ELA Parent Guides: These grade level guides contain information to support parents with understanding the 2017 ELA NCSCOS. Each guide (K-12) contains an introduction to the standards, a scope of expectations for that particular grade, reading and writing strategies, and resources for learning outside of school.  The purpose of these guides is to inform parents about the ELA standards as well as provide useful strategies to incorporate at home.

In order to provide continuing support for North Carolina’s youngest readers, The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning has developed and released “Literacy at Home.” This digital resource provides literacy activities at each grade level, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Families and communities may access this resource for activities that specifically target the literacy skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and oral language. When children grow in each of these foundational areas they are well on their way to becoming proficient readers.