Welcome to Ms. Hickey's Classroom Reading / Student Support Services

Course Information

How do students come prepared for class each day?

Students' pencils, pens, paper, marker/crayons, reading texts, and class assignments are in the classroom. Students may come to Reading class with their planners. All other materials are provided.

What are the expectations for homework and class work, late work or make-up assignments?

Students are graded on the work completed in the classroom. When a student returns from an absence, he or she will return to the classroom activity or work on missing assignments.

What about Reading Homework?

We expect our students to read for enjoyment (5 days a week for 30 minutes a day). Students may read newspapers, novels, information texts, comics, or school textbooks. Practice helps our students' fluency, stamina and comprehension to improve.

Evaluation of Student Work

The Student Support Services Reading Teachers will select benchmark pieces of student work, running records, Jerry Johns' Reading Inventories, and Scoring Guides for each student. Grading and percents for the Middle School are as follows:

A+ (100-97.5%) A (97-91.5%) A- (91-89.5%)

B+ (89-87.5%) B (87-81.5%) B- (81-79.5%)

C+ (79-77.5%) C (77-71.5%) C- (71-69.5%)

D+ (69-67.5%) D (67-61.5%) D- (61-59.5%)

How to Contact the Reading Teachers

Mrs. Mary Hickey (314)-983-5667 mhickey@ladue.k12.mo.us

Mrs. Jody Rozbicki (314)-983-5520 jrozbicki@ladue.k12.mo.us

Course Expectations

What we want our students to Know, Understand and Do in Reading.

Knowledge

Pre-reading strategies {preview, predict, access prior knowledge, set a purpose and rate for reading} .

During reading strategies {question/correction, inference, visualization, prediction with cueing systems}.

After reading strategies { clarify, analyze, draw conclusions, summarize, paraphrase, respond}.

Reflective writing sentence stems to illustrate pre-reading strategies.

Information for selecting interesting reading material.

Personal interests and learning style.

Good study habits.

How memory works.

Understand

Good readers use pre-reading, during reading and after reading strategies to understand and remember what they read.

Knowing your strengths and challenges as a reader allows you to add and develop skills for improving comprehension.

Writing reflectively shows your use of thinking processes that are invisible to others.

Reading helps many people reach their dreams.

Memory is a skill that can be improved with practice.

Using good study habits and skills improves homework completion and retention of information.

Do

Use pre-reading, during reading and after reading strategies to comprehend a variety of texts.

Use a variety of information to select interesting reading materials {cover, flap,

back, recommendations,authors, genres, award winners, subject}

Read self-selected texts for enjoyment.

Write reflectively in your Reading Journal to show thinking processes.

Use a variety of techniques to improve memory.

Read about the role of reading in the lives of famous people.