Mrs. Cottone ELA Expectations

I grade on a points system. When you see graded work it will have the number of points a student earned over the total number of points possible.

Students should come prepared to class: assignment notebook, pens/pencils, notebook, folder, homework, and ready to learn.

Students are expected to participate in class discussions.

• This is part of their grade.

Students should follow and read all directions given.

Absent work is to be turned in the next full day from an absence, unless otherwise noted by the teacher.

Students are responsible for coming to me when they are absent and finding out what they missed.

I do not give assignments to students early who may be leaving for a trip or other reason.

Students will have an "M" in FACTS letting you know the assignment is missing. It will calculate an "M" as a 0 and will alter the grade until the assignment is turned in. I will deduct 2 points from late work. Assignments should be turned in ASAP. I will not accept missing assignments after the end of a quarter. It will result in a 0 if assignments have not been turned in by end of quarter.

Students will have a page of cursive homework Monday- Thursday.

Students will receive 2 points each day in their writing grade for homework and they will loose 1 point if homework is late or incomplete.

Students will be excused from cursive homework when they are absent.

All work must have a name on it or will result in deduction of points.

Students should be reading for 20 minutes an evening at home.

Students are expected to complete any classwork that they did not complete during class time each day.

Each student has a Daily Fix-it folder that stays at school and has weekly pages of sentences

Students will have 2 sentences each day to fix grammar and spelling errors

I will go over the corrections each day for these sentences

On Fridays, we will have a paragraph assessment that covers the grammar rules that we cover in our sentences each week

• When students take these assessments each week, I will have written on the board the corrections that the students will be looking for and they can check their work

• Example: 2 spelling corrections, 3 capitalize the beginning of sentence, 4 capitalize names and titles of stories

• Students will have one chance to retake an assessment if they score a 75% or below and I will take the average of the two scores

These fix its will be apart of the students writing grade each week

• They can earn up to 5 points a week just for completing these

• Students will loose points if sentences are not complete each day

We just started reading Because of Winn-Dixie.

Students will be keeping this book at school most days.

Every three chapters there will be a short assessment on those chapters.

There will be short reading comprehension questions that will be done in class every three chapters and will be taken for a grade.

Students will have a folder that they will carry from class to class.

In this folder will be a behavior sheet for teachers to comment on.

• Comments will consist of: missing assignments, negative behavior, positive behavior. Students leaving the classroom, and missing items for a class.

Students will also put any assignments that need to be sent home in this folder as well.

Parents will need to check this daily and sign the sheet daily.

The behavior sheet will be collected on Monday and graded.

Grading will consist of the following:

• - 1 point for missing items/assignments

• -5 points for negative behavior

• + 1 point for positive behavior

Total weekly points will be out of a 100.