READING
EXPECTATIONS AND PROCEDURES
830-393-5350
2009 – 2010
In order to bring
your child to his/her fullest potential, we feel that an optimal learning
environment must be created. This
learning environment MUST include rules for behavior.
We believe that every student wants to behave appropriately in class.
We will not tolerate any student interfering with teaching or another
student’s learning.
EXPECTATIONS:
1. Be in the classroom prepared to learn when the bell rings.
2. Be respectful to self, students, staff and all property.
3. No food/drinks in the classroom (bottled water only).
CONSEQUENCES:
--Minor
Offenses…
1. Warning
2. Teacher consequence (ex. lunch detention)
3. Parent contact
4. Office Referral
--Major Offenses…
Immediate Office Referral
TARDINESS:
Tardiness will result in disciplinary action as outlined in the 2009 –
2010 Student/Parent Handbook.
CHEATING:
(acquiring answers or providing
answers)
Cheating will result in
disciplinary action as outlined in the 2009 – 2010 Student/Parent Handbook.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Students will need
their binder, agenda, #2 pencils, black or blue pens, map pencils, wide-ruled
notebook paper, highlighters, a folder, a spiral,
and I.D.
card. Parents, please check
periodically with your child to see if they are in need of any of these supplies
throughout the year. Not having
materials may result in disciplinary consequences.
AGENDA:
Each student is
issued a Student Agenda for recording the daily class assignments and listing
any homework they may have. It
MUST be brought to school daily.
Parents are encouraged to review the Agenda with their child.
ABSENCES/MAKE-UP
WORK:
It is the
student’s responsibility to ask for
make-up work when he/she returns to school.
The number of days allowed for make-up is equal to the number of days
absent. After that time, points
will be deducted for lateness. If a
student knows in advance that he/she will be absent from school, he/she should
inform the teacher so that the work could possibly be sent home ahead of time.
HOMEWORK:
Homework is an
important part of reinforcing lessons and teaching responsibility.
For full credit, it must be turned in at the beginning of the period (or
as soon as the teacher asks for it).
Students will often have on-going projects, vocabulary lessons, and
independent reading assignments that may become homework.
Please check your child’s agenda
for daily assignments and/or homework.
Assignments should be complete, neat, legible, in black or blue ink
(unless otherwise requested), and on time.
GRADING POLICY:
Daily Work
61%
Tests/Projects
25%
Nine Weeks Checkpoints
14%
Late Work:
(A)
If an assignment is not turned in on the date it is due, then late points
will be
deducted as follows: 1st
day = 10 pts., 2nd day = 20 pts., 3rd day = 30 pts., and
on the 4th day a
ZERO will be recorded.
Parent contact will be made if your
child displays a habit of not turning in work.
(B)
Exceptions are made if a student’s IEP states otherwise.
(C) Reading
Logs have their own policy as stated below.
FOLDERS:
Graded papers will
be returned regularly and placed in the student’s class folder, which will be
kept in the classroom.
Work will be sent
home at the end of each nine weeks period.
TEXTBOOKS:
State-approved
textbooks are provided for each subject for student use during class.
Textbooks may be issued to parents upon request for student home use.
Parents will be responsible for payment of any lost/damaged textbooks.
LIBRARY EXPECTATIONS:
Students are
required to have a book in class every day as part of their book check grade
(see below). Students are
responsible for turning in library books on time and taking care of fines for
overdue books. Students are not
allowed to check out a new book if they owe a fine, have an overdue book, or do
not have an I.D. card.
DAILY
Because reading is a part of
everyday life, we’d like to encourage as much practice as possible - at school
and at
home- so that your child
will feel more confident about his or her ability to read.
Listed below are three of the daily
grades we will be recording
every nine weeks. We feel that
these three components of our reading program are good
for individualized reading
practice and it is this practice that can help build the students’ confidence as
readers.
1.
BOOK CHECKS
- At school, we will have “book checks” to make sure your child is prepared to
read whenever it is required. These
“book checks” will be conducted in your child’s
2.
READING LOGS
- Students will also be expected to
read for a
minimum of 20 minutes at home
every school day, or 100 minutes a week.
They may read to siblings, to you, or they may read independently.
We recommend they read their AR book,
but if they have a favorite magazine, or other books they enjoy, then that is
fine too. We just want the students
to read!
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We will be recording one daily grade each nine weeks based on their at home
reading minutes. If they go beyond
100 minutes in the week, the extra minutes could be used toward extra credit.
The overall daily grade however, will not be entered into the grading program
until the end of the nine weeks because it is an on-going grade. Below you will
find an example of the form that we will pass out to students on Mondays.
This form will be used all week and won’t be due until the following
Monday. You will need to sign IN
INK where it is indicated and please remind your child to get it turned in each
Monday before getting a new form so that their minutes/points can be calculated.
If the Reading Log is not signed by the parent/guardian, we do NOT accept
it. Also, because of advanced
notice in the due date, if students choose not to read and/or not to turn in
reading logs within ONE day of the due date, then a ZERO will be recorded.
______nine weeks
Reading Log pg. 1 of 2
______ period
Student’s Name:
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Students should work to
achieve twenty minutes of daily reading for a total of
100 minutes a week.
Parents please sign (not initial) weekly as well as record the total # of
minutes read that week. I will
initial each week to keep track of completed weekly forms. Please write in PEN
ONLY!! If this copy is lost,
students will NOT get another one.
Their time will have to be kept on their own notebook paper following these same
guidelines.
Week # 1 of 5
from ____________ to ___________
Turn in on: __________Teacher
initial: _____ Date: ______
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I,
___________________________________, verify that my child read a total of
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3.
AR TESTS - Students
will be required to take a minimum number of A/R tests throughout the course of
the
school year.
These tests are based on books (specific to their reading level) that
they have checked out from the library.
Each test WILL be recorded as a daily grade – not a test grade.
If they choose not to read and not to test, then a ZERO will be recorded
as their daily grade. By having this AR
book with them at all times (home and school), then the “book checks” should be
an easy 100 and the “reading logs” should be extremely easy to keep up with as
well. Below lists the number of AR
tests required each nine week grading period:
First
quarter – one A/R test
Second
quarter – two A/R tests
Third
quarter – two A/R tests
Fourth
quarter – one A/R test
These three requirements
mentioned above are intended to increase the reading time of our students,
therefore making them better readers.
As Dr. Seuss said, “The more that you read, the more things you will
know. The more that you learn, the
more places you’ll go.” Thank you in advance for your help and support with this
reading program.