Due to closing school, the Sixth Grade Language Arts teachers have come up with a learning plan for students. Please do your best to complete the following assignments before returning to school. We will be using IXL, Read Theory, NewsELA, and your good fit book to help support your learning. Each assignment is explained below:
Read Theory
You are expected to complete 10 Read Theory Quizzes per week. The start date for Marking Period 3 is January 18th. At this point, you should have 35 quizzes completed to receive full credit. Since you are being expected to complete 10 quizzes each week, you should have 65 quizzes passed with a start date of January 18th and an end date of April 12th.
NewsELA
You are expected to complete 3 NewsELA articles while you are out of school. All three of them have been added to our classroom page on NewsELA. You are expected to complete one article each week. The directions for the assignment have been posted with the articles. They are the directions we have been following all year.
Week One: How this Busy Animal Rescue Gets by with Four Full-Time Employees
Week Two: Opinion: With or Without Trophies, Youth Sports Need to be Fun
Week Three: In a “Bizzare” Biological Twist, a Mother Lion Adopts a Leopard Cub in India
IXL
You are expected to complete four IXL lessons each week. The following lessons are required. We recommend you complete them in order to help you be successful:
K. 1-4 Writing Strategies
A.1-Main Idea
D. 1-4 Text Structure
KK. 1-2 Capitalization
LL. 4 Formatting
Good Fit Books
Continue to read your good fit book for 100 minutes each week (5 nights per week for 20 minutes). You should be half way through your seventh good fit book by the time you return to school on April 13th. Please utilize the public library. Many libraries have online services to borrow e-books. One-Pagers Five and Six will be due when you return on April 13th. For those who want to get started, the directions for One-Pager Number 7 will be posted to the blog and attached to this post.
For help with IXL, there will be links to videos posted to Google Classroom.
Stay safe and please email me if you have any questions.