Reading

The 6th grade reading curriculum is a reader's workshop model where students will be responsible to maintain a reader's notebook and reading log. All Reading classes utilize the Reading Fundamentals program which has a central mission to develop, expand, and enhance the skills, strategies, and tools students need to make meaning of and interact with text. Reading Fundamentals Units of Study (Launching, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry) exist inside a balanced literacy framework. Within this framework, there are opportunities to read to students (mentor texts), to read with students (shared texts), and to have students read independently (books and other texts at their independent reading levels).