English

This year we will focus on Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Fluency, and Writing. Listed below are some of the programs and materials we will use in class.

ONLINE RESOURCES:

Below is a list of fun language arts games your child can use at home to reinforce and maintain their languages skills while at home.

Please encourage them to log in and practice (PLAY!) these games during the day.

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READ 180: (NEW!) This is the leading blending learning intervention program building reading comprehension, academic vocabulary, and writing skills for students in grades 4 and up.

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Reading A-Z- a leveled reading program consisting of individual books accompanied by comprehension quizzes and other activities that reinforce various skills (ie: categorizing, inferencing, vocabulary, decoding, etc.)

The following are some of the programs we will be using this year in our English class.

READING:

Follow this link to join Mr. Jackson's

Google Classroom

https://classroom.google.com/c/NzY5MDc4NDM2

RAZ-Kids: An interactive online website from Learning A-Z, creators of Reading A-Z, that delivers hundreds of interactive, leveled eBooks spanning 27 levels. Students can listen to books for modeled fluency, read books for practice, take online quizzes, work on related reading worksheets, and even record themselves reading so teachers can monitor their progress.

Story Town: Reading Program that focuses on reading skills, strategies (ie: main idea, details, predictions, etc.), and vocabulary development (word meaning, use through context, spelling, etc.) Students work on weekly StoryTown packets for Spelling, Vocabulary, and Reading Skills at their individualized levels.

ReadNQuiz: An alternative to AR (Accelerated Reading) where students log in to take online quizzes for books they read in class. This website tracks their performance on reading comprehension.

MobyMax: An online website that targets a wide variety of academic subjects. The program assesses student ability and performance in a number of reading, language, and vocabulary content areas.

Other Reading Websites: Scholastic and Cross Curriculum Reading: reading that focuses on more informational/non-fiction texts.

READING SITES:

Free websites where students can listen to books online:

Storyline Online:

WRITING: Students will learning about the writing process and work on improving their writing skills through a variety of activities.

Among areas that may be addressed:

Multi-sensory Grammar: Parts of Speech
Punctuation, Sentence Formation (complete sentences), and Paragraphs
The Writing Process: Pre-writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing/Sharing
Planning Strategies: Use of “Thinking Maps” (see below) to organize our ideas and put them into writing.
Typing/Keyboarding Skills: Use computers to type; present information/writing
Daily Journals: Write, Type, and Share our responses to daily writing prompts.
Functional Writing: Writing about ourselves (personal information), Types of Letters, Emails, Making Lists, Filling our applications, forms, etc.