WELCOME
Welcome! This is my 26th year teaching Language Arts in the Westwood Regional School District. I graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ where I also played basketball for the Lady Knights. I am a mom to three beautiful children ages 17, 14, and 11!
I am very passionate about reading and writing and hope to instill the same love for literature with my students. Students will be reading in class as well as for homework with their individual reading goals set between 20 and 60 minutes per night (15 pages or more). Parents, please monitor their reading and actively question and discuss their books with them.
FOR ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS
SUPPLY LIST
Grade 6 Core Supply List
2023-2024
Supplies may need to be replenished/replaced throughout the school year.
For multiple classes:
pens (black/blue ink)
pencils with erasers
earbuds/headphones - a pair and an inexpensive backup pair
1 ream of loose leaf paper, 3-hole punched, to share among classes
4 different colored highlighters
Colored pencils
Glue Stick
Hand-held pencil sharpener
Individual tissue packets
2 Boxes of Tissue - bring to social studies class for distribution across grade
Mini, unscented hand sanitizer
Language Arts
2 marble composition notebooks
a folder
thin Sharpie(s)
pack of colored pens
multi-pack of 3x3 inch Post-its
Math
1 inch binder
1 divider
Physical Education
Sneakers & appropriate athletic clothing
Book Recommendations: click on the FIRST CHAPTER FRIDAY link below:
Scholastic Book Orders
Scholastic is a great place to purchase books for your children at reasonable prices. Occasionally, your child will come home with a book order form which you can check off, and send back with cash or check. However, you can also make your purchase online by clicking the following link:
Our class code is H2VM8
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course Description: Literacy Workshop provides support and opportunities for students to practice, develop and demonstrate their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills in deeply engaged ways. In Literacy Workshop, students work to apply what they learn through literature to the world around them. Literacy Workshop asks students to read and write in a community that honors productivity, preparedness and respect for its members.Students will set goals for themselves and learn how to make plans for meeting those goals through authentic self-reflection. The workshop concept is based on the idea that choice, relevant tasks, and extended time to read and write will greatly increase a student's motivation to learn and their capacity to succeed in school and beyond.
Current Unit of Study:
Character Analysis
Resources:
Ideas for Write Longs:
A struggle in the text
Character evolution/change
Character revelation(they have just discovered something about themselves)
Surprising /Contradictory moment
What is the author trying to tell me?
Advice given/taken/needed
Common themes across chapters
A strong theory you may have with evidence to support it
Others' treatment of the main character
A lesson a character learned from a mistake
Something you discovered while reflecting on your chart(s)
If you are in search of a new book, please click How to Use Destiny Catalog and Search for Titles.
Use this link to search WRMS' Destiny Catalog to borrow a book.
To learn more about Our Reading and Workshop at the middle school, please click this link
Opting Out
In middle school, as our students mature, so do the texts available in our libraries. Our students' developmental levels widen greatly, even within each grade and classroom, and as such, our texts mirror those different levels. We encourage parents/guardians to review their student's selections and to reach out to the teacher with any questions, concerns or requests.
Should you not want your child reading any particular title, you need only email the teacher and it will be noted and/or the text changed the next school day. Feel free to review our list of titles for each classroom through our Library Catalog. For classroom libraries, click on the "sublocation" dropdown to locate the teacher's name.