The Morris Plains Language Arts Literacy Curriculum is designed to support students in acquiring essential 21st century literacy skills, including listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing. In addition to addressing the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, the curriculum integrates best-practices in literacy instruction, brain-based learning, multiple intelligence theory, and differentiated instruction.
With effective literacy skills as the foundation for all successful educational experiences, it is critical that students view themselves as confident readers and writers. The curriculum provides opportunities at each grade level for students to develop and build upon their skills and their craft while engaging in meaningful, collaborative, and diverse literacy experiences.
Students express their creativity and imagination while developing strong problem-solving and communication skills. Precision and organization of language, both written and spoken, are modeled with high-quality literature and are practiced at a level which both challenges students and supports them in raising their achievement.
The curriculum provides literacy experiences which are authentic and challenge students to become consumers and users of literature in meaningful ways. While acquiring knowledge, students make personal connections across the curriculum and throughout the world around them, through culturally aware and globally relevant experiences.