The K-5 English language arts curriculum is aligned to the New Jersey Student Learning Standards for English Language Arts.  As such, the Curriculum establishes a “staircase” of increasing complexity in what students are expected to read and compose. The key components of a balanced literacy program are delivered through a workshop framework. Instruction is aimed at concurrently building student capacity in the acquisition and application of foundational reading skills, developing comprehension across a wide range of literary and informational texts, crafting written and spoken outputs of thinking, productively engaging in collaborative discussions, and developing dexterity in appropriately utilizing the conventions of standard English.