MS Resource Classes

This course provides instruction in social, behavior, and/ or study skill related areas as they relate to improving success in school. Instruction in study skills may include skills such as time management, goal setting, selfmonitoring, communication, and organization. Instruction in social, emotional and behavioral skills may include skills such as self management, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision making, and as well as life skills such as organization, attitude, attendance, and punctuality. Learning objectives for this course are individualized and align with student's IEP goals and objectives.

This course provides reading and writing instruction for students in English 6. Instruction is focused on vocabulary and language development, thinking skills, and reading and writing strategies. Reading, writing, speaking, listening, language and collaborative strategies are used purposefully to build knowledge and skills and to help students become independent readers, writers and thinkers as they continue to progressively build the skills necessary for academic success in middle school. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessments in conjunction with IEP goals.

This course provides reading and writing instruction for students in English 7. Instruction is focused on vocabulary and language development, thinking skills, and reading and writing strategies. Reading, writing, speaking, listening, language and collaborative strategies are used purposefully to build knowledge and skills and to help students become independent readers, writers and thinkers as they continue to progressively build the skills necessary for academic success in middle school. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessments in conjunction with IEP goals.

This course provides reading and writing instruction for students in English 8. Instruction is focused on vocabulary and language development, thinking skills, and reading and writing strategies. Reading, writing, speaking, listening, language and collaborative strategies are used purposefully to build knowledge and skills and to help students become independent readers, writers and thinkers as they continue to progressively build the skills necessary for academic success in middle school. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessments in conjunction with IEP goals.

This course provides instruction in basic mathematical skills and concepts with an emphasis on higher-order thinking and techniques for relating problem solving to real life situation. Skills include whole numbers computations, fractions, measurement, money, time, place value, geometry, estimation and calculator use. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessment in conjunction with IEP goals.

This course provides instruction with a continued emphasis on higher-order thinking skills, extending whole number skills to include higher level work with whole number algorithms, fractions, decimals, and further problem-solving using tables, number families and ratios, as well as geometry and probability. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessment in conjunction with IEP goals.

This course provides instruction on increasingly complex problem solving skills, including using ratios and proportions, tables, graphs and other techniques; fractions decimals, measurement, geometry and factorization. Placement in this course is determined by leveled assessment in conjunction with IEP goals.