Reading Language Arts
Literacy Instruction OverviewClick on image to view largerWisconsin Performance Standards for English Language Arts
Click Here Reading With Your Child Your child is expected to read a minimum of 150 minutes per week. Your child will be tracking this requirement on a "bookmark." The "bookmark" will allow your child to track number of minutes read daily, the number of days to finish reading a book, and serve as a record of completed books. Although it is best to read on a daily basis, it is up to your child and you to determine HOW the minutes are broken up over the week. Students can read seven days (recommended), six days or five days a week. They can read for 20, 30, 40 minute chunks or even longer. Students should be reading for meaningful chunks of time. Reading should be enjoyable and needs to fit into your families schedule. Students should read for as long as a book "holds" them. If your child is reading a "just right" book, you may find they are reading even longer than the 150 minute minimum requirement.
There are several ways that your child can engage in reading at home. Each type develops different reading skills. Depending on your child's needs, spending one - two times per week engaging in each type of reading may help encourage their love of reading. Types of Reading
Reading and speaking about what you read at a higher level takes years of practice. You will be amazed at your child's growth if you make reading and talking about the stories a regular routine in your home. Spelling The purpose of spelling is to make sure written work can be read and understood. Students need to recognize when a word is misspelled and have a "toolbox" of strategies to enable them to spell a word correctly. We will use spelling programs that provide hands-on opportunities to manipulate word features in a way that allows students to generalize beyond isolated, individual word examples to entire groups of words that are spelled the same way. Spelling strategies will be differentiated in order to meet the indiviual needs of students.
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Components of Literacy Our Reading Language Arts program consists of a balanced approach to reading comprehension, vocabulary background, phonics, spelling, study skills, grammar, and writing development. Many of these skills will be developed during authentic reading and writing opportunities across the curriculum.
Grammar Our English program focuses on basic skills like parts of a sentence, nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc... Students will be given some background, however, we will be reinforcing these skills during reading and writing activities throughout the day. We will be creating various types of sentences to see how good writers use sentence structure and word choice to create concise colorful and interesting writing. Students may engage in some basic skill practice in isolation to reinforce basic skills.
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