The calendars found on the class pages are linked to the Google Classroom site and reflect all assignments posted there. Please use these pages as a way to stay organized and keep up with assignments throughout the school year.
I highly encourage you to explore the information below to learn about language acquisition and the development of interpersonal communication, reading, and writing skills that we will learn throughout the year!
The following rubrics are formative and are meant to help guide students to become better readers, better writers, and better learners.
The BICS Rubric describes the foundational skills that support language acquisition, especially during teacher-guided oral input.
The BICS Self-Assessment is for students to identify their behaviors of engagement & interaction that support language acquisition.
BICS Rubric
BICS Self-Assessment
“There is massive evidence that self-selected reading, or reading what you want to read, is responsible for most of our literacy development. Readers have better reading ability, know more vocabulary, write better, spell better, and have better control of complex grammatical constructions. In fact, it is impossible to develop high levels of literacy without being a dedicated reader, and dedicated readers rarely have serious problems in reading and writing.” Steven Krashen, PhD, Linguistics.
The Habits of Strong Writers Rubric describes the students’ writing performance during timed “fluency writes”