 Welcome to 8th grade Language Arts!
I'm excited to be your teacher this year, and I look forward to learning from you and teaching you. For you to learn at your highest level, you will be expected to read every day for at least 30 minutes. This will help you to become a better reader, writer, speaker, thinker, and leader. This is an important investment to make in yourself. Set aside time for reading and it will impact you in ways you never dreamed it could.
I will try to keep this site updated with due dates, extra copies of assignments and notes, and supplemental links to use as reference. Please feel free to email if you have questions, concerns, or comments.
______________________________________________________________________ “Reading Reasons” by Kelly Gallagher, Stenhouse, 2003 Students in the top 5 percent of national reading scores read 144 times more than students in the bottom 5 percent. The average time spent reading for all grades is 7.1 minutes a day in public schools around the nation. There is a strong correlation between time spent reading and higher test scores. In a study of fifth graders by Anders, Wilson and Fielding, the following correlation was found:
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