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Literacy Advancement Academy 3,4 (1684, 1685)


Grade Range:
 10
 Prerequisites:
 None
 Course duration:
 One or two semesters
Subject area in which graduation credit will be given:
 Elective
Course Description:
 Literacy Advancement Academy 3,4 is a one- or two-semester course offering extra support for students who are below or significantly below grade level in their regular grade 10 English courses, as determined by multiple measures, including standardized and classroom-imbedded assessments and teacher and principal recommendations. It is taught in addition to, not instead of, a student’s regular English course.

This course is intended to help students achieve grade-level English language arts standards by providing them with additional opportunities to learn reading and writing strategies and to apply those strategies in a variety of authentic ways.

The instruction in this course supports the standards-based units of study the students complete in their English 3,4 course. The course further reinforces and develops students’ abilities to comprehend with increased sophistication a variety of texts. It also provides explicit instruction in strategies for success in high school content-area reading and writing. Students analyze increasingly complex literature and informational texts, with and increasing rate of independence. They also further develop their abilities to write (and revise and publish) in a variety of genres.

State Course Code(s):
 9103 - English Support
Basic Texts and Teaching Guides:
 Literature, Grade 10, McDougal Littell, 2009.
Bridges to Literature, Levels 1–3, McDougal Littell, 2002.