6th Grade Reading… Extension Activities 28 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 With Standards-Based Grading, students may be at completely different levels of learning. There might be a student completely finished writing her narrative, while another boy is just finishing up his…
6th Grade Reading… The Boring Words Funeral 27 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Today my 6th grade co-teachers and I held a Boring Words Funeral for the overused, boring, '2nd/3rd grade' words in our vocabulary. This was a very somber event. Students and…
6th Grade Reading… My Hamburger Narrative 26 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 The focus of my sixth grade classes is narrative writing: short stories about the student's own lives. To help with the structure of writing a short story, we explained a…
6th Grade Reading… Book Talk: A Face First 23 Oct 20151 Dec 2015 Encouraging students to read is important. As a teacher, modeling reading is even more important! So today I gave a book talk on one of my favorite books from elementary/middle…
6th Grade Reading… What Is Skills Iowa? 23 Oct 201529 Oct 2015 One of the assessments my cooperating teacher uses for her sixth grade Reading/Literacy is Skills Iowa. These are assessments that match with the Common Core and show learner progress in…
6th Grade Reading… Note Card Names! 20 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 It's round two of the note card name tags (well, sort of). Just like I did at the beginning of my first placement at Mason City High School, I had…
