ELA Overview

Goals for Literacy:

• Determining central idea

• Citing textual evidence

• Drawing inferences from the text

• Analyzing author’s perspective

• Writing short literary analysis responses to texts

• Literary elements: theme, character analysis, plot, setting, foreshadowing, etc.

• Promote the inner joy that comes with reading

Goals for Written Expressions:

• Improve writing fluency and written organizational skills

• Using dialogue & description to develop characters

• Including reliable evidence to support a thesis

• Writing & supporting arguments with logical reasoning & valid evidence

• Citing sources correctly to avoid plagiarism

• Synthesizing research data to create a research project

• Applying various rules of grammar

Goals for Speaking/Listening:

• Making eye contact

• Speaking at an appropriate volume

• Pronouncing words correctly, clearly, and reading phrases fluently

• Agreeing or respectfully disagreeing with ideas presented

• During a discussion, stating well supported ideas