Language

Oral Language:

1. listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations

2. use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences

3. reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations

Reading:

1. read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies

2. recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning

3. use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently

4. reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading

Writing:

1. generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience

2. draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience

3. use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively

4. reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process

Media:

1. demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts

2. identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning

3. create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques

4. reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts

Please come prepared to share your thinking, to listen to others and to try new things. This year we will be exploring many different texts and media forms and it is important that we demonstrate respect for our own ideas as well as the ideas of others.

You will do a significant amount of reading in this class. It is expected that each night you find 20 minutes to read something (totally up to you what that looks like). Due to Covid you will need to have a book at school (from Ms. Hemingway's library) and something at home that you would like to read as we cannot have books moving back and forth. This can be anything from a novel to a newspaper article. The important thing is to be consistent.

• A book that you are currently reading - you will need this everyday! At the beginning of the year you will have access to Ms. Hemingway's classroom library and the online library on Overdrive. If you need help finding one talk to Ms. Hemingway or Mrs. Johnson

• 2 Composition Notebooks - One for reading and one for writing

• Language Duo-tang (To be provided by the school)

• Writing utensils

• Reading Kit (provided)

Classroom ID: Kthemingway

Password: Room10

When you have found a book you would like to sign out please send me an email with the subject "Book Request". Please give the title and author of the book to help me find it easily on the shelf.

Please also sign the book out to yourself in Booksource. You are able to have 2 books out at a time. At this point books cannot leave the classroom.