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Middle School ELA Courses
Students in middle school are required to take three years of English/Language Arts. Each grade level listed below provides a link to the Maryland College and Career Readiness Standards. The English/Language Arts courses and course overview available to students in Anne Arundel County are:
English/Language Arts 6
English/Language Arts 6 is designed to accelerate student achievement in reading, writing, language, listening, and speaking. The course includes blocks of time devoted to teacher-directed lessons on reading and writing, monitored reading, vocabulary development, grammar and usage, and speaking.
English/Language Arts 7
English/Language Arts 7 is designed to continue to accelerate student achievement in reading, writing, language, listening, and speaking. The course includes blocks of time devoted to teacher-directed lessons on reading and writing, monitored reading, vocabulary development, grammar and usage, and speaking.
English/Language Arts 8
English/Language Arts 8 is centered on high-quality contemporary and classical literature, supported by skills instruction and practice in critical reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar and usage, and speaking.
Support and Encore Courses
Students will engage in discussions, writing, and presentations centered on important ideas in the world both now and through history regarding literature, art, music, and philosophy.
Wrestling with World Class Ideas (grades 6/7/8)
This course will enlarge students’ understanding of themselves as thinkers, increase their abilities to express themselves using different forms of speech. In writing, students will enhance their creative and critical thinking, and expand their abilities to collaborate and to argue for their point of view. This course is usually scheduled as an encore class.
Performance and Reading
This course offers student support in the areas of content, skills and processes of language arts. The content objectives for the class are aligned to those being taught during language arts class.
Reading Interventions (grades 6/7/8) Courses
Specific reading interventions are provided as an encore course for those students identified as needing focused and intensive reading instruction, in addition to the regularly scheduled language arts class. Students must be scheduled into two out of three A/B/C rotations (sixth and eighth grade) or one out of two A/B rotations (seventh grade). Students are placed in these programs only after testing and/or evaluation by the school’s reading personnel.
Corrective Reading B2
Corrective Reading B2 emphasizes phonemic awareness, applies discrimination skills to stories of increasing length and more complex syntax.
Corrective Reading C
Corrective Reading C addresses multisyllabic words, sound combinations, affixes, vocabulary development, and reading expository text. The focus is leading students to independent application of skills.
Read to Achieve
Read to Achieve develops comprehension and fluency for students reading below grade level.
Wilson Reading
Students enrolled in Wilson Reading will use a multi-sensory ”sound tapping” system to learn total word structure. This course addresses decoding, encoding, oral fluency, and comprehension. Instruction is provided by a teacher trained in Wilson methodology.
