What We Offer

The Reading and Language Arts Program provides technical assistance, leadership, planning, and professional development for school-wide, standards-based reading and language arts programs in order to accelerate student achievement. Services can be based on individual district and school needs.

Services include:

• Support to administrators in leading and monitoring standards-based curriculum development and classroom implementation.
• Improve teacher expertise in content and pedagogy to help all students meet standards through differentiation.
• Meet the needs of English Language Learners within the core program.
• Facilitate the selection and implementation of State Board approved literacy and intervention programs.
• Support the assessment and analysis of student learning and program evaluation.
• Train teachers in the availability and use of diagnostic assessment tools and analysis.
• Aid in the development of tiered intervention systems.
• Work with grade level teams to develop collaborative model of analyzing student evidence and adjusting instruction based upon student results.
• Customized training in literacy is available.

Who We Serve

Site administrators, classroom teachers, and resource teachers

Professional Development

The program offers professional development to educators (teachers, instructional aides and administrators) in literacy development strategies for a range of students (from those who struggle to acquire skills due to language or learning problems to students who need to be challenged). Areas of literacy addressed include: phonemic awareness, phonics, comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and writing development.

Resources

California Department of Education Links:

• Frameworks
• SBE adopted materials
• IMAP findings
• Standards Maps for 9th-12th grade
• Recommended Literature

Publisher Links 

• Houghton Mifflin
  
• Harcourt
  
• Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
  
• Holt McDougal
  
• Pearson
  
• Holt McDougal
  
• SRA
  
• National Geographic/Hampton Brown
  
• Scholastic
• Sopris West
  
• Steck-Vaughn
  
• Heinle/Cengage Learning
  

Other Links

• MCOE Writing Anchor Paper Project
• Language Arts Wiki
• Oral Language and Interactive Strategies
• Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
• NCTE Day on Writing
• Read-Write-Think
  
• ELA Program Analysis
• Inside Level A & Inside Level B (Developed by Catherine Thompson)
• Steps for Planning Focus Lessons
• Reading/Language Arts Schedule

Contact Us
Cathy Cranson
Coordinator/Administrator
Phone: 831.784.4155

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