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October 31, 2006

Students will review the DISSECT Strategy for multi-syllabic words. Apply skills to new words. Complete interactive activities on the Promethean board. Continue mastery of main idea in outline and paragraph form. Complete STARS Assessment to target reading comprehension strategies.

Parents: Please make sure your student has a binder for reading class and 5 divider tabs. This was requested in the reading syllabus given the first week of school. Thank you.

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October 24, 2006

Objectives:
finding the main idea in a paragraph, creating main idea sentences, writing main idea sentences, and completing a two level outline.
Insights to Reading Unit 2 pgs. 55-83

Remember: You should read 20-30 minutes every night (5 out of 7 nights) and list it on the reading log.

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Language!
Seventh graders are beginning Unit 13, lesson 2.

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October 11, 2006

Students will be learning the Dissect strategy for multi-syllabic words. Part of this process is understanding and recognizing prefixes, suffixes, and roots. We will make a prefix flip book, complete worksheets, and interactive promethean board activities.

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