Strategic Reading and Writing I (ESOL)

Course Number: 1053

Required Prerequisite: LPAC Approval

Course Information

  • Grade Level Recommendation: LPAC Approval
  • Credit: 1
  • This course is intended to offer EB students instruction in comprehension strategies, word recognition, vocabulary development, and fluency. Students are given the opportunity to read critically, support inferences, evaluate resources, respond to text in writing, and do research in a variety of genres.
  • Writer’s workshop works in conjunction with reader’s workshop to advance the linguistic and academic progression of EBs. Reading strategies are applied to instructional-level and independent-level texts that cross the content areas. Students learn how various texts are organized and how authors choose language for effect.
  • Content-Based Language Instruction is applied to address the varying linguistic levels of Emergent Bilinguals.