words printed on the page Book and Print Features: The physical aspects of the printed word on the page.

Thank you! Enjoy your evening!