Literacy

Middle Division students attend two literacy classes each day: Language Arts and Orton Gillingham (OG) classes. 

Language Arts

Language Arts, using a knowledge-based curriculum, exposes students to grade-level skills and content based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence. Students read literary and informational text selections using high-interest novels to enhance reading fluency and comprehension. Students benefit from a guided writing process; this sequential approach allows students to move from writing well-developed sentences to paragraphs to multi-paragraph responses.

Orton-Gillingham

The Orton-Gillingham class, sometimes referred to as Language Development, is designed to be more remedial in nature and targets areas of language weakness. This 70-minute class provides structured, sequential instruction in encoding/decoding, writing at the sentence level, spelling accuracy, and reading fluency. As students progress, the focus on instruction shifts from phonology to focus more on morphology and vocabulary comprehension. Lower student-teacher ratios allow for more targeted instruction.