Understanding ELA instruction.

English Language Arts instruction: 

The main goal of instructing students in ELA is to combine reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language to help students not only comprehend text, but also explain what they have read in a manner that makes sense. Although all aspects of ELA work together, they are broken up into four smaller groups:

• 1  Reading- This portion of ELA focuses on student comprehension and application of that information to the real world. Students need to be able to make sense of what they have read and apply it to their daily lives. As students get older, the complexity of texts increases and students are expected to be able to make connections between the different texts they have read.
• 2.    Writing- The writing stage of ELA focuses on student ability plan, revise, edit and publish a piece of writing. The goal of this step is for students to make a reading to writing connection. Using the evidence, they have gathered from literary and informational texts, and conducting other research, should help students fine tune their writing skills to express the information they have found.
• 3.    Speaking and Listening- In this part of ELA instruction, students collaborate and communicate information they gather from multi-media sources. Students must take this information, evaluate what they hear, and present their findings to their teacher and peers. Students and educators work together using different tools to present and communicate what they have learned from their reading.
• 4.    Language- The language portion of ELA focus on the standard conventions of English and works to enhance student’s vocabulary.