Common Core Aligned ELA Class for Middle Schoolers

This class functions as a drop in ELA course for students to build their reading comprehension skills. I also assist learners with identifying and discussing literary elements used by the author to build a central idea. As a certified ELA and Special Education teacher, I provide learners with age appropriate stories and we read aloud to improve learners' reading fluency and inflections. I will stop regularly throughout the reading to assess learners' comprehension of the material and to identify literary elements used by the author. During class, I ask learners to make inferences regarding the characters' motivations as well as make predictions using evidence from the story. Some stories will take place over the span of two classes so learners can further their understanding of the stories' central ideas and work on literary analysis paragraphs together as a class.