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Literacy Support 7-8 classes are designed for students who could benefit from additional literacy support in order to read and write at grade level. Students in grade 7 and 8 receive core instruction in Language Arts from the Language Arts teacher on their grade level team and in addition, may take Literacy Support in place of Foreign Language. The focus of this course is to provide students with explicit, direct instruction in reading fluency, vocabulary development and comprehension strategies. Direct instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics is provided as needed. Students' strengths and weaknesses are addressed through whole group and small group guided reading instruction. Emphasis is placed on understanding text structure, building background knowledge, making relevant connections to text, asking questions, inferring, summarizing, and synthesizing through independent reading, reflective journaling, written summaries and open response questions.  Materials include high interest, leveled fiction and non-fiction text from the Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System as well as content based, high interest magazines.

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