Literacy Skills for December 1-5, 2008/ 6-1

Literacy Skills for December 1-5, 2008/ 6-1

Thirty minutes of nightly reading are expected of all students.

Due: December 8, 2008: Extended Response ( Use HOOT or your current AR novel.)
Prompt: Identify Cause and Effect: Describe an event that causes the character to react. Highlight a statement in the section you read that shows a chain of events occurred as a response to an action or statement of one of the characters in the story. Your extended response must follow the rubric. Do not retell the story. Respond to the prompt.

HOOT Projects are due as the book is being completed. There are extensions through December since students are completing the book at varying rates.

Accelerated Reader tests must be completed by all students.

The second trimester begins December 1, 2008.