English Language Arts

 

Display persistence with challenging tasks, particularly when providing textual evidence to support answers and responses, both orally and in writing.

Persevere in analytical thinking and tasks in the face of initial difficulty.

Demonstrate progress toward independence in reading and writing.

Demonstrate use of language conventions and activating such strategies needed to read and write with grade-level fluency and skill.

Spends the majority of class reading and analyzing text.

 

 

 

Keep all students persevering with challenging tasks that require students to use evidence from the text to demonstrate understanding and to support their ideas about the text through both written and oral responses.  Expects evidence from students and probes students’ answers accordingly.

Encourage analytical thinking by posing challenging questions and tasks that offer opportunities for productive struggle with regard to reading and writing.

Demonstrate awareness and appropriate action regarding the variations present in student progress toward reading independently.

Explicitly attend to strengthening students’ language and reading foundational skills while the majority of the lesson is spent reading, writing, or speaking about text(s), moving from comprehension to analysis.

Ensure that the text(s) are at or above the complexity level expected for that particular grade.