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English Language Arts
English Language Arts is at the heart of curriculum and instruction. The English Language Arts Department works diligently to identify career and college skills, content, and strategies to best prepare our students for their educational experience in Grades K-12. Our Language Arts Program is comprehensive and follows a balanced literacy approach. Our students have the opportunity to develop reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills, so they become independent lifelong learners. Language Arts combines curriculum, instruction, and assessment to produce desired results and outcomes. Knowledge, skills, and strategies are embedded in our curriculum guides and units of study to encourage our students to be creative as well as critical thinkers.
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Reading and Writing Instructional Materials
The information below provides a brief overview of the instructional materials used in English Language Arts and the grade levels at which they are offered. For additional information on the various resources, please click on the links provided.
Grades K - 4
Benchmark Phonics is a structured literacy program focused on building phonological awareness, decoding, encoding and fluency skills. This resource is used daily in grades K-2. For more information, please click on the link above.
Benchmark Assessment System (K-4)
Benchmark Assessment System (BAS), provides resources for teachers "to determine student’s independent and instructional reading levels" and "to observe student reading behaviors one-on-one, engage in comprehension conversations that go beyond retelling, and make informed decisions that connect assessment to instruction." This resource is used in grades K-4 three times per year. For more information, please click on the link above.
Writers Workshop is our district writing program offered by Teachers College, Columbia University. In this program, students learn to write in various genres and incorporate associated skills throughout their writing. Teachers implement this instruction daily in a workshop model in grades K-8. For more information, please click on the link above.
Benchmark Education Reading Workshop ( K-4)
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This reading program provides a clear and consistent framework for developing proficient readers. Students learn to transfer their skills to new texts through modeling, guided practice, and application. The program's integrated approach, linking whole-group and small-group lessons, ensures a seamless and practical learning journey.
Sonday/Let's Play Learn System (K-4)
The Sonday System is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy that is available to students with disabilities daily educated in an In-Class Resource program in grades K-4. The Sonday System is also implemented for general education students receiving Leveled Literacy Instruction in grades K-2. For more information, please click on the link above.
Grades 5 - 8
Middle School Readers & Writers Workshop
Readers and Writers Workshop (5-8)
Readers and Writers Workshops promotes a love of reading and writing. The programs' instructional format is a workshop model, where students interact with text at high levels and produce writing in various genres throughout the year. The programs are used in grades 5 through 8. For more information, please click on the links above.
Grades 9 - 12
SAVVAS myPerspectives
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myPerspective English Language Arts for grades 9-12 is a research-based, comprehensive literacy resource that helps build stronger readers and writers. Students read and annotate relevant and diverse texts multiple times and have thought-provoking discussions with their peers about what they read. Each unit provides purposeful activities that foster students' ownership of learning and reflect real-world scenarios. SAVVAS Realize provides teachers and students with digital access to all texts, activities and assessments as well as a digital library of media to enhance students' learning.
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PERTH AMBOY LIBRARY RESOURCES
Please check the Perth Amboy Public Library! The application for a library card is below.
Perth Amboy Public Library Children's Application
Students and teachers also have access to a digital library of books on Sora by OneDrive!
https://soraapp.com/library/papsnj
