Mr. Levy’s Wonderful World of Language Arts A Day Without Language Arts Is Like A Day Without Sunshine…

What are our goals for your children? SNEAKER STORY What are our goals for your children? Selling Sneakers? Critical Thinkers! Problem Solvers!

Our Classroom The Student Experience: Quick Start (Let’s get thinking!) Daily Mini Lesson Now you! Conferencing (Individual Instruction) One-to-One Initiative: Chromebooks Grading vs. GROWTH

BALANCED LITERACY Turning Students Into Effective Communicators! Reading Instill a love of reading! Build Stamina Studies indicate that sheer volume of reading increases reading comprehension. Independent Reading! Let’s have some fun! Writing * Literary, argumentative, informational, and creative writing for a given audience.

BALANCED LITERACY Turning Students Into Effective Communicators! And let’s not forget… PUBLIC SPEAKING!!! TED Talks

“The Complete Middle School Experience!” The Whole Student: Social Emotional Educational

GRADING and RETAKES LANUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT Grading Policy: Reading 40% Writing 40% Grammar 10% Word Study 10% LANUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT Retake Policy: Retake Policy is on my website It’s all about GROWTH!

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