Language Arts Newsletter 
Week of February 6th  
 
 
Thank you for the dedicated caring and love you demonstrate for your students daily!
 
 
 
 
 
 

Team ELA is 

Relentless!


 

Cycle 3B instruction week two :


6th-grade focus standards:

6.RV.2.5


6.W.5


The Big Ideas: 

Reference Material

(Introduce Research)

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7th-grade focus standards:


7.RN.2.3, 7.RL.2.3

7.RV.2.1

7.RL.2.

Grammar/usage review

7.W.6.1b, 7.W.6.1d

7.W.6.1e, 7.W.6.2b


The Big Ideas:

*Context Clues

*Influences in Text

*Grammar Review

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8th-grade focus standards:

8.RV.2.1

8.RN.4.3

Grammar/usage review

8.W.6.1c, 8.W.6.1d

8.W.6.1e, 8.W.6.2a


The Big Ideas:

*Context Clues

*Conflicting Texts

*Grammar Review

*Compound sentences

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Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well. 
   -Kathryn Bigelow

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Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. 
  (Sir Francis Bacon)
 

6th Grade: 

 

1. No PLCS this week.

 

7th/8th Grades: 


1. Final review of cycle 3B mini-assessments 


2. Interpreting constructed-response questions


3.  Use the "Diving Deep into the Data and Coming Up with a Few Pearls” document

I shared with you and complete the Week 2 Section.
 
 
 
 
 
 
ISTEP:

  • Testing days are March 1 - 3

  • Make-up days are March 6 - 10

  • Round 1 is paper/pencil


Cycle 3B mini-assessments 

  • Please finalize your review and comments this week. 
 
 
 
 
 

Students can’t answer the questions if they don’t understand them! 
 
 
The importance of academic vocabulary in decoding questions/prompts cannot be stressed enough. Students can’t answer the question if they don’t understand the vocabulary in the question.  

Here are a some very helpful resources:

1. Click here to get an alphabetized list of the assessment vocabulary used in the ELA portion of the ISTEP. It includes the words and phrases students will frequently encounter on the test. Please make sure your students are familiar with these words and have a good working knowledge of the most important ones.

2. Click here to access an editable Google Slides template to type in the key terms and simple definitions your students need.

3. Click here to access a pre-made Google Slides presentation with the twenty-two most commonly used academic words on the ISTEP.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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