To increase all students ability to achieve at high levels by maximizing their ability to attend to instruction in all instructional areas on campus.

This program will give families home support for our dual-language program in reading and language development throughout the school year. It will increase fluency by giving students quality Spanish books to practice at home with. It will provide books for this year, but we are hoping to re-use most of

By incorporating the Shurley English supplemental program, students will have a deeper understanding of the foundations of grammar concepts. This knowledge will transfer to all other curricular areas as they incorporate their new-found skills elsewhere. Please refer to the atttached documentation for full details.

ELD students will be able to practice reading fluency by recording their voices. Students will also be able to create presentations which will be recorded (video and audio) to evaluate fluency, vocabulary and speaking skills. As per California State ELD standards, students will develop oral communication that allows for social

Establish a collection of eBooks available for TTUSD students through the libraries of Truckee High School, North Tahoe Schools and Alder Creek Middle School. Students would have access to library eBooks at any time. Ebooks could be used for research, assigned reading or free reading. Students would be able to

Expose students to different styles of poetry Teach students how to write poetry Encourage different writing styles Celebrate writing by publishing student work

Students will have tools needed for sucessful writing. The binder keeps the student organized within the writing process.

The new Common Core Standards bring an increased focus on informational texts as opposed to narrative texts. This shift complements the science focus we have already implemented at Tahoe Lake. Several science focused informational texts have been explicitly named in the Common Core Standards; we would like to add these

Continued growth in ELA is a high priority for student achievement at Tahoe Lake. The 3rd grade PLC has been using differentiated literacy centers to support targeted instruction and learning in ELA. The use of listening centers supports both reading comprehension and fluency. Having the Houghton Mifflin audio component will

In order to ensure that students are able to give their best efforts in showing what they know and are able to do, privacy partitions are often effective. The partitions create a dedicated work space for students that is free of distractions. They are easily folded and stored, creating partitions