Welcome to 4th grade Reading!!

I am so glad that you are on this Journey with me through our Journey's reading textbook. Get ready to read some amazing stories that will take you on some exciting adventures as we learn new things and strategies that will increase and instill in you a life long love of reading!

   

Below you will find weekly lesson plans attached in a word document. This plans include the concepts that we are learning this week, classwork, homework, quizzes, test, projects and any other information that you need to be successful in Reading.

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Grading

 Grades in INOW will be weighted as follows: 

• Daily Work/Homework- 10 percent  
• Quizzes- 30 percent  
• Tests and Projects- 60 percent 

 

Summer reading for AR 

• Ends August 17th
• Students may read books from the summer reading list. 
• Students should take an AR test on the books read. 
• After achieving a score of an 80 or higher on the AR test, points will be added to the student’s final reading average for each nine weeks. 
• Example: 1 test with an 80 or above=5 points added to the 1st nine weeks reading average. 2 tests taken with an 80 or above=5 points added to the 2nd nine weeks. 3 tests taken with an 80 or above =5 points added to the 3rd nine weeks. 4 tests taken with an 80 or above =5 points added to the 4^th ​ nine weeks.  
• All books must be from the approved summer reading list forthe student to qualify for this opportunity.  

 AR Login and Parent Portal 

• We will send home your child’s updated AR username and password as soon as possible after the 1​st​ day of school.
• Please make sure to sign up for the AR Parent Portal so that you can track your child’s reading progress and be aware of theprogress they are making toward their AR goal each nine weeks.    AR Reading Requirements:
• 4th Grade students are required to earn 12 AR points each nine weeks. Each nine weeks the count begins again at zero.  Points are not carried forward.  
• Two test grades are given for this requirement: 

 ○ A comprehension average grade for all the AR tests taken 

in nine weeks. 

○ A points percentage grade that reflects the number of points earned toward the 12-point requirement each nine weeks.  12 points = 100, 10 points = 83 and so forth. 

• At the end of the first week in each grading period, the first scores for AR that nine weeks will be entered into INOW even if the scores are still zero. Students will “earn up” each week as they make progress toward the 12-point goal and these INOW grades will change accordingly. AR grades are updated in INOW at the end of the day each Monday. 
• When a student doubles his or her AR points to 24 in nine weeks, he or she receives a bonus test grade of 100! If the points are tripled, a second bonus of 100 is given!  Two bonus scores allowed per nine weeks.  
• Points earned for Summer Reading will count toward meeting the 12 points for the first nine weeks!