Reading and Language Arts (RLA)

Grade 8 Reading and Language Arts

Course #: 908486 (academic)

Credit: 0

This course connects what students will be reading to what they will write so that students are better able to construct and extend meaning from what they read and put that constructed meaning effectively into writing. Students will learn a strategic approach to reading comprehension. Strategies for effective reading will be organized to support readers before they read, during their reading, and after they read. Students will focus on constructing meaning from text and extending that meaning through writing. Students will meet state standards by reading for information and then writing to inform or to persuade, reading to perform a task and then writing to explain a task, and reading for literary experience and then writing for personal expression. Students will also meet state standards for language usage through direct instruction in grammar and spelling in the context of what they read and write, and reinforced through isolated skills development.