Reading & Language Arts
Faculty
Forms & Documents
Overview
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Reading
- Increase reading fluency and endurance through integrated experiences in the language arts. Incorporates reading and analysis of literary and informational selections to develop critical and close reading skills.
Language Arts
- Using texts of high complexity, advanced integrated language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness.
Content Includes:
- active reading of varied texts
- analysis of literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
- text craft and structure
- elements of literature
- arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
- power and impact of language
- writing for varied purposes, effective listening, speaking, and viewing strategies:
- developing and supporting argumentative claims
- crafting coherent, supported informative/expository texts
- responding to literature for personal and analytical purposes
- writing to sources using text-based evidence and reasoning
- collaboration amongst peers
Additionally, reading courses include:
- demonstrating successful reading of high-quality literature and recognizing:
- argument
- fact and opinion
- inferences and main ideas
- theme and tone
- organizational patterns and their relationships in the comprehension of text
- purpose and tone of informational reading
- demonstrating successful understanding of academic vocabulary in context
- integrating reading and writing
