Turn Your Classroom Expectations into a Song, Poem or Chant!

Turn your classroom expectations into a joyful shared reading experience! Your students will easily remember and apply concepts from these fun and interactive twists to regular classroom rules! Expand activities to include writing small group and/or individual classroom expectations; challenge older student to design and present using multimodal media.

Standards of Learning

• Use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings.
• Listen actively and speak using appropriate discussion rules with awareness of verbal and nonverbal cues.
• Participate in and contribute to discussions across content areas
• Summarize information gathered in group activities.
• Orally express ideas clearly in pairs, diverse groups, and whole class settings.
• Summarize the main points a speaker makes, and connect comments to the remarks of others.
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate with diverse teams, while sharing responsibility for the work.
•  Work respectfully with others and show value for individual contributions.
• The student will expand vocabulary. 
• Develop and use general and specialized content area vocabulary through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• Using common sight words to write classroom expectations
  

Older Students 

• Create multimodal presentations that effectively communicate ideas
• Effectively use verbal and nonverbal communication skills to plan and deliver collaborative and individual, formal and informal interactive presentations.
• Use language and style appropriate to the audience, topic, and purpose.
• Identify the purpose and audience of auditory, visual, and written media messages.
• Explain how an author’s choice of vocabulary contributes to the author’s style.
• The student will write in a variety of forms to include narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive. Engage in writing as a process.
  • Select audience and purpose.
•  Use precise and descriptive vocabulary to create tone and voice.
• Vary sentence structure by using transition words 
• Revise writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information. prepositional phrases.
• Self- and peer-edit writing for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, paragraphing, and Standard English.
  • Use plural possessives.
  • Use adjective and adverb comparisons.
  • Use interjections.
  • Use prepositional phrases.
  • Use commas to indicate interrupters, items in a series, and to indicate direct address.
  • Use a hyphen to divide words at the end of a line.
  • Edit for fragments and run-on sentences.
  • Use correct spelling of commonly used words.
  •  Use coordinating conjunctions.