Language Arts - Reading:

English Language Arts (ELA) Overview

English Language Arts courses engage students in meaningful reading, writing, speaking and listening experiences that encourage critical thinking skills. Our curriculum equips students with skills they need to succeed in middle school and beyond. In ELA, this means a balancing of informational and literary text, a transferring of knowledge among the disciplines, a focus on text-dependent questioning and answers, a building of complexity in the texts that are read, writing from sources, and focusing on academic vocabulary to ensure students are college and career ready.

Course Descriptions

M/J Language Arts 1 & M/J Language Arts 1 Advanced

This course defines what students should understand and be able to do by the end of 6th grade. Knowledge acquisition should be the primary purpose of any reading approach as the systematic building of a wide range of knowledge across domains is a prerequisite to higher literacy. At this grade level, students are building their facility with rhetoric, the craft of using language in writing and speaking, using classic literature, essays, and speeches as mentor texts. To build mastery, students will continue to review and apply earlier grade-level benchmarks and expectations. 


M/J Language Arts 2 & M/J Language Arts 2 Advanced

This course defines what students should understand and be able to do by the end of 7th grade. Knowledge acquisition should be the primary purpose of any reading approach as the systematic building of a wide range of knowledge across domains is a prerequisite to higher literacy. At this grade level, students are building their facility with rhetoric, the craft of using language in writing and speaking, using classic literature, essays, and speeches as mentor texts.  


M/J Language Arts 3 & M/J Language Arts 3 Advanced

This course defines what students should understand and be able to do by the end of 8th grade. Knowledge acquisition should be the primary purpose of any reading approach as the systematic building of a wide range of knowledge across domains is a prerequisite to higher literacy. At this grade level, students are building their facility with rhetoric, the craft of using language in writing and speaking, using classic literature, essays, and speeches as mentor texts.  

 

English Language Arts & Reading Curriculum

English Language Arts: SAVVAS MyPerspectives (Pearson); IXL online program

Intensive Reading:  Read180