136 English Foundations 9 CP / 151 English Foundations 10 CP
Gr 9 & 10 | 6 Credits Year-Long | 5x per Cycle | *Eligible by Recommendation Only*
Course 136 and 151 are combined courses designed for ninth and tenth-grade students who will benefit from an instructional focus on foundational reading skills, language processing, or expressive language production, in either oral or written form. The course is co-taught by members of the Special Education and English departments. The program provides texts that are matched to students’ reading levels. Additionally, intensive skill work will focus on grammar, sentence structure, and revision strategies.
Essential Skills:
Reading
With teacher support, students will be able to make logical inferences from a text about characters, relationships, themes, while supporting those ideas with concrete details.
With teacher support, students will be able to demonstrate consistent use of reading strategies such as visualization and comprehension monitoring
Writing
Students will be able to select evidence to support teacher generated topic sentences and/or thesis statements.
Students will be able to incorporate and cite evidence from a prescribed list of quotes and plot details
With teacher support and modeling, students will be able to write clearly, directly, and specifically for a variety of purposes and audiences
With scaffolds, students will begin to be able to identify and correct errors with commas, comma splices, run-ons (fused sentence), and fragments.
With teacher scaffolding, students will be able to use sentence combining strategies to write clear sentences for a variety of purposes.
Speaking & Listening
Students will develop listening comprehension skills through read alouds, teacher led discussions, and multimedia resources
With teacher guidance, students will be able to contribute to classroom conversation by listening to and responding to teacher generated questions.