Literacy Curriculum

Purposeful

Rigorous curriculum

• Aligns with the Connecticut Core Standards
• Focuses on the essential components of reading instruction: fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension
• Includes core novels and texts, essential questions, enduring understandings, required writing tasks, and performance tasks
• Connects to science and social studies concepts
• Provides culturally relevant materials in order to optimize learning for students
• Anchors to grade level benchmarks

Meaningful

Real-world applications

• Rich, engaging, literacy-centered experiences in order to acquire the necessary skills and strategies needed to become life-long readers
• Metacognitive reading strategies including questioning of the text and author; monitoring comprehension, synthesizing information across multiple sources, literary analysis, and inferring
• Student-centered and delivered through a workshop model that responds to student needs and employs scientifically research-based instructional strategies

Supportive

Encourage to learn and grow

• Differentiates through multiple methods for teaching reading and writing
• Advocates for the needs of all our language learners
• Provides a menu of interventions and a variety of need-based small group instructional strategies  

Measurable

Demonstrate growth and mastery

• Measures learning through both formative and summative assessments
• Tracks individual growth goals
• Selects appropriate reading strategies to meet those goals