Language Arts

Language Arts consists of reading, writing, listening and speaking. I will be implementing whole group lessons to model reading strategy use. I will also be implementing Guided Reading groups. Guided Reading is small group reading instruction where children are taught various reading strategies according to their reading level. I may also group students with different reading levels together to practice a particular reading strategy with their good-fit books.

As always, please encourage your child to read regularly each night!

Assessments that will be implemented in Language Arts include the Benchmark Assessment System (Fountas & Pinnell), writing assessments, and other formative reading and word study assessments. We also use a screening tool called FASTBridge. This online assessment tool assess students' fluency, sight word recognition, word segmentation ability and decodable word recognition.