Literature is selected based on thematic units of study, genre, or specific author focus.
Comprehension skills are taught as students identify main idea and details, state cause and effect relationships, and formulate inferences. The Middle School Library is a valuable tool that enhances our program and students visit the library weekly where they are provided an instructional lesson and browse for independent reading selections Writing Students learn to write complete sentences using a subject and predicate. They then write formal paragraphs, incorporating an opening statement, a body of detail, and a closing statement. Writing as a process is stressed and the students move through brainstorming, prewriting, revising, editing and proofreading, teacher conferencing and publishing. Styles of writing that are taught include Journals, Letters, Narratives, How-To, Poems, Summary, Observation and Outline.