MS. ASIA G. NAVARRO
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6th Grade English Language Arts & Social Studies Teacher
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Teach 40 scholars where 6 are scholars with special needs.
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Martin Luther King Jr. in Passaic, New Jersey
GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Goals:
By completing this project, scholars will be able to use Excel to display
and track their reading progress throughout the academic school year.
Timeline:
All year
Objectives:
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SWBAT track their independent reading logs by genre.
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SWBAT create graphs that demonstrate different genres.
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SWBAT calculate and compare the number of books they have read.
ACTIVITIES
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D.E.A.R. Time
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Independent Reading
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Nightly Reading Requirement
Passaic School District introduced added a 10 minute D.E.A.R. [Drop Everything And
Read] time to our ELA block. Scholars are only allowed to record their reading.
They are not required to submit work.
In addition to D.E.A.R., scholars engage daily in independent reading, in the
classroom, and are required to read 20 every night in order to improve their
fluency and reading comprehension.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including
stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band
proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the
grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed
at the high end of the range.
COLLECTING & EVALUATING DATA
Each month, scholars will track how many books and/or articles were completely
read. Each book will fall into a genre. If the genre is not listed, scholars have the
ability to add the specific genre. Tracking their own reading logs via Excel, allows
scholars to incorporate technology and visually see progress and room for
improvement.
The idea behind an electronic reading log is to track progress and engage scholars to
read different genres. By graphing their results, they will be able to determine and
evaluate their own data.
For example: Scholars will visually see if they neglected a specific genre or see how
they stick to another genre.
BASIC SKILLS APPLICATIONS
Total, Min,
and Max
contain
formulas
using Excel’s
built-in
functions.
Range contains
formulas using
cell references
on the same
sheet.
Months were
completed by
using the Fill
Series feature.
Conditional
Formatting: Rules:
• Less than 3 red
shading
• Greater than 7
Green Shading.
BASIC SKILLS APPLICATIONS, CONT.
Below their plot charts, scholars are able to access a link providing
them with more information about reading logs.
ADVANCED SKILLS APPLICATIONS
Scholars will create a plot chart using all of there data. Each chart will
display their data by month and genre.
METHOD OF EVALUATING
Passaic School District wants to encourage scholars to increase their reading level by
reading independently. The following rubric will be used to evaluate scholars’
reading logs. Scholars must submit their reading log by the end of every month
along with a reflection. Scholars will continue to input information as the year
progressing.
4/4
3/4
2/4
1/4
I gave 90-100%
effort. I filled in
all parts
correctly and
submitted a
detailed
monthly
reflection of my
findings after
analyzing my
data.
I gave 75-89%
effort. I filled in
most parts
correctly; I may
have missed
one or two
parts and
submitted a
monthly
reflection
giving some
details.
I gave 50-74%
effort. I filled in
more than half
the parts
correctly and
submitted a
monthly
reflection but
only explained
myself a little
bit by giving
very few
details.
I gave less than
50% effort or
minimal effort.
I filled in less
than half the
parts correctly
and submitted
a monthly
reflection but
didn’t give a lot
of details or I
didn’t turn it in.
BRAINY BITS
Multiple Intelligences
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Intrapersonal – Being able to reflect on their accomplishments and
areas for growth appeals to the intrapersonal learner.
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Kinesthetic – Being able to use the computer appeals to this type of
learner.
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Visual – Creating charts and inputting their data appeals to the visual
learner.
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Logical – Analyzing their reading log appeals to the logical learner.
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Linguistic – Reading and interacting with literature allows this learner to
excel.
BRAINY BITS, CONT.
Cerebral Lobe:
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Occipital Lobe – Scholars use their occipital lobe while analyzing their
visual representations via charts and conditional formatting.
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Frontal Lobe – All the information scholars receive first travel through
their frontal lobe.
Limbic System:
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Amygdala – Reading allows scholars to tap into their emotions especially
when they get to decide on the literature they wish to embark.
CREDITS
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Sousa, D. (2011). How the brain learns (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, California:
Corwin Press.
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