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Objective for Language Arts:
My
mission as a Language Arts teacher is to guide students in exploring their
personal interests, style, and strengths and to help them become more effective
communicators through the processes of reading, writing, speaking, listening,
thinking, and using technology. All students receive two class periods of
language arts instruction each day.
In the 6th grade Language
Arts program...
In Reading Students will...
- Work toward
extending and expanding vocabulary in conversation and written language
- Read,
analyze and discuss folk tales and mythology
- Compare
prose and poetry
- Learn to
identify literary styles and techniques that authors use in both fiction and
non-fiction materials
- Use
strategies for reading in the content area
- Learn new
ways to gather, sort and present information in a variety of formats
- Identify
and follow up on personal reading goals
In Writing students will...
- Summarize
and restate key ideas
- Focus on
descriptive writing involving fiction and poetry
- Write a
simple business letter
- Write essay
answers using evidence and examples
- Transform
research information into clear paragraphs
- Apply
6th grade writing skills (mechanics, usage, grammar)
- Revise
writing through editing, revision and proofreading
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