Transitional Literacy
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Title en-US:
Transitional Literacy
Description en-US:
Transitional Literacy is a two-semester English language arts (ELA) course, designed to dramatically accelerate students' literacy skills essential for college and career readiness. In Transitional Literacy, students receive instruction in reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language, emphasizing literary and informational texts from diverse genres in print and digital formats. The texts selected for the course must be within the Grade 11-12 text complexity band and increase in complexity over time. The course closely examines unique characteristics of texts from each discipline and emphasizes the specific strategies needed to comprehend them. The course focuses on developing the requisite literacy skills for success in higher education and the workforce by incorporating texts from ELA, history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. The texts will also be used as models for student writing products, emphasizing both informative and argumentative types.
Publication Status:
Published Subject:
English
Education Level:
11, 12
Language:
English
Date Valid:
2015
Repository Date:
2015-08-28
Author en-US:
Arizona Department of Education
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