Extra Literacy Support Electives

ENG 1LR – Bridge English

This course provides foundational literacy and communication skills to prepare students for success in their daily lives and in the Gr.9 De-streamed English. This course is organized by strands that develop listening and talking skills, reading and viewing skills, and writing skills. In all strands, the focus is on developing foundational literacy skills and in using language clearly and accurately in a variety of authentic contexts. Students develop strategies and put into practice the processes involved in talking, listening, reading, viewing, writing, and thinking, and reflect upon their growth in these areas.

ELS 2O0- LLI (Leveled Literacy Intervention System)

LLI is an intensive, small-group, supplementary literacy intervention for students who find reading and writing difficult. The goal of LLI is to lift the literacy achievement of students who are not achieving grade-level expectations in reading. The LLI systems are designed to:

• Advance the literacy learning of students not meeting grade-level expectations in reading

• Deepen and expand comprehension with close reading

• Elevate the expertise of teachers

• Increase reading volume by engaging students in large amounts of successful daily reading

• Increase student engagement with books that build knowledge

• Intervene with small groups of struggling readers to maximize growth

• Meet the needs of struggling readers

• Monitor student progress.

*This course is only available to students at the discretion of the principal, and with recommendation from the Grade 8 and/or SSI teacher.

Empower

• Balanced and flexible teaching approaches and methodologies (staff specially trained by Sick Kids)
• Explicit teaching of skills and knowledge needed for decoding and comprehension of different types of text
• Delivery of instruction at different paces to meet individual student and group needs
• A ‘self-talk’ dialogue and an organizational structure that support students to become independent readers
• Modelling by the teacher of how students can become an expert reader
• Many activities to practice and solidify the skills and strategies being taught
• Retraining of unproductive attitudes and beliefs about success and failure.

*This course is only available to students at the discretion of the principal, and with recommendation through an I.P.R.C. process.