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Reading |
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Students should be reading Accelerated Reader books. Books are assigned point values. After reading the book, a student may take a computerized test on it. If the student gets 60% of the questions correct, then he/she may earn partial points for a 10 question test. For 100% of the points for a particular book, the student must get all answers correct. More difficult books will have 20 questions, while easier books will have 10 questions. I have seen a 20 question test which required 70% success before awarding points.
Tests must be completed by 5 minutes after the final bell on due date. Students are not to take any other tests after the 2:40 deadline on due date (tests will not count for the next goal until the next calendar day).
In the second grading period (between 04/23/09 and 05/22/09) the AR goals are
1st period: 8.0 points
3rd period: 8.0 points
5th period: 5.0 points
6th period: 5.0 points
Read books on your grade level! Usually, they carry higher point values! This is a shorter period of time due to the EOG test changing the end-of-year schedule. |
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The Accelerated Reader points must be on books for which the school system owns the test. Our media center owns tests for which it does not have books, and it has books for which it does not have tests. There is a page on the Edwards Middle site which lists the tests we own: AR Tests
Please keep in mind that Braswell Library has Accelerated Reader books, but it does not have a testing system. Also, Braswell marks any book from the AR list as AR -- regardless of whether any particular school owns the test. Please verify that we own a test before dedicating long periods of time to a particular book in the quest for points. (Some reading should be 'just for fun,' but make sure you have earned your points!) |
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NEWS ARTICLES |
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Students are to complete ONE news article assignment each week. The news article selected must fulfill one of the requirements from the assignment sheet. There are 15 different choices on the sheet, and students may complete any choice they wish. Once they have done one of the choices twice, however, they must choose another assignment. The news article must be attached to the completed assignment. The assignment must be labeled correctly. Newspapers are FREE in my classroom. |
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Here's the link to the 1st set of news assignments (Sept 16 through Jan 6) |
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Here's a link to the 2nd set of news assignments! (Jan 27 through May 12) |
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CHANGE to newspaper assignments.
To review main idea... Students are to select a news article and list the 5WH questions (Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?) and answer them.
Then, the students will write one well-developed sentence using these answers (to write the main idea). |
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In the fourth grading period, we are studying poetry. |
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updated April 30, 2009 |
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