ELA instruction is broken up into 5 different components: Reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. ELA instruction is broken up into to groups k-5 and 6-12. In grades 6-12 ELA is covered in two different content areas. The first is the ELA teacher and the second is either the history teacher, science teacher, or technical subject teacher. In each component there are main goals that need to be met.
Reading- Comprehension and the application of the comprehension to the real world and what they are learning.
Writing- Understand comprehension through written or oral communication. Ability to plan, revise, and edit writing. Write about evidence from informational text- explain what they learned from the text.
Speaking and Listening- Develop skills for formal presentation, oral communication and interpersonal skills. Collaborative learning to produce story telling projects, podcasts, movie editing tools, etc to communicate what they understood from their reading.
Language- Use of tools to enhance students vocabulary such as e-books.
When teachers try to incorporate each of these components into their lessons it will help the students have a better understanding of what they are learning. It will also help them develop the skills they need to be successful in not only ELA but in all of their subjects.
Well said. We need to help develop students' strategic use of social media and technology to work collaboratively on projects. That being said, teachers need to model these practices in classrooms to start with. :)
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