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Instructor: Charlotte Sause
Course Description Reading:
The Intensive Reading and Reading courses provided are to help motivate and teach striving readers the skills needed to become proficient readers. The main emphasis of these courses will be in the five critical areas of reading.
- Phonics and word study.
- Phonemic awareness.
- Fluency.
- Vocabulary.
- Comprehension.
We will be utilizing The AMP Reading System which is a research based reading system and is a Florida approved textbook. It is a complete reading intervention program designed for middle and high school students.
Each student will establish a benchmark and will be periodically assessed throughout the year using both formal and informal assessments. These assessments are designed to provide information on student improvements and specific areas which may need more attention.
Both courses will also use a variety of other reading materials to include novels, short stories, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries, reference books, etc…Students will learn to apply many different strategies such as activating prior knowledge, stop and think, self questioning, predicting, visualization, and summarizing.
Evaluation:
Students will be graded using a point system for determining grades. Class participation, assignments, projects, quizzes, and tests, will have a certain number of points possible. To determine a student’s individual grade, the number of points earned will be divided by the possible number of points for the 9-week period. That percentage will be given a letter grade using the following scale:
| 90-100 |
A |
| 80-89 |
B |
| 70-79 |
C |
| 60-69 |
D |
| 0-59 |
F |
Make-up work:
A make-up work folder is located in my room. The folder will contain copies of assignments for students who were absent on the day the work was assigned.
It is the responsibility of the student to ask for make-up work after an absence. The students will have the same number of days to ask for and complete the make-up work as the length of the absence. If a student was absent for one day, they must ask for make-up work the next day and turn it in by the end of the next day.
Late Work:
Late work will be accepted only one day late and points will be deducted for late work. No late work will exceed the standards according to rubrics.
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