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ELA (English Language Arts) is a combination of reading and writing skills.

The course content for ILA:

• Reading and describing characteistics of various reading materials including: fiction, such as novels and short stories, nonfiction, such as new articles, editorials, advertisements, and poetry
• Writing frequently in a variety of forms, developing language skills in vocabulary, sentence variety, grammar and mechanics, and comprehension stragies such as summarizing, note taking, comparing/contrasting, and persuading  
• Developing skills in speaking, listening, and media literacy

Grading:

Classroom Assessments: 60%

Classroom Assignments: 20%

Vocabulary: 10%

District Writing Assessment: 10%--5% Writing, and 5% Reading

Last spring, I, along with my husband worked on Educational Action Research Projects.  My projcect was to examine whether graphic text such as Comic Books, Graphic Novels, or Comic Strips improve reading comprehension.  My husband, Kent, completed his on whether students respond and improve test scores when using an interactive white board. The results of these Action Research Projects can be found here.  The full documents are provided in my Documents to Download Page.