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Background Knowledge Needed with Curricular Texts

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Background Knowledge Needed with Curricular Texts

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Many of the texts in our curriculum needed extensive building of background knowledge. This took quite a bit if additional planning and class time.

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Incorporating academic vocab., so students understand questions being asked--How to answer.

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Incorporating academic vocab., so students understand questions being asked--How to answer.

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I'd like to see some work with word families and root words/prefixes/suffixes because those are skills they can apply to any vocabulary or unknown words.

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We need to do at least one novel study differentiated to the instructional levels.

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In 6th grade we need to write multiple informational paragraphs

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Students have difficulty with word processing and formatting paragraphs and writing.

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Students have difficulty with word processing and formatting paragraphs and writing.

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We need to have more differentiated texts. The kids can listen to difficult texts but they need to do more reading with their eyes. Can we rewrite some texts at a lower level? Or use some Newsela?

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8th grade should introduce the basics of MLA formatting and in-text citations since high school is using it.

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The short videos of students discussing texts in our materials are good.

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6th grade needs to hit hard central idea early on and come back to it at least once a quarter.

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6th grade could have used more focus on text structures, text features, and author's purpose. They also could use some genre study so they can identify what type's of genres they enjoy. These things do not have to be extensive units, though. We noticed kids suffered a bit from not knowing thee things,

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Concerned about Literary analysis Unit 2 being placed in 3rd quarter. Unit 2 sets up the year for responding to literary analysis Think questions and story questions. Have you considered this?