Extra Effort

Extra Effort- at mid quarter, students will be given the opportunity to complete and extra effort spelling packet.  A due date will be assigned at that time; no late work accepted on extra effort work.  Please see English calendar for assigned and due dates as well.

Students who highlight context clues while completing vocabulary exercises will receive bonus points

Extra effort assignments for sixth grade students are spelling packets.
Spelling packets will be distributed each quarter after mid quarter grades are posted.

Students who study spelling on spellingcity.com receive bonus points.

IXL Grammar/ Extra Effort

Any student who completes the first two lessons in each section of IXL will receive a 100 in gradebook.

A completion certificate should be brought to class on Mondays and turned in with spelling test.   A bonus point will be given to the student upon completion.  Since the spelling list is not online, students should type the list then practice.  If spellingcity.com is not an option, students may write the spelling words three times each instead.  Since there are 6-7 spelling tests per quarter, students have the opportunity to earn 6-7 bonus points for "studying their spelling lists.