The ELA program is designed to help the children build reading skills through motivating and engaging literature, a thorough phonemic awareness program, while increasing the children’s reading comprehension strategies in fiction and non-fiction areas. Lessons are carefully planned so the instruction is differentiated and there is a strong emphasis on ongoing student/teacher conferences in reading and writing. Small guided reading groups are carefully crafted so each skill is prioritized based on the group with students receiving focus on the right reading skill at the right time. Lucy Calkin’s Teacher’s College Units of Study help students develop as independent readers and writers, and the Fountas and Pinnell Guided Reading program is used throughout the grades to help teachers fully differentiate each child’s reading progress.
Elementary School ELA
We use the multi-sensory handwriting instruction, Fundations, Wilson Reading Strategies, guided literacy groups and shared inquiry discussion, and targeted small group Leveled Literacy Intervention to prepare students for language and literacy comprehension and writing.
Middle School ELA
Middle School ELA is designed to expand and challenge students’ thinking about the study of language arts. The scope of ELA is wide-ranging and multifaceted. It encompasses both fiction and nonfiction, and numerous genres and subgenres within each category. Students of ELA are expected to continually challenge themselves in the discipline so that they may grow as readers and writers, and as listeners and speakers
High School Grades ELA
High School English Language Arts is a NYS Regents-based, multi-year course designed to teach students how to read, write, speak, listen, and use language effectively in a variety of content areas, by effectively sharpen literacy skills and concepts required for college and career readiness in multiple disciplines.