Course Goals:

• Foster a love of literature
• Expose students to a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction texts
• Engage students in discussion of texts
• Teach students learn to raise questions about texts
• Teach students language conventions
• Teach students literary elements
• Foster higher order/critical thinking skills
• Teach students metacognitive strategies
• Teach students reading skills and strategies to increase comprehension
• Teach students to become fluent readers of a variety of texts