English Language Development (ELD) classes are designed to encourage, enhance, and extend the acquisition of the English language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing. While there are ELD state standards, the content is left open so that teachers can tailor lessons to student interests and needs. The hope of all

The Leisure Reading program is a strong component in the overall development of Sierra High School students’ literacy skills. The role of reading everyday is a major factor in students building overall academic success and the opportunity to build literacy skills daily, in an non evaluative manner, increases students skills

Building on Sierra High School’s commitment to literacy, the Literature Circles are a culminating yearly event where students demonstrate their autonomous learning and developing literacy skills. As a final project in the English classes, students choose novels of their own, set a reading pace with their peer group, conduct weekly

Building. Creating. Designing. Hands on activities. That's what happens in the STEAM Lab at North Tahoe School. However, at this time, the love of learning through reading books, seeing pictures and sketches, learning from other people's mistakes, failures, and blunders to help enhance and support key concepts is missing. STEAMing

Kindergarten is truly a magical year in the school life of a young scholar. When they enter the classroom on the first day of school, they truly are babies -- unaware of the norms and routines that guide any classroom. Over the course of the year, the transformation that they

Weekly newspapers covering Social Studies, Science and current events to enhance our literacy and knowledge of given topics. The topics all correlate to what is being taught in kindergarten.

Magazine and focused literacy subscriptions help support and enhance early literacy skills in an elementary classroom. Adding a variety of high interest reading material to a classroom library allows students the flexibility to choose additional reading material that fosters a love of reading. By subscribing to magazines, students have the

ReadNaturally is a researched based, web-based, individualized reading program that targets struggling readers. The program is designed to increase students phonics skills, vocabulary development, reading fluency and reading comprehension skills. The stories are non-fictional, increasing student engagement and motivation. Teachers are able to monitor students success on each story through

Scholastic News is a subscription to a high-interest current event periodical which is written at an appropriate reading level for second and third graders to support their Reading Informational Text standards. Each issue comes with teaching tools that support our ELA, science, social studies, and technology curriculum. Additionally there are

This grant is for a set of Discussion 4 Learning VocabulArte Levels A-D. VocabulArte provides support for all students, native speakers of Spanish and Spanish learners, to develop high-level academic vocabulary and language in Spanish through engaging discussions of fine art images and real-world photos from around the world. The