Resource Room (RR) Written Language
Course Description:
Students will work with the LANGUAGE! The curriculum is organized to teach each strand systematically, explicitly, and sequentially. The strands include phonemic concepts; phonemic awareness; phoneme-grapheme associations, syllabication; word recognition; vocabulary development; spelling; orthographic concepts; mechanics; composition; grammar and usage; syntax and sentence structure; semantic relationships; figurative language; and morphology. Each language strand is interwoven daily with the others, so that language skills are developed in relation to one another. Each language component is taught systematically, cumulatively, sequentially, and explicitly until mastery is achieved. Modeling, guided, and repeated practice is provided for each concept.
LANGUAGE ! vocabulary strategies include structural analysis, awareness of a word’s grammatical role, opportunities to use new words in sentence generation, and multiple exposures to the use of new words in context. LANGUAGE ! provides a structure for generating definitions that includes naming the category to which a concept belongs and positioning the word in relation to other words through synonyms, antonyms, analogies, and idiomatic phrases.
Length: Year