1. Organization

1. Keep up assignment log
2. Check internet website
3. Keep returned papers in a folder
4. Keep up voc. notebook
5. Keep backpack neat

Check internet website:
http://skyview.vansd.org/bquestad/index.htm

2. Make-up for absences

1. Check website when absent
2. Check classmate for vocabulary
3. Come to Dr. Questad outside of class time
4. Use yellow late pass

1. Web site updated
2. After school appointment

3. Improve Vocabulary Scores

1. Study words before the test while eating
2. Check teammate sentences and images
3. Use image and sentence examples from class

Drill student while eating

4. Improve Writing Scores

1. Read over your essay to yourself
2. Read over your essay to parent or guardian
3. Ask a parent to be your editor

1. Let student read you essay so s/he hears how it sounds and can correct on the spot
2. Read student essays and make suggestions on it. Sign as an editor.

1. Teacher editing and some chances to redo
2. Peer editing time in class
3. Writing time in class beginning with a step-by-step Thinking Page

5. Improve Reading

1. Have a book at reading and interest level
2. Organize book into section goals so that you are done by due date
3. Remember book for SSR
4. Go to school library before or after school to get a book if you need a new or additional one.

1. Monitor a nightly reading time.
2. Check that student always has a book.
3. Trip to Vancouver Public Library. Ask Information Desk Librarian about High Interest – Low Level books

1. Library Pass during SSR (but you lose points)
2. Once a month class trip to library
3. 20 min. of reading in class on most Monday, Wednesday and Fridays

6. Computer or Teacher Contact

Before or after school by appointment

1. Send home periodic English grade reports
2. Grades kept updated on Website