Reading/Language Arts

Skills are taught through a multi-text approach to reading, utilizing fiction and non-fiction texts. The curriculum combines a literature-based approach to reading with direct instruction in reading skills. Students read age-appropriate novels related to the themes across the curricular areas. In addition, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction readings are read along with the novels.

Writing tasks, comprehension work, and various other activities are designed to develop the students’ skills and processes, as well as their higher-order thinking skills. Grammar, usage, and mechanics of the language are taught in an integrated manner within writing and reading tasks.

All units of reading and English Language Arts contain objectives and skills that are evaluated using multiple assessment tools each nine weeks.