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**Welcome to the Resource Room at Morristown School. ** Our goal is to help students become skilled in reading, writing and math. How do we do it? Reading: Depending on how our students learn, we usually start with phonics. Along with learnign the sound associated with letters, we teach students to recognize sight words. This is done with daily practice with a reading tutor. Students read vocabulary, discuss content and are quizzed to maximize comprehension. When students read independently, the results are very exciting. Many of our students use Accelerated Reader to earn points for prizes at the end of each grading period. =====

 

Writing: Students practice many different kinds of writing forms during the course of a school year. They learn to write friendly and businessletters. Our student write poetry, reports, and essays. Possibly one of the most popular writing activities we do is creative writing. Most of our students have written and published their own books with a copy available for check out in the school library.



Math: Students are assessed to determine where they need to start in order to acquire the concepts they need to be successful in math. Today being "good in math" is so much more than being able to calculate. Our students must be problem solvers. Those problem solving skills will help them in all aspects of the school curriculum not to mention...life. In learning to solve problems we teach students that there will most likely be more that one way to find solutions. Students will learn how to find the best bargain when shopping. How much sod/tile/fabric/paint is needed to cover a certain area. How to create a personal budget for the present and what it might look like in the future. Do you have any ideas for current application of math?