English Language Arts and Reading 6 is a TEKS-based course designed to increase and refine students’ foundational literacy skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking. The course focuses on the interconnected nature of literacy through daily academic conversations, writing, and reading and includes cross-curricular and college/career literacy. Students build on prior knowledge and skills to read increasingly complex texts, both self-selected and teacher-selected, and build understandings of challenging vocabulary and author’s craft. Students continue to hone composition and research skills through recursive writing practices in multiple genres. Students build communication skills through informal and formal speaking activities.
