Sterling staff strive to enable each student to reach the highest academic achievement attainable. Active, authentic learning is the process practiced for the success of the students to understand, analyze, and apply learned information. Sterling students learn in a safe and caring environment with interesting activities and relevant content. The writing process is pre-writing, writing, editing, and publishing. Writing is encouraged across the curriculum.
Students write for a variety of manuscripts for a variety of purposes.
They produce poetry, informational reports, narrative stories, descriptive information, paragraphs, letters, journal entries, peer editing, and note taking. Computers are available to the student to generate, edit, and publish written work. Spelling Students use grade level appropriate word lists to enhance their vocabulary each week. Lists are used daily in the classroom. Weekly tests are given to assess knowledge of given words.