CHAMPS
iLit
Grading
CRMA12
ELA8
100
voice level zero
What is C for conversation?
100
When using iLit in the classroom, this will be your Do Now.
What is Time to Read?
100
You practice your new skill at home and bring back your activity the following class meeting and yes you are graded on this.
What is homework?
100
www.crma12.org
What is the school's website?
100
You are required to use this reading comprehension website, however, you are not graded on it in your English class. If you do not meet the school's expectation on number of passing articles for the year, you will not participate in 8th grade end-of-the-year activities.
What is Achieve3000?
200
"Go to your stations!"
What is M for movement?
200
This activity requires me to read an informational article, answer comprehension questions as I read, summarize the article, and respond critically to a writing prompt.
What are the Interactive Readers?
200
This test is worth a good deal of your grade, it check comprehension, vocabulary, your understanding of learned reading strategies and is taken at the end of a unit.
What is the Benchmark?
200
msmihula@laalliance.org
What is my teacher's email address?
200
This reading strategy helps keep your mind active and interested in the story.
What is questioning?
300
Your teacher says, "turn to your partner and discuss", but you choose not to which expectation are you NOT meeting?
What is P for participation?
300
This iLit component asks you questions about words you might not know.
What is the vocabulary component?
300
These assignments are worth 36 points, remember to answer the last question carefully, it is worth 16 of those 36 points.
What is the Interactive Reader?
300
a small but sturdy American horse which descended from a Spanish horse.....it's also a super fast and sporty car.
What is a Mustang?
300
When participating in classroom discussions, it is expected that you use these types of words.
What is Academic Vocabulary?
400
classwork
What is A for Activity?
400
During this iLit component the teacher works with a small group while the rest of the class completes an assignment independently.
What is Work Time?
400
This is the place you will practice conventions (spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization).
What is No Red Ink?
400
This person teaches 8th grade science class.
Who is Mr. Pelayo?
400
This type of writing is told in the first person, uses sensory details, and includes dialogue.
What is narrative writing?
500
Alejandro kept his voice level at zero during independent work, he whispered a quick question to his classmate because his teacher was working with a small group, he actively engaged in classroom discussions, he even used academic vocabulary words, he moved from one station to another without talking, and he finished his classwork. Which letter of CHAMPS did Alejandro accomplish?
What is S for Success?
500
When you are finished with your work you can go here to read.
What is the iLit library?
500
These graded assignments happen frequently but are not heavily weighted. Hint: they check reading comprehension.
What are the weekly reading checks?
500
I witnessed another student bullying a friend of mine. I want to be an upstander but I am a little worried I will be bullied if I do. When I go home tonight I will ask my parents to help me fill out a report using this website.
What is Bridg it?
500
In this type of writing you must present your claim, a counterclaim, and a rebuttal.
What is argumentative writing?
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