WelcomeMrs. Goetz

Period 1-2 Mrs. Goetz and Mrs. KreutzerGrade 6 English

Room B-11

1. Please sit at your child’s desk.

(Refer to seating chart at each table. Red is period 1-2;

Green is period 5; Blue is period 7-8)

2. Please sign in.

3. Please read your child’s goal card and write down your

goals.

Thank you for visiting!Your children have shown themselves to be

• Individuals•Respectful•Cooperative•Curious•Eager •Thinkers•READY

All About ME!

• Mom• Education• Careers• New York• Weston• My HAND

Goals

• Social, emotional and

learning needs

• Safe and secure

environment to promote

risk-taking

• Supportive classroom

community

• Your child’s success!

Philosophy

• Balance

• All children can be

successful

• Attitude matters

• I am a teacher, a helper!

• Students respond to

high expectations

Curriculum Overview

• based on Columbia University’s Teachers College

Reading and Writing Workshop Model

• focuses on the internal process of composition and

comprehension rather than the final product

• Knowledge is transparent and transferrable

“The more you read, the better you write; the more you write, the better you read!”

Reading Genres Writing Genres

Narrative (memoir, realistic fiction, and fantasy)  

Narrative (memoir) 

Non-Fiction/Critical Literacy (Digital Print Media, Analyzing Texts in Digital Form)

Persuasive Writing 

Action Research 

Action Research 

Literature Circles Genre Choice(Expository review)

Author Study Fiction Writing 

Poetry Poetic Writing 

Reading Workshop

• Teach reader, not book• Self-select books•Mini-lessons• Small groups•Direct instruction groups• Conferences•Goal setting

• Leads to • Engagement• Achievement• Comprehension•Depth of Understanding

Qualities of Good Reading• Read monitoring for sense• Read making connections to our lives• Reading thinking about characters• Read being in on the interior thoughts of characters• Read asking questions about the text• Read listening for the voice of the text• Read with a critical eye• Read checking the text against what you know • Read thinking new thoughts• Read to add onto what you know• Read to help you understand something• Read making connections to other texts• Read noticing crafts• Read thinking about BIG IDEAS• Read following a line of thought• Read building an overall interpretation (what does this all mean?)• Read with a purpose• Read and Reread!

Reading Record

Vocabulary : Self-Collection

Writing Workshop

• Teach writer what writers do• Process driven• Envisioning• Planning• Drafting• Writing• Editing• Revising• Publishing

•Mini-lesson• Independent work• Conferences• Independence

Personal Spelling Words

Technology

• Cloud

• Virtual desktop

• Virtual printing

• E-books

• Wikis

• Blogs

• Glogster

• BYOD

• Edmodo

• Parent Edmodo

Classroom Community

• Tissues• Cups• Classroom help• Area of expertise• Period 7: snack & water

Home Support

• Nightly reading• Refer to as. notebook• Monitor time online• Contact me!

Great to meet you!

•Please look for your child’s hand on the way out!!!