ELA

English Language Arts

Reading and Writing are the single most important topics covered in school as they are an integral part of every subject area. Though I do not often assign written homework in reading and writing, these are things that students should be doing on a regular basis at home. Please refer to the download below labelled "101 Ways to Read". Students are never too old to read with someone at home. In fact, reading aloud with someone is one of the best ways to increase your child's fluency (see the download titled "Strategies to IncreaseReading Fluecy" for specific strategies). Also reading together with your child and having conversations about the text can help build comprehension skills. In the Download section below, you can also access the writing rubric that students use to assess their own writing in school & which I also use to assess them. The links to the right have reading/ELA games and activities to engage students at home.

Below is a general month by month overview of what we will be focussing on in class in ELA. This may change some as the year goes on. We encourage you to have regular conversations with your child about what they are learning in school.