Literacy Skills-Ms. LaBarbera-Team 6-1

Literacy Skills --Ms. LaBarbera--Team 6-1
First week of School--August 24-28, 2009

Welcome to Literacy Skills class. We will learn reading strategies, read short stories, poems, novels, and discuss literature. Writing responses and reactions to the stories we read will add flavor and zest to our class discussions and literature circles.
Materials to bring to class: Pen, spiral notebook, novel ( as assigned). Set aside a slot in your accordion folder for Literacy Skills. The slot is designated for important handouts/notes and for returning homework.
You will receive information about the STAR test for the Accelerated Reader Program.
We will have an introduction to our school library/media center in the upcoming weeks.

First Unit: Contemporary Realistic Fiction.
Titles will be announced in class.
Story elements: Characterization, Setting, Plot, significant events, and resolution. Through teacher read aloud, short stories, silent sustained reading of novels, and class discussions , we will appreciate literature with understanding.
Novel or theme: To be announced.
Homework will be announced here. We will have lessons covering reading responses and reflections. Practice will take place in class before homework is assigned.
Requirements: Nightly reading ( 20-30 minutes of self selected novel or assigned), reading responses , projects, story mapping, exams ( not always pencil and paper).

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