6th Grade - Reading (ELA) (Period 4) Assignments

Please see the attached rubric for our final project in reading. Presentations will be next Wednesday (periods 4 & 7) and next Thursday (period 1). These projects will be completed in class if learners use their time wisely. If not, some of this project may need to be completed for homework. 

Please refer to the attached study guide for sample question, text, and response for our third writing about reading quiz on Monday, April 29th. 

This Friday, we will have our second writing about reading quiz. The question students will respond to along with a sample text and sample response are included on the attached pdf. 

Attached is the question and sample response that learners can use to study for their writing about reading quiz this Friday, March 22nd. 

We are currently preparing for our end of unit Nonfiction Reading Assessment. We will take this assessment in two parts. The first part (questions 1 & 2) on Tuesday, February 26th and the second part (questions 3 & 4) on Wednesday, February 27th.

 

Attached is study material to prepare for this assessment. We will be going over this in class, but I encourage learners to also practice writing their responses to these questions in preparation for the assessment. The attached files are sample articles and responses. The questions will be the same (without bullet points), but the articles will be different. 

 

Attached you will find: 

Attached is the TED Talk project information. This is a group, in-class project that learners have been working on all week. These projects will be presented this Tuesday, the 19th. 

 

As we near the third trimester, we want to further prepare our learners for success in 7th grade, 8th grade, and high school. As a result, we will be focusing on the following ROAR expectations: being on time to class, having all materials, and using technology properly. Please see the attached document for specific information regarding these ROAR expectations in all sixth grade classrooms. We have explained this focus to learners and we appreciate your support! 

If your learner received a score of 6.5/10 on any question in either Part 1 and 2 of the Nonfiction Reading Assessment, please see the information below: 

 

On Monday (4th) and Tuesday (5th) of next week before we head to Pali and the trimester ends, I will be available during lunch and after school to help learners revise their responses and raise their grade to a C on this assessment. Please let your learners know to tell me when I should expect to see them. Thank you for your support!

This message is for a due date change because of Grandparents' Day activities. Please see below: 

 

1. Vocabulary handwritten study tools are now due Monday, the 28th, rather than this Friday, the 25th. 

2. Grammar Workbook pages 361-370 are now due Monday, the 28th, rather than this Friday, the 25th. 

 

If your learner would like to show me their study tool or workbook pages tomorrow, Thursday, the 24th, I will mark their work done early. 

 

Thank you!

Tuesday, the 22nd, learners will take a Writing about Reading quiz focused on the topic of summarizing. For studying, I have attached is the question (#1 on page 1) the story "It's No Walk in the Park" (pages 3 & 4), and a sample response for how to complete this question. 

 

On Thursday the 17th we will practice taking this quiz in class with "It's No Walk in the Park." This will not be for a grade. On Tuesday, a new story will be chosen, but the question will remain the same.  

Dear 5^th and 6^th Grade families,

 

            It’s that time of year! JSerra will host their 3^rd Annual Spelling Bee on January 30th!  As of now there will be eight schools competing in this year’s big event, including the defending champion Mission Basilica. In order to select participants to represent St. Edward the Confessor in this competition, your learner will participate in an in-class spelling bee. This will take place in their reading classes on Wednesday, January 16th. The learners should prepare themselves by studying the attached list of spelling words. If there are any questions please contact me at [email protected]. Happy studying and Let’s Go Monarchs!!

 

In Service,

Rhobley Montelongo

In preparation for our class spelling bee, learners should write or type unknown words from the word list by tomorrow, Friday the 11th. In class on Friday we will work with these words and talk about strategies for studying spelling. As a reminder, our in-class spelling bee is next Wednesday, the 16th!

Learners were assigned an in-class project after completing their nonfiction books. The class will present their completed posters with their book club grous on Wednesday, the 19th during Reading class. The project asks learners to gather details from the text and explain how these details contribute to the central idea. The project rubric is attached. 20 points will go to the learners' Reading grade weight and the other 25 points will go to the Speaking & Listening grade weight.  

ATTENTION 6TH GRADE: Due to the number of tests on Monday, Mrs. Keown will be postponing her vocabulary test until after Christmas break. It will be on Tuesday, January 8th.

 

If you would like to take your test before break, Mrs. Keown will be available during lunch next Tuesday, the 18th in Room 221

Learners will be writing about their reading so far in their nonfiction texts. Learners can use their annotations and book club discussion notes to help respond to the following prompt: 

 

1. Find three details from your nonfiction text

2. Explain how these details fit together and begin to develop the central idea. 

 

We practiced this in class last Thursday, learners were given feedback, and examples were shown the following class period. 

Below are corrections to this week's newsletter: 

 

1) There is no vocabulary test this week. The study guide on Google Classroom is due this Friday, the 30th and the test on those words is the following Friday, the 7th. 

 

2) We are still waiting on our final shipment of books for our nonfiction unit. This means there is not yet one book for each learner. The rest of the books will arrive by this Friday, the 30th. Due to this delay, I will not be requiring learners to read at home until they receive their own copy of the book on Friday. All required nonfiction reading this week will take place in the classroom during workshop time. All annotations this week will be taken in in-class reading notebooks.

 

Tomorrow, learners will choose the books they would like to read during this unit. Attached is the list of books to choose from. 

Learners will take their end-of-unit reading test in two parts on Tuesday, October 6th and Wednesday, October 7th. Attached is study material for this assessment.

 

The questions and sample responses attached are based on the novel Okay for Now. Though the test questions and format will be the same, the learners will be responding using a different text. They will not know what this text is until the day of the assessment. Learners will not be given the bullet points on the actual assessment, so they need to know what to include for each question.

 

Some ways to study for this assessment are by making flashcards for the bullet points on each question, practicing writing a sample response, and/or reading through the sample responses and highlighting where each bullet point was answered.

Originally, learners were asked to be finished with their second fictional novels by Monday, November 5th. I have extended this deadline to be Friday, November 9th. 

For this first vocabulary test, ALL learners can complete corrections for half credit back. For all other vocabulary tests, learners can complete corrections if they received below a 70%. These corrections will be due by Friday the 12th of October. 

 

Our next vocabulary test is Monday, October 8th. All learners should be prepared to recall the word (there will not be a word bank), recognize the correct definition, use the word in the sentence, and spell the word correctly. 

Learners need to complete their vocabulary study guides for week three by tomorrow, Thursday the 11th. This needs to be turned into Google Classroom by 8:00am for full credit.

Learners, please complete your first in-class reading book by Monday, October 8th. Please read at home (and on the weekends if necessary) in order to meet this goal. 

2 Reading Assignments due tomorrow, Thursday, September 27th: 

*By this Friday, September 14th, have at least three character trait annotations completed for your in-class novel. Annotations can be on post-it notes or in your Reading Notebook. 

 

*Bring your fictional novel to Reading Class each day. 

 

*Read for at least thirty minutes each night!