Middle School ELA

  • Middle School ELA instruction incorporates the deliberate and explicit teaching of reading skills and strategies that enable students to read with understanding. In the middle grades, students build upon their learning from the elementary grades by continuing to practice active reading strategies that allow them to self-monitor their reading. By continuing to model active reading strategies, middle-grade teachers help students become more proficient readers.

    Middle School ELA instruction also teaches skills and strategies that enable students to write effectively for any purpose and intended audience. In middle school, students focus on the following features of writing: support and elaboration, organization, style, and conventions. These focus areas expand and refine writing skills that enable our students to become strategic and independent communicators. Practicing both oral and written communication skills will also prepare our students for the challenges of the 21st century. Teaching all students to read and think critically is our goal as we prepare students to be successful in school and life.

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  • *Information adapted from ELEducation.org

    EL Education is a curriculum written by and for teachers, emphasizing active learning and student engagement. Classrooms are structured with highly collaborative activities that allow students to engage in academic conversations and investigations of compelling, real-world content. E.L. Education aims to contribute to a student's ability to be globally competitive and an active contributor to building a better world.

    • The Primacy of Self-Discovery: Students undertake tasks that require perseverance, fitness, craftsmanship, imagination, self-discipline, and significant achievement. 
    • The Having of Wonderful Ideas: E.L. Education fosters curiosity about the world by creating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to experiment, and time to make sense of what is observed.
    • The Responsibility for Learning: E.L. Education encourages children and adults to become increasingly responsible for directing their own personal and collective learning.
    • Empathy and Caring: Learning is fostered best in communities where students' and teachers' ideas are respected and mutual trust. 
    • Success and Failure: All students need to be successful to build the confidence and capacity to take risks and meet increasingly difficult challenges. But it is also important for students to learn from their failures, persevere when things are hard, and learn to turn disabilities into opportunities.
    • Collaboration and Competition: Students are encouraged to compete, not against each other, but with their own personal best and rigorous excellence standards.
    • Diversity and Inclusion: Diversity and inclusion increase the richness of ideas, creative power, problem-solving ability, and respect for others. Students investigate and value their different histories and talents and those of other communities and cultures.
    • The Natural World: Students learn to become stewards of the earth and future generations.
    • Solitude and Reflection: Students take time alone to explore their own thoughts, make their own connections, and create their own ideas. They also exchange their reflections with other students and with adults.
    • Service and Compassion: One of an E.L. Education's primary functions is to prepare students with the attitudes and skills to learn from and be of service.

    E.L. Education Family Communication

    E.L. Education Family Letters provide an overview of each module and unit.