Mrs. Jones-Clyne 8th Grade Reading

My Goals To help make students stronger readers across all academic classes To give students the academic and social skills needed to be a successful 8th grader. To increase student Lexile scores for college and career readiness. To provide a safe, supportive, comfortable, and fun classroom environment To help students discover new interests and develop them

Pick on day of the week to check the Parent Vue Pick on day of the week  to check the Parent Vue. Look for notes about your child's behavior and grades.  Grades are placed in the grade book 1-5 days after the student takes the formative or summative.   Talk your child before emailing the teacher. I encourage the students to email me. As they move  to the high school setting, they will be expected to communicate with the teacher themselves ( Practice Adulting). Grades move up and down each time a grade is entered. I suggest you check grades on Wednesday or Thursdays. Parent Vue

Absent – time make up work will be same number of days absent. Students are expected to check the blog before returning to class. Check the while you were out folder. If you don't find what you need see the teacher before or after class.

Independent Daily Reading/Journal Prompts - During this time students are engaged in self-selected texts at their independent level.  They use this time to practice the skills that are taught during the mini-lessons. Mini Lesson to introduce and instruct (model) a specific reading strategy or skill (I Do) Together, the students and I practice the strategy or skill (We Do) Students then get a chance to practice the strategy or skill on their own or with a partner (You Do)  Closing – Summary/ exit tickets/ thumbs up/down A Day 8th Grade Reading

Themes The Challenge of Heroism The Challenge of Utopia The Challenge to Make a Difference The Challenge of Comedy Themes

The Giver by Loris Lowry, The Lightening by Thief  Rick Riordan The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas by John Boyne Monster by Walter Dean Myers Novel Studies 8th Grade Assigned Books- We will be completing Novel Studies in the last 41/2 weeks

Extended Response expectations   Ideas 10 points 8 points 5 points 1 point 2 details well explained 2 details poorly explained 1 detail With some explanation Simple sentences with no connections Depth of knowledge Punctuation and Capitalization 2 paragraphs Nearly flawless grammar and mechanics. Controlled and varied sentence structure. 1 and ½ paragraphs Few errors in grammar or mechanics; some varied sentence structure. 1 paragraph Some errors in grammar and mechanics; Simplistic an awkward sentence structure. Less than on paragraph Many errors in grammar and mechanics ( i.e sentence structure which makes it difficult to determine what the write means.

Re-Testing Procedure Effective 2nd Quarter Certain tasks must be completed prior to the original assessment to earn an opportunity to take a re-test regardless of the students performance. (I.E practice/homework, study guides) Students will be ineligible to re-test if they do not complete required remediation work. The tasks that are required will be communicated. (I.E Remind 101, Parent vue, Blog, etc.) Effective (2nd Semester) 8th Grade students will be allowed to choose 1 summative per quarter to re-test.   Reasoning: Data has reflected very minimal, if any, improvement in scores when students are not required to complete the supplementary work prior to the original test. Although, they still have to complete remediation assignments after the original test in order to re-test, it’s a much smaller window for preparation. In addition, we are meticulous in our opportunities to prepare and support our students vertically for high school. Re-Testing Procedure

Our class rules are the 5p’s Be prompt Be prepared Be polite Be productive Our classroom is a community. In our community, we have rules to help us get along with each other. Class Rules

BLOG Posted by Monday afternoon with a breakdown of the week’s tasks Daily updates as needed Downloads of assignments Helpful websites and class information When students are absent, they should check the blog first. Come to see me during homeroom for worksheets or to make appointments to complete the missed tasks.

Popular websites we use… Biblionasium Openbooks.net. Commonlit.org Usatestprep.com

Contact The best way to contact me is via email Jennyve.Jones-Clyne@Cobbk12.org. Call the school ext 1701. You will find that I am always reasonable and fair in my expectations in regards your child. Please address any questions or concerns you have with me first. Your child may not know all the information in regards the situation they are relaying to you at home. It is important you allow me to enlighten you prior to seeking out administration or requesting a meeting.