ELA Overview

Within the classroom, the ELA teachers are learning and working with students to incorporate iportant reading skills. This just means for a half hour each day (sometimes more; sometimes less) we pull students to a small group to read together on an appropriate level text to build reading skills. We focus on the NEED in the group.  During whole group, we are using read aloud as the basis along with shared reading, interactive edit, and word study to build skills and comprehension. Writing stems from each piece.  Students should be using what they learn and apply it to their SSR/ chapter book.  

• Read Aloud is the first component. The teacher reads high quality literature and the children are taught the new Common Core standards through rich conversations and analysis of author’s craft.
  
  

• Shared Reading helps children decode and understand grade level text with the support of the teacher in a whole group setting. There may also be a Word Study/Language Arts piece that aligns with the Common Core standards
  
  

• Reading: Children are not memorizing stories, they are using reading strategies on a new piece of text every time they read. Building on previous years of reading standards, students will learn and grow to become the best readers they can be.  
  
  

• Reading Progress is monitored through comprehension questions that go beyond literal meaning of the story. The child’s reading behaviors are also monitored through recording what the child is reading (Reading Records) and analyzing what he/she needs to become a better reader.
  
  

• Independent Reading is also a critical piece of reading. Your child will learn to read different genre, track their reading (in upper grades) and write about what they have read. This is also an important part of the new standards for reading in Ohio. 

• My View/ SAAVAS is a district initiative reading program implented last year and will continue this year. Based on the Science of Reading, My View will be used to compliment the Ohio Content Standards to guide instruction in the classroom. I use the text to supplement for stories the entire classroom can read together to learn and reinforce skills.