6^th Grade Reading

1. Esperanza Rising: Learning Not to Be Afraid to Start Over

 

2. Background Knowledge 3. Mexican Revolution 4. Surviving the Dust Bowl 5. The Great Depression 6. timeline 7. Photos

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Why read for 30 minutes, 7 days a week?

 

RESEARCH says

 

percentage rank on reading tests	Minutes of reading per day	Estimated number of words read per year
98	90.7	4,733,000
90	40.4	2,357,000
70	21.7	1,168,000
50	12.9	601,000
20	3.1	134,000
10	1.6	51,000

 

Where do you want your child to be in a few years?

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Tenative Schedule  2011-2012

	September		October		November		December
			3 Literature Circle		1 WKCE Testing		1 Literature Circle
6th g. READING	7 "Hatchet"				8 "Tuck Everlasting"
			17 Independent Reading				15 Independent Reading

January		February		March		April		May
Independent Reading		3 Independent Reading		Independent Reading		class novel		Literature Circle
7 Esperanza Rising"
		15 Literature  Circle		21 class novel?				Independent Reading
						spring break

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