6th, 7th and 8th Grade Grading Policy
December 09, 2001
The following applies to 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes:
Class grades are based on:
30% Assignments Done in Class
30% Skills Iowa and Skills Tutor
30% Independent Reading
10% Whole Class Book Test
Mid-Term
½ reading points completed
When a student’s Reading grade is a B or above, they may read books that have a 4.0 or above book level no matter what their individual IRL is. There are several excellent books to read at that level too.
Individual Reading Levels are based on:
Iowa Test of Basic Skills- Reading Comprehension Scores
Fall - Stanford Diagnostic Reading test
Daily Homework
Students are asked to read a MINIMUM of 30 minutes each day of the week.
Skills Tutor
Monthly Assignments
Princeton Review
asc.princetonreview.com
Assignments for Skills Tutor and Princeton can be worked on from home too.
Reading Comprehension
Students read a variety of fiction, non-fiction, biography, and poetry. They are expected not only to understand the literal meaning of grade-appropriate text, but also to interpret meaning through complex processes of analysis, inference, and generalization. To read grade-appropriate text with comprehension, students must demonstrate the process of:
Factual Understanding
• Understand stared information
• Determine the meaning of new words from their context
Inference and Interpretation
• Draw conclusions, make inferences, and deduce meaning
• Infer traits, feelings, and motives of characters
• Interpret information in new contexts
• Interpret non-literal language
Analysis and Generalization
• Determine the main idea of a text
• Identify the author’s views or purpose
• Analyze the style or structure of a text
