Language Arts/English Curriculum Frameworks - Albemarle County ...

• Direct instruction in skills, teacher coaching in how to use those skills in appropriate materials, and
independent practice in using those skills must occur for all students.
• Reading instruction will be a mixture of opportunities to read both in small group with a common
book and independently with a student-selected book.
• Lesson plans for language arts must reflect instructional activities in fluency,
comprehension/vocabulary development, writing, and word study. As grade level teams,
intervention committees, principals and teachers, etc. come together to discuss instruction and
student progress, evidence of instruction in these areas in lesson plans is expected.
• Teachers will be familiar with the benchmarks. They will be able to identify students who are at risk
of not meeting the benchmarks and will seek instructional support for those students.
• Teachers will use ongoing assessments (formative assessment) documenting student instructional
levels in order to ensure students are in the appropriate literacy group.
• Multiple assessments will form a body of evidence concerning student achievement level.
Instructional and placement decisions will not be made based on a single assessment.
© ASPIRE K-12, Albemarle County Public Schools, 2003
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