Ms. Garabedian's Class Website

• Reader's Workshop Model
• Includes independent/self-selected reading, leveled reading, and guided reading
• Reader's response notebooks, written critical thinking/comprehension activities, projects
• Incorporates texts, trade books, literature circles, book projects, reading across curriculum.
• Benchmarks, various forms of assessment used to track student reading levels during the year.

• Write Traits Curriculum used in combination with our Writer's Workshop Model
• 6+1 Traits of Writing: Idea Development, Organization, Sentence Fluency, Word Choice, Voice, and Conventions will be worked on throughout the year.
  
• Developing writer's craft, Journal Writing and Conferencing
• Writing across curriculum
• Multi-paragraph essay through writing process independently
• Genres:  Expository, Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, Poetry, Research Reports, On-demand Writing (i.e. MCAS standardized testing prompts)

• Zaner-Bloser Spelling Connections Curriculum
  
• Phonics Patterns
• Language Usage
• Steck Vaughn Elements of Reading Curriculum Vocabulary

• A combination of ThinkMath curriculum, supplemental material, and direct instruction for real life connections and challenge.
  
• Spiral approach - skills revisited throughout the year for mastery.
• Number Sense & Operations - number theory, place value, problem solving, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division , fractions, decimals, & percents
• Patterns, Relations & Algebra                                           
• Geometry & Spatial Sense
• Measurement
• Data, Analysis, Graphing & Probability

• Geography:  Map & Globe Skills
• Economics: U.S. Natural Resources
• Symbols of America
• Civics & Government:  Immigration & Citizenship
• Native Americans
• Regions of the United States
• Canada & Mexico

* Technology will be intergrated across the curriculum for instruction, student practice, and projects.
** Refer to Watertown Public Schools Website for specific standard-based mastery outcomes.