Focuses on the essential components of reading instruction: fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension
Includes core novels and texts, essential questions, enduring understandings, required writing tasks, and performance tasks
Connects to science and social studies concepts
Provides culturally relevant materials in order to optimize learning for students
Anchors to grade level benchmarks
Meaningful
Real-world applications
Rich, engaging, literacy-centered experiences in order to acquire the necessary skills and strategies needed to become life-long readers
Metacognitive reading strategies including questioning of the text and author; monitoring comprehension, synthesizing information across multiple sources, literary analysis, and inferring
Student-centered and delivered through a workshop model that responds to student needs and employs scientifically research-based instructional strategies
Supportive
Encourage to learn and grow
Differentiates through multiple methods for teaching reading and writing
Advocates for the needs of all our language learners
Provides a menu of interventions and a variety of need-based small group instructional strategies
Measurable
Demonstrate growth and mastery
Measures learning through both formative and summative assessments
Tracks individual growth goals
Selects appropriate reading strategies to meet those goals