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Mrs. Melinda Hirschmann
West Wilson Middle School
Resource Reading 6th and 8th Grades; Resource English 7th Grade
SCHOOL PHONE:
615-758-5152
I completed my Masters degree in Special Education in 2007 and I am
so pleased to be here at WWMS! Reading is my passion and I read all
kinds of books as often as I can in my free time. I also enjoy bike riding,
hiking, gardening and trips to the beach. I live in Old Hickory with my
husband Tom, who is a composer/musician, and my children Abby and Jake, who
both attend Lakeview Elementary.
I have three general goals for my reading classes: to increase the amount of
time my students spend reading books they have personally selected (we have
sustained silent reading each class period); to improve word recognition,
decoding and reading fluency (by giving direct instruction on reading word
parts and re-reading text); and to improve reading comprehension (by
employing connections, visualization, activating prior knowledge and other
strategies).
My goals for the English classes are to help my students recognize and use
the elements of written and oral language that make our communications so
diverse and expressive. We will study and employ parts of speech, sentence
and paragraph structure, capitalization and punctuation.
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