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Links are included that can help as we cover various topics.
Our vision is to immerse students in an engaging, literacy rich environment where they are provided with opportunities to acquire the knowledge and skills essential to become proficient readers, effective communicators, and critical thinkers as we prepare them for college or a career in the 21st century. Our commitment is to provide an Extraordinary Education Every Day through a balanced literacy approach in every classroom.
-RSSS Literacy Framework Vision Statement
English, Language Arts Classes in the 21st Century
You may have noticed that what students are being asked to do for school has changed over the years. We are preparing our students with skills needed to be productive citizens in society and leaders of the future. Not only are students required to know the basic content of each subject but they are also responsible for sharing what they know with others. The classroom experiences that they have will look very different than before the digital age of education. Below you will see some resources that will give you an idea for what a typical English, Language Arts class will look like.
High Interest Reading Resources
Beginning in fourth grade and continuing into middle and high school, the focus of literacy shifts from learning to read to reading to learn. Below you will find resources used by students and teachers that allow students to become better readers within all of their subject areas. These resources also allow for students to read text that is on their instructional level, which means that the text being read should not be too easy or too hard. Within an instructional level, students can improve their reading ability dramatically in a short amount of time.
Building Vocabulary
Each of the following resources will help students build vocabulary at their own speed and at their own instructional level. These websites challenge students to become better readers and writers by allowing them to encounter new vocabulary in an entertaining way.
Reading, Vocabulary & Language Resources
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Reading Strategies
Reading comprehension requires that students get involved with the text before they read, while they are reading, and after they have read. We will utilize many strategies throughout the year to get students really thinking about what they are reading and how they can make meaning from it along the way.
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Creating / Sharing / Writing
Below you will find a gathering of websites and apps that allow students to take ownership of their learning and creativity as they produce products to share with others. A large part of the English, Language Arts curriculum includes writing, speaking and listening. Students are allowed choices when deciding how they would like to share their expertise with others.
Homework / Self-Paced Student Learning Opportunities
While in class, students will spend much of their time working on standards-based projects. These are normally guided using student contracts or choice boards. Much of the time students are provided with tasks that they must complete before moving on to tasks that are geared more towards their own interests.
During class time, students are provided numerous visuals to let them know if they are keeping an appropriate pace. They will also meet with me in guided groups multiple times throughout the week. The only time students are required to do prescribed homework from the day is if they are falling behind with goals set in class.
Not having a lot of homework allows each student to participate in a number of Self-Paced Learning Opportunities.
Options include: Achieve 3000 articles, MobyMax (Vocabulary & Language), Membean vocabulary practice, Media Center & School initiatives
During class time, students are provided numerous visuals to let them know if they are keeping an appropriate pace. They will also meet with me in guided groups multiple times throughout the week. The only time students are required to do prescribed homework from the day is if they are falling behind with goals set in class.
Not having a lot of homework allows each student to participate in a number of Self-Paced Learning Opportunities.
Options include: Achieve 3000 articles, MobyMax (Vocabulary & Language), Membean vocabulary practice, Media Center & School initiatives