Snoqualmie Valley
School District
Summer School 2015 Course Descriptions
Language Arts
The purpose of the Language Arts Summer School Program is to provide remedial support and
prepare students for demonstrating grade level skills that are aligned with the Common Core
State Standards (CCSS).
Language Arts for Elementary School Students
1st
Kindergarten to Grade and Early Elementary Grades
During Summer School, students will receive systematic phonics instruction to improve their
early reading skills. Students will practice their just "just right" reading level to improve fluency
and comprehension.
Skill instruction will include:
 Phonics and Word Analysis Skills
 Responding to Questions about Key Details
 Retelling Stories
 Identifying Literary Elements – Character, Setting, Plot
Intermediate Elementary Grades
Skill instruction will include:
 Fluency - Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and
when drawing inferences from the text.
 Determine a theme of a text
 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story
 Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated
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Snoqualmie Valley
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Summer School 2015 Course Descriptions
Language Arts for Middle School Students
Within this small learning environment, students will improve their reading and writing skills
necessary to be successful at the next grade level. In an effort to track student progress,
students will intentionally develop a growth plan while working in targeted areas for
improvement.
Skill instruction will include:
 Produce clear and coherent writing
 Understand and apply the steps of the writing process including prewriting, drafting,
revising editing, and publishing
 Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts
 Engage in a variety of skill-based lessons
 Focus on comprehension strategies
 Build vocabulary
 Begin literary analysis using the “Structured Writing” approach
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Snoqualmie Valley
School District
Summer School 2015 Course Descriptions
Mathematics
The purpose of the Math Summer School Program (grades K-8) is to is to provide remedial
support and prepare students for demonstrating grade level skills that are aligned with the
Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Math for Elementary School Students
Kindergarten
Instruction will be based on the Envisions Step Up to First grade. This will include a review and
preview of skills the students will need to be successful in first grade.
 Review of numbers to 100
 Review/Introduction of Addition to 10
 Introduction to subtraction
First Grade
Instruction will include review of topics covered in first grade as well as supplemental
materials.
 Addition and Subtraction within Groups of 20
 Word Problems
 Place Value to the Tens Place
Early Elementary
Students will be placed in class based on instructional need.
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Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping, to 3 digits
Place Value to 10,000
Multiplication and Division Foundational Skills
Math Facts 0-10
Fraction Concepts – What is a fraction, finding equivalence, and fraction models
Intermediate Elementary
Students will be placed in class based on instructional need.
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Use the four operations (+, -, x, /) with whole numbers to solve problems.
Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
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Snoqualmie Valley
School District
Summer School 2015 Course Descriptions
Math for Middle School Students
Students who have finished their grade level math course will receive additional common core
instruction and practice to further develop their math skills. Instruction will include review of
topics covered in their grade level as well as background and enrichment materials. Technology
will be used to supplement and individualize each child’s instruction and assist in tracking their
progress. There will be an intentional focus on using the Mathematical Practices.
Grade 6
Common Core 6 curriculum focuses on basic number sense concepts and doing operations with
fractions. The study of ratio concepts and proportional relationships is a major focus. Students
are to find common factors and multiples. They are to understand expressions and write and
solve one-variable equations and inequalities. In Geometry, students will study area, surface
area, and volume. Probability and statistics topics are developed. The summer school course
outcome is to better prepare students for Common Core 7. There will be a heavy focus on
understanding operations with rational numbers and using math properties.
Grade 7
Common Core 7 curriculum solidifies the student’s ability to analyze proportional relationships
and use them to represent real-world applications and numerical and algebraic expressions and
equation. Students will draw, construct and describe geometrical figures and describe
relationships between them. Geometrical tasks include identifying angle measure, area,
surface area, and volume. Probability and statistics topics are developed. The summer school
course outcome is to better prepare students for Common Core 8. There will be a heavy focus
on understanding operations with rational numbers and integers and using math properties.
Grade 8
The focus of the Common Core 8 curriculum is working with expressions, equations, and
functions. Additionally, students study congruence and similarity as it relates to Geometry and
solve real-world problems involving volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres. Students learn to
apply the Pythagorean Theorem and explore the idea of using numbers that are not rational
and how they can be approximated by rational numbers. Probability and statistics topics are
developed. The summer school course is designed to better prepare students for Algebra in the
ninth grade. There will be a heavy focus on operations with rational numbers, integers, and
using math properties. Additionally, there will be great emphasis on understanding linear
algebra.
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