Reading & Writing 7 ELD

Course #:  15071042
Credit Type:  English
Credit:  Full Year
College Credit:  No
Grade Level:  07
Description:  This Language Arts course is designed for multilinguals still developing their English language proficiency.  It builds upon a students’ prior knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, word usage, and the mechanics of writing, and includes the four aspects of language use:  reading, writing, speaking, and listening.  This course emphasizes the use of language for different effects, in different contexts, and for different purposes.  Students can expect to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction including novels, short stories, dramas, poetry, and essays.  This course provides an integrated balance of reading narrative and information texts, along with writing tasks appropriate to grade level 7.  Students will become proficient at gathering information, evaluation sources, and citing material accurately, reporting findings from their research and analysis of sources in a clear manner.  To be college and career ready writers, students must take task, purpose, and audience into careful consideration, choosing words, information, structures, and formats deliberately.  Through an integrated approach, skills and strategies will be developed and applied through the Kansas College and Career Readiness Standards.  This course must be taught by an ESOL endorsed teacher in order to provide appropriate scaffolds for the language development while meeting grade-level standards