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division of academic services
reading and language arts
Our mission
As
a Pre K – 12 Reading and Language Arts program, our
mission is to produce literate primary, intermediate,
middle, and high school students whose lives are
enriched by their ability to read, write and speak
eloquently, both in school and in the world at large.
To provide additional clarity regarding what constitutes
effective literacy instruction, the
DCPS Comprehensive Blueprint for Literacy
identifies what is recommended in daily practice for
reading and writing instruction at each grade level.
Curriculum
Aligned with the currently adopted state standards and
research-based best-practices, our curriculum employs
explicit, intentional and differentiated instruction
centered on the needs of all students. In alignment with
our district-wide managed instructional system, our
learning schedules provide current curricular coherence
by articulating detailed practices that must be
implemented in grade levels and classrooms across the
district.
In an effort to
accelerate and sustain all learners' proficiency in
reading/language arts classes, seven principles are
being used to guide the district's work and address the
complexity of the content and context of language arts
instruction. These principles will direct the purpose,
design, delivery, and evaluation of instruction.
Therefore all schools:
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Will use
the adopted English language arts state standards as
the curricular platform and align curriculum,
assessment, instruction, and organization to provide
a comprehensive, coherent structure for language
arts teaching and learning;
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Will stress
the importance of a balanced, comprehensive reading
program;
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Will
emphasize that students must be fluent readers at
least by the end of third grade;
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Will target
the important skills, concepts and strategies that
students must be able to use after the third grade
and provide remedial support as necessary;
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Will
provide guidance to ensure that all educators and
learners understand that
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specific
skills in reading, writing, speaking, and
listening must be taught and learned,
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language
arts standards are related and taught in a
reciprocal processes that build on and
strengthen one another, and
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language
arts standards in reading and writing can be
learned across all academic disciplines;
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Will
promote a preventive rather than remedial approach,
as supported by the research of Shaywitz, 2003, and
Torgesen, 2001; and
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Will
address the full range of learners in all classrooms
through differentiated instructional methods.
Comprehensive Blueprint for Reading
Summer 2011
Resources
Parent Resources
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