ELA

Blanchard Memorial School employs a balanced literacy approach to reading and writing. Students engage in all domains of literacy: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Teachers use a range of instructional strategies to instill a lifelong love of reading and writing, which include: guided reading groups, individual goal setting and conferences, reader's theatre, book clubs, phonics instruction, and word study.

Instructional resources utilized include:

- Handwriting Without Tears/Learning Without Tears

- Fundations

- Lucy Calkins’ Units of Study

- Jennifer Seravallo’s Reading and Writing Strategies

- Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD)

- Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Interventions (LLI)

- Houghton-Mifflin Reading

Sample Units of Study

Grade	Reading	Writing
3	Building a Reading Life Mystery Reading to Learn: Main ideas and text structures Character Studies Research Clubs Social Issue Book Clubs	Narrative Informational Opinion Test Preparation Adapting and writing fairy tales
4	Coming Soon!
5	Interpretation Book Clubs: Analyzing Themes Nonfiction Author Study Researching Debatable Issues Fantasy Book Clubs	Narrative Informational Opinion Literary Essays Research-based Argument Research Reports Memoir
6	Reading Strategies Memoir/Biography Poetry Realistic Fiction Nonfiction/Current Events Historical Fiction Greek Mythology Dystopian Literature	Open Response Writing Informational Poetry Narrative Greek Myths Argument Writing

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