Pennridge School District Language Arts Curriculum

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Pennridge School DistrictLanguage Arts Curriculum

• K-12 Goals and Objectives

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Mission Statement

• The Pennridge Language Arts curriculum is
  designed
• To provide opportunities for all students to use
  language as communicators
• To teach students to make meaning by reading,
  writing, listening, speaking, and thinking
  through the study of literature
• Students will acquire the knowledge,
  processes, strategies, and skills necessary to
  become life-long learners, effective thinkers,
  and collaborative workers.

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Goal 1 Literature Appreciation/Content

• The students will develop an aesthetic, an
  historical, and a cultural understanding of
  literature.

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Goal 2 LanguageExpressive/Receptive

• The students will construct meaning by reading
  and listening to a variety of information and
  genres, and communicate ideas in speaking and
  writing.

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Goal 3Strategies/Skills

• The students will apply a wide variety of
  strategies and skills to read, interpret, and
  generate texts.

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Goal 4Technology and Research

• The students will use technology and language
  arts tools to conduct effective research and
  manage information.

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Goal 5Thinking

• The students will develop the thinking skills of
  analysis, creativity, and reflection which are
  necessary to interact with, comprehend, and
  enrich information for varied purposes.

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Goal 6Processes

• The students will become proficient in the
  processes of reading, writing, and researching.

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Pennridge School District Language Arts Curriculum

• The language arts are the disciplines of
  communications. Therefore, the Language Arts
  curriculum consists of developing students as
  effective communicators through reading, writing,
  speaking, listening, and thinking. This includes
  the use of literacy skills and strategies not
  only in the classroom, but as necessary
  components of a productive life.

C.M. Hauslein 2005