COURSE TITLE:
Accelerating Literacy Skills
PREREQUISITE:
This is an elective course for 7th grade students only.
DESCRIPTION:
This class is an interactive workshop with a focus on reading and
writing across the content areas. Students will improve their
communication and comprehension skills in reading, writing,
speaking, listening, and viewing media. Instruction is
differentiated for each student’s needs.
The classroom atmosphere is an informal, comfortable setting
where students feel safe to explore and improve their literacy
skills. The emphasis is on generating excitement to read and write
by using high interest, student choice materials. Grading is based
individual student growth. This class is not intended as a resource
class or curriculum support for language arts but as an interactive
workshop designed to increase reading and writing competence.
MAIN TOPICS:
Students read various texts, mostly self-selected, in order to
increase reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary
knowledge. Students write in various modes in order to improve
skills in organization, elaboration, sentence variety, word choice,
and usage/mechanics. Writing and speaking to learn are
emphasized as methods of improving comprehension and
exhibiting content/skill mastery.
CREDIT INFO:
N/A