Understanding the ELA Instruction

English Language Arts Instruction:

My understanding about ELA instruction is that as educators we reach beyond teaching students material but to help them build skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. With the proper ELA instruction students will develop better comprehension and application goals to help them surpass educational barriers coming to them.

Reading- The importance of reading in ELA is to help students not just know the information but also actually comprehend and apply the information with absolute mastery. Students need to be able to read and decode words in order to use in school and outside into their personal lives. Having students comprehend the material and create connections will help students advance

Writing- With reading comes writing another ELA focus in which students need to plan out their connections on paper about what they understood. With written communication the goal is to build writing skills such as the ability to plan, revise, edit, and publish. Other more specific skills of writing include the argument, informative/explanatory, and narrative.  The goal of writing is to have students build evidence through written communication and enhance their literacy.

Speaking & Listening- The third ELA focus that follows is speaking & listening that allow students to develop a wide range of oral communication and interpersonal skills. This will help students work together in ideas and integrate information through media resources and express through orally or visual the information they learned.

Language- The last ELA focus is the language standard, which centers itself on enhancing vocabulary and having students be able to give effective use of understand the rules of English.