Mrs. Studer's 8th Grade Reading & Writing Workshop

January 29, 2009

2009-01-29T11:06:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Review Question from the "Power of Powerless"- Evaluate your answer compared to the models.
Read "Neighborhood" and complete question concerning problem and solution.

Writing Workshop: Print off a copy of your draft of an I-Search Paper for tomorrow's class.

January 28, 2009

2009-01-28T12:47:00.002-06:00

Reading Workshop: Students annotated the text "The Power of the Powerless" and they thought about the decision their character selected.

Writing Workshop: Completed their I-Search Introduction & Process by looking at their Secondary & Primary Sources. Complete Research by February 14, 2009 with their primary sources:)

January 27, 2009

2009-01-27T08:18:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop: Main Problem of a Story

Writing Workshop: Continue working on I search Paper

January 26, 2009

2009-01-26T13:35:00.002-06:00

Reading Workshop: Annotate Text for "Swimming in the Snow" by highlighting the problems the character's face.

Writing Workshop: Complete Introduction for the I-Search and begin process paragraph.

January 23, 2009

2009-01-23T09:56:00.004-06:00

Mini-Lesson: Reading Workshop- Facts/My Thoughts Graphic Organizer

Writing Workshop - Start I Search Paper- Check out the Process

January 16, 2009

2009-01-16T11:00:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop- youtube video on Martin Luter King, Jr.

writing Workshop- Attach Face-off Writing to the Webboard:)

January 12, 2009

2009-01-11T21:56:00.003-06:00

Reading Workshop: Looking at Nonfiction Text
Context Clues
Summarizing

Writing Workshop: Draft for Face-Off Writing

January 9, 2009

2009-01-09T13:28:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop: Assessment on Paraphrase

Writing Workshop : Revise your setting writing:) Begin Face-Off Writing

January 8, 2009

2009-01-07T16:45:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop - Paraphrasing Stations. See Mrs. Studer for make-up.

Writing Workshop - Revise for details and begin polishing setting piece.

January 7, 2009

2009-01-07T16:42:00.002-06:00

Reading Workshop - R1H Paraphrase
Mrs. Studer shared from her reading book, Journal for Jordan, and modeled paraphrasing. Think about how you paraphrase your author's words. Share.

Writing Workshop -
Mini-lesson Strong Controlling Idea in our Setting Writing.
Draft your piece.

January 6, 2009

2009-01-07T16:40:00.003-06:00

Reading Workshop- We went for Library Day! Discovery of a good book! Practiced the "Zone."

Writing - Begin Setting Writing Assignment:) Think of a place and then brainstorm what is there when you are by yourself and then when you are there with lots of people.

January 5, 2008

2009-01-04T20:15:00.003-06:00

Welcome Back! I have missed you so much! Let's start the new year with fresh thoughts and a positive mind!

Reading Workshop: Discover new book for workshop. Benchmark Evaluation:)

Writing Workshop: Journal Writing - Why the importance? Journal on the time off from school!

December 18, 2008

2008-12-18T20:57:00.002-06:00

Reading Workshop: Review Benchmark score:)

Writing Workshop: Complete and publish book!

Half-Day tomorrow!

December 17, 2008

2008-12-16T13:00:00.002-06:00

Benchmark Testing!

December 16, 2008

2008-12-16T12:56:00.002-06:00

No school due to snow!

Think about writing today:)

What would you write about?

...a personal writing of something memorable about today or another snow day

...a poem that shows the mood of this day for you

...a descriptive writing about the scene outside your window

Happy Day! Mrs. Studer

Brainstorming - writing

2008-05-12T07:45:00.001-05:00

What are some problems that Bode students experience? Once you have listed 10 problems then how can we change them for next year? What is it that you want changed and what is the solution?

April 14-18, 2008

2008-04-16T10:26:00.001-05:00

Science MAP testing!

Work on creating Children's Book for elementary school!

April 7-11, 2008

2008-04-16T10:24:00.001-05:00

Communication Arts MAP testing! Hillyards field trip on the 11th.

Happy Testing Week!

March 31- April 4

2008-04-02T10:05:00.002-05:00

We are gearing up for the MAP test which is next week for Communication Arts! We will be reviewing reading strategies and writing formats this week. Students will be taking the MAP test in MATH on Wed., Thurs., and Friday!

Reading Workshop - March 27, 2008

2008-03-27T07:55:00.002-05:00

Read the passage and complete the question.

What is the most important event of the passage? Use details and/or examples from the passage as your support.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dmtjwt9_12drxdcsgs

March 27, 2008

2008-03-27T07:13:00.001-05:00

Early Out! Parent Teacher Conferences:)

Reading : Assess Important Event

Writing: Organize items for conferences - Reflection Form

March 26, 2008

2008-03-27T07:12:00.005-05:00

Reading: Reteach Important Event

Writing: "Thoughts" Writing

March 25, 2008

2008-03-27T07:12:00.003-05:00

Reading Workshop: Review Benchmark

Writing Workshop: Thnak you letter to career day speaker!

MArch 20, 2008

2008-03-24T15:18:00.002-05:00

Career Day! Early out! Spring Break begins...See you on Tuesday!

March 19, 2008

2008-03-24T15:16:00.003-05:00

Reading & Writing - Media Reading:) Wrap up material for the 3rd quarter!

Career Day Tomorrow!

March 18, 2008

2008-03-24T15:16:00.001-05:00

Benchmark Test!

March 17, 2008

2008-03-24T15:14:00.001-05:00

Reading - Go over Review for the Benchmark!

Writing - Pen-pal Letter

Benchmark Test tomorrow!

March 14, 2008

2008-03-14T14:29:00.003-05:00

Reading - Evaluate answers from yesterday's constructed response lesson. Revise and turn in for new grade.

Writing- Benchmark Review! Benchmark on Tuesday:)

March 13, 2008

2008-03-14T14:27:00.002-05:00

Reading Workshop - Evaluate Information - Worksheet (See teacher).

Writing Workshop - Turn in pen-pal letter & complete Internet search.

March 12, 2008

2008-03-14T14:25:00.004-05:00

Reading Workshop - Discuss key terms to use when working with searches for the Internet and research.

Writing Workshop - Review Search terms by completing Internet Hunt:)

March 11, 2008

2008-03-10T14:39:00.003-05:00

Reading - Complete investigative reseach topics.

Writing Workshop - Complete two links assignments and print for grade

Primary and secondary Source - http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/sources/sourcesmain.htm

Name research - http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=660&title=

March 10, 2008

2008-03-10T14:38:00.002-05:00

Reading Workshop - Investigate reseach topics

Writing Workshop - Begin research writing plan

March 5-7

2008-03-10T14:37:00.001-05:00

Reading Workshop- Reflecting on how author's write good leads to books.

Writing Workshop- Reviewing and Revising lead for editorial and complete rock letter.

March 4, 2008

2008-03-04T11:49:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop: Library Day and begin new status check card.

Writing Workshop: Type editorials:)

March 3, 2008

2008-03-04T11:47:00.002-06:00

Mrs. Studer is back!

Reading Workshop: Book-talks on new books:) Review procedures & routines. Conferenced with students on grades.

Writing Workshop: Work on editorials and business letter for the rock sample.

Mrs. Studer's Maternity Leave

2008-02-18T09:12:00.002-06:00

I am excited and sad to leave the classroom. But I will only be gone six weeks. Next time you see me, I will hopefully be 40 pounds lighter :)

Satchel Robert Henry Studer was born at Heartland Hospital on January 21, 2008 at 4:36 p.m. He was 22 inches long and 8 pounds 4 ounces. Thanks for all the calls and cards; I can't wait to see you all on March 3.

Remember to post your writing assignments to the class WeBBoard. If you have any concerns, address it on your post or if you want to limit your audience e-mail me at stacia.studer@sjsd.k12.mo.us.

December 21, 2007

2007-12-28T11:56:00.001-06:00

Early Out! Christmas Dance and movie! See you again on the 2nd of the New Year!

December 19-20, 2007

2007-12-28T11:54:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Returned and organized materials for Reading Workshop - ALL library books are due the 20th.

Writing Workshop: PTSA Reflections Contest Poems due on the 21st:)

December 18, 2007

2007-12-18T11:44:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop: Independent Reading Activity - Inference, Mood, and Theme:)

Writing Workshop: Peer Revising Activity - Praise & Polish.

December 17, 2007

2007-12-18T11:42:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Independent Reading Activity for the rest of the week on inference, mood, and theme.

Writing Workshop:
Type PTSA Reflections and post to Webboard.

December 11-14, 2007

2007-12-14T14:55:00.001-06:00

NO SCHOOL DUE TO ICE STORM:(

December 10, 2007

2007-12-14T14:53:00.000-06:00

Mrs. Studer attended Literacy Academy wtih DESE.

Reading: Review with Theme Assessment

Writing: PTSA THEME - "I can make a difference by..."

December 6-7, 2007

2007-12-14T14:51:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Wrap-up Mood Activity and Complete Assessment on Mood!

Writing Workshop: PTSA REFLECTIONS DUE BEFORE CHRISTMAS BREAK!

December 5, 2007

2007-12-05T15:58:00.000-06:00

Early-Out!

Reading Mini-Lesson: Mood - in class activity with mood words.

Writing Mini-Lesson: Pen-Pal Letters or PTSA Reflections Writing

December 4, 2007

2007-12-05T15:57:00.000-06:00

Reading Mini-Lesson: Graphic Organizer for Inferencing

Writing Mini-Lesson: Brainstorming for PTSA Reflection

December 3, 2007

2007-12-05T15:55:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Correct Main Problem & Solution page

Writing: Begin PTSA Reflection Writing

November 28-30, 2007

2007-12-05T15:44:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Problems & Solutions - See teacher.

Writing Workshop: Lay-out Book due on Friday!

November 27, 2007

2007-11-26T16:07:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop:

Reteaching of Roots & Affixes

Writing Workshop:

Turn in piece from 1st quarter for publication. Also draft and lay-out children's book.

November 26, 2007

2007-11-26T16:05:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop:

Examine Theme Assessment/Focus on Contxt Clues- See teacher for Make-up.

Writing Workshop:

Drafting/sharing of children's book. Post your ideas to Webboard.

November 21, 2007

2007-11-21T17:03:00.000-06:00

Early OUT! HAPPY THANSKGIVING:)

Create bulletin Board Display - See Teacher!

November 20, 2007

2007-11-21T17:02:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Assessment of Theme - Man & Boy Passage

Writing Workshop: Drafting of Children's Book for Elementary Pen-Pal

Novemebr 19, 2007

2007-11-18T16:43:00.001-06:00

Reading workshop: Revisit theme. Reflective on our assessment of theme and revised our Novemebr 14 theme of "Just Once." Reteaching of theme.

Writing Workshop: Completed drafting of children's story.

Novemebr 16, 2007

2007-11-18T16:41:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Complete Sharing of Movie-Maker project.

Writing: Write to our elementary pen-pal.

Shorten classes due to pep assembly.

Novemebr 15, 2007

2007-11-18T16:40:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Class reading of "Just Once." Assessment of theme.

Writing Workshop: Share Movie-Maker project.

Novemebr 14, 2007

2007-11-18T16:38:00.000-06:00

Reading Workshop: Students read children's books to discover theme within the story.

Writing Workshop: Students worked on incorporating a theme to their children's book.

November 13, 2007

2007-11-18T16:37:00.001-06:00

Reading Workshop: Students worked on Movie-Maker project.

Writing Workshop: Students developed characters and plot for their book.

November 12, 2007

2007-11-18T16:36:00.000-06:00

Reading: Students completed Movie-Maker project to sell their favorite 1st quarter book.

Writing : Students began their brainstorming their ficitonal children's book.

November 5-9, 2007

2007-11-18T16:33:00.000-06:00

November 5-7 - Students reviewed district benchmark test results and worked on portfolio items for parent teacher conferences. Parent Teacher conferences are Thursday from 2:30-6:30. Please come by and visit with me.

November 8-9 - Veteran's Day Activities. No assignments.

November 1, 2007

2007-10-31T16:51:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Reflection on Reading Workshop for 1st Quarter.

Writing Workshop: Clean-up day with portofolio pieces. Reflection on writing!

October 31, 2007

2007-10-31T16:50:00.000-05:00

Reading : Discuss Favorite book and why "what are some of the words that grabbed you as a reader."

Writing: Work in Computer lab creating movie maker project.

October 30, 2007

2007-10-31T16:49:00.002-05:00

Benchmark Testing in Reading & Writing! See Mrs. Studer about make-ups:)

October 29, 2007

2007-10-31T16:49:00.001-05:00

Review for Reading & Writing Benchmark!

October 22-25

2007-10-31T16:47:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Jargon, dialect, and slang

Writing Workshop: Biography Writing

October 15-19, 2007

2007-10-18T17:36:00.001-05:00

Reading Workshop: Looking at Context Clues and Analyzing Text

Writing Workshop: Instruction in use Capitalization, Semicolon, colon, and hyphen through the use of biography writing

October 8-12

2007-10-18T17:31:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop Activity - Looking at Context Clues

Writing Workshop Activity- Pumpkin Carving & Descriptive Writing

October 2, 2007

2007-10-02T16:11:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Discussed Prefixes that allow good readers develop vocabulary.

Writing Workshop: Used Micrososft Editing as a revision tool.

October 1, 2007

2007-10-02T16:10:00.001-05:00

Students were asked to choose their favorite passage from the text. Then during the writing workshop, they were to post their favorite passage and make a connection with media by looking for a picture on-line.

September 25-28

2007-10-02T16:08:00.000-05:00

Writing Workshop: Students worked on the blog and published their pieces of writing like point of view and personal narrative. Must be posted by Monday @ 8:00 a.m.

Reading Workshop: Students worked with booktalks and their predicting words.

September 24, 2007

2007-09-24T13:42:00.001-05:00

Mrs. Studer attended a DESE workshop for communication arts today. I will be back tomorow:)

Writing Workshop: We worked on sentence fluency with our personal narrative.

Reading Workshop: Seltect 5 predicting words from your novel.

September 20, 2007

2007-09-21T11:39:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: SRI testing & library day!

Writing Workshop: Type personal narrative!

September 19, 2007

2007-09-19T17:17:00.001-05:00

Early out! Work day for your personal narartive! SRI testing tomorrow and Library Day!

September 18, 2007

2007-09-18T15:58:00.001-05:00

Reading Workshop: Complete SAW Workheet!

Writing Workshop: Revise for specifc words within personal narrative!

Early out tomorrow!

September 17, 2007

2007-09-17T15:31:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Context Clues and Thersuas

Please see teacher for make-up of that worksheet.

Writing Workshop: Took out our "DEAD WORDS"

September 14, 2007

2007-09-15T13:44:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Students read independent reading books while teacher conferenced with individual students on their reading fluency.

Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson: Conclusions - Students evaluated conclusions and we discussed what their conclusion should have for their personal narrative. Rough Draft due Monday!

September 13, 2007

2007-09-13T17:33:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Students read independent reading books while teacher conferenced with students on reading grade-level text.

Writing Workshop: Students read personal narrative called "Snapshots." Then we discussed the importance of our leads. Evaluated samples and discussed which one was the best, which one was okay, and which one needed lots of work. Then students reflected on their lead and created or revised the lead for their personal narrative.

September 12, 2007

2007-09-13T17:30:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Students worked on creating a connection chain that connected ourselves to our reading books.

Writing Workshop: Drafting Day! Draft the story of your personal narrative!

September 11, 2007

2007-09-11T20:11:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Students worked on completing the decoding sheet and then worked on a connection worksheet. Please see teacher for make-up work.

Writing Workshop: Discussed 1st Writing Assignment - Personal Narrative . We began by creating a "heart map."

September 10, 2007

2007-09-10T16:56:00.000-05:00

Writing Workshop: Hands-on Activity with Play-Dough.
Think about a topic for your personal narrative.

Reading Workshop:
Mini-lesson: Dictionary Usage
See teacher for lesson.

September 7, 2007

2007-09-10T16:54:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: We talked about the decision we made when we chose our book in the library. Then we took time to make connections to the text with who we are.

Writing Workshop: Review Friendly Letter - Write letter to Jim.

Please see teacher for this day!

September 6, 2007

2007-09-06T16:32:00.000-05:00

In our mini-lesson today we talked about "How do I choose a book?". After our mini-lesson, we went to the library and choose a "just-right" book. We then modeled the reading time for working in the "Reading Zone."

September 5, 2007

2007-09-05T13:39:00.000-05:00

Students shared their photo and its story with their writing group. The students were then asked to write a 50 word caption for the picture in their notebook. They were asked to post their photo with their caption on paper provided by teacher and decorate it. The students viewed the photos and read the captions.

September 4, 2007

2007-09-04T15:16:00.000-05:00

Reading Workshop: Mini-lesson: Definition of Prediction. We read the story "The First Day of School" by Jeffery Deaver. Click on this link to read the 1st portion of the story "The First Day of School." Make a prediction about what might happen next.

Writing Workshop: Mini-lesson: Correct Friendly Letter Format
We wrote a personal goal letter letter based off a former 8th graders advice using the friendly letter.

August 31, 2007

2007-08-31T15:49:00.000-05:00

Reading : Structure of the class & Norms- "World Cafe." Please see the anchor chart for your hour in Mrs. Studer's room.

Writing: Click on this link and Complete Writing Inventory.

2007-08-30T17:43:00.001-05:00

D-TEAM TEACHERS ENJOYING THEIR FIRST DAY!

August 30, 2007

2007-08-30T15:25:00.000-05:00

The first full day of school for the 8th grade.

Students completed the reading inventory for the district and the classroom.
They also completed a "What's easy and hard" sheet about reading & writing.
Their homework tonight is to get their parent letters signed and returned to Mrs. Studer by September 6. You can find a copy of this letter at this site http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dmtjwt9_0f384mb .

August 29, 2007

2007-08-10T09:29:00.000-05:00

8th Grade reported at 11:00!

Here was the schedule for the day:)
Enrichment Study - Bode Expectations during enrichment study.
6th Hour - Students received agenda and wrote important days down to remember.
7th Hour - Review Bode Expectations
8th Hour - Review Bode Handbook!

Please bring a picture of yourself for Tuesday!