Middle School ELA

Developing and supporting a love of reading is the highlight of our classroom. We use research-proven reading strategies to continually grow students' comprehension and a Greek- and Latin-based vocabulary program that multiplies students' vocabularies exponentially. Each class meets once in the morning for independent choice reading and vocabulary and once in the afternoon for our grammar program, reading comprehension practice with informational texts, and whole class reading and discussion or writing activities.

Weekly reading response letters are due at the beginning of class each Friday. Students have instructions for these in their binders, and you can view them here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xagOUrxrR5mnIVX09KV5zECLzPzJ7cfG598_g3Yz1Z0/edit . You can also view an example of a reading response letter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XYTEORaUMVLiFwNil3cHRRmLgzatCn8UbXc81CFd2uQ/edit .