Literacy & Language Arts
Core Beliefs
All students can engage in rigorous and relevant grade-level work through the use of high-quality curricular materials.
All students must have access to grade-level content with appropriate scaffolds and support to meet or exceed standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening.
All students can engage in affirming and meaningful instruction that honors students’ ethnic, racial, and linguistic identities to foster student advocacy.
All students and staff must engage in active listening, respectful discussion, and celebrate productive struggle as part of learning, which will create safe and supportive classroom environments.
Tier 1 Curricular Expectations
Consistent implementation of high-quality instructional materials is the first step toward ensuring every student's success. It is expected that schools and classrooms use the following materials as the foundations of classroom instruction:
Grades K-5:
The comprehensive prioritized standards-based curriculum using the Board adopted literacy program myView/miVisión through the Literacy and ELA curriculum library.
Grades 6-8:
Comprehensive prioritized standards-based curriculum accessible through the Literacy and ELA curriculum library.
Grades 9-12:
Comprehensive prioritized standards-based curriculum accessible through the Literacy and ELA curriculum library.
All other high school courses: Comprehensive district-based curriculum accessible through theLiteracy and ELA curriculum library.
Core Instructional Actions
The Core Instructional Actions below are high-leverage, research-based strategies that will support student achievement in this discipline. This is not an exhaustive list, but a prioritized one - they are actions and strategies we expect teachers to implement in class with students.
Core Student Practices
The Core Student Practices identified below delineate the most important disciplinary practices in which we believe students should be engaged. They are actions, practices, and types of thinking that we should see evidence of students doing in class on a regular basis.