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Back to School Night: ELA-B Welcome! Mrs. Catie frederick 7th Grade English Team Gneiss  Email: cfrederick@cbsd.org Website Phone: 267.893.3400 ex: 1592

Noticing You’re going to briefly see an image from Joan Steiner’s book Look- Alikes of a bodega. Afterward, turn and talk about what you saw.

Language Arts 7-B- READING Promoting Book Love! Reading lenses Reading as Writer  Reading as Reader District Core Assessments (MP 3 and 4): Core 1: Citizen Composer (ELA-A) Core 2: Book It! (ELA-B) Course Texts and Areas of Exploration Greek Mythology Tangerine/Waiting for Normal/Schooled The Giver Green Glass Sea* The Call of the Wild*/Where the Red Fern Grows Elements of Narrative/Fiction Various Non-Fiction texts Independent reading/Book Clubs Genre Study “One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.” ― Thylias Moss

Back to School Night: ELA-A Welcome! Mrs. Catie frederick 7th Grade English Team Gneiss  Email: cfrederick@cbsd.org Website Phone: 267.893.3400 ex: 1592 “Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.” -Kelly Gallagher

Language Arts 7-A- WRITING Writing Workshop Model Grading policy: - Summative 80% of final grade - Formative 20% of final grade “Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.” -Kelly Gallagher Deciphering the Gradebook L= assignment late M= assignment should be made-up asap 0= zero credit; assignment cannot be made-up All assignments in summative category must be completed. Student’s grade is a reflection of his/her mastery of the content and skills (at the end of the marking period)

Please hold up your answer! TRUE or FALSE? Please hold up your answer! Out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to up to a thousand words of text in a year.  FALSE! Out-of-school reading habits of students has shown that even 15 minutes a day of independent reading can expose students to more than a million words of text in a year.  Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988

TRUE or FALSE? Please hold up your answer! TRUE! Interestingly enough, an average adult has a vocabulary of 50,000 to 60,000 + words. Your child is in a crucial period of vocabulary development. In the first ten years of their lives, children develop a spoken- language vocabulary that enables them to recognize and make sense of at least 20,000 words, which means an average learning rate of 2,000 words a year, more than five words a day. Did we mention reading is important???

Please hold up your answer! TRUE or FALSE? Please hold up your answer! FALSE! Mary Oliver, poet, estimates that she revises a poem forty to fifty times before she submits it to her editor. Mary Oliver, poet, estimates that she revises a poem five to ten times before she submits it to her editor.

TRUE or FALSE? Please hold up your answer! FALSE! The U.S. Department of Education found that, generally, the more students read for fun on their own time, the higher their reading scores. Between 1984 and 1996, however, the percentage of 12th grade students reporting that they "never" or "hardly ever" read for fun increased from 9 percent to 16 percent. The U.S. Department of Education found no correlation between reading for pleasure and increased reading scores. Fostering a love of reading is so critically important!

Please hold up your answer! TRUE or FALSE? Please hold up your answer! TRUE! Theorists (and working classroom teachers) like Jeff Anderson, Kelly Gallagher, and Penny Kittle suggest a workshop approach to teaching grammar and mechanics: expose students to good models and allow them to explore grammar and conventions in the context of authentic writing tasks using highly effecting mentor texts. As far back as 1936, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) found that the formal teaching of grammar and mechanics had little effect on students’ writing and, in fact, had deleterious effects when it displaced writing time. As far back as 1936, the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) found that the formal teaching of grammar and mechanics had little effect on students’ writing and, in fact, had deleterious effects when it displaced writing time. Mechanically inclined, Jeff Anderson, pg. 15

Thank you. “Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.” -Peter Elbow