Reading a difficult text without any purpose is deadly! It’s essential to read purposefully, interacting with the text in order to understand it, maintain focus, remember what you read and form an opinion about it.

What's with the class name... "Voyager"?!?

The word "Voyager" is the name of the reading series used as a teaching tool in my classroom. It has grade level, high-interest (mostly non-fiction) short stories that provide instructional opportunities and word study.

You can check out the program website here.


Monday, August 5, 2013


Voyager students will have their first quiz this Thursday, Aug. 8th. The quiz will be over the "Larry Bell" 12 Powerful Words. . .except I've added another!  The word "delineate" has been spotted on a few standardized test lately. We're not going to let this BIG word intimidate us. We're going to conquer that beast!
We are still reviewing procedures and making sure we are creating a "well-oiled machine" to maximize our learning time for the rest of year.  
Encourage your teen to review these "POWERFUL" words for the quiz on Thursday! 


12 ,13 powerful words

Trace - means to outline
analyze - to break apart
infer - read between the lines
evaluate - to judge
formulate - build /create
describe - tell me all about it
support - back it up
explain - tell me why
summarize - the short version
compare - things that are alike
contrast - things that are different
predict - think about the future

*delineate - to describe in sharp or vivid detail
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