1. Mrs. Jones-Clyne 8th Grade Reading

2. 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

3. 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 ing the teacher. I encourage the students to 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

4. 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.

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

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

14. Contact The best way to contact me is via email
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.