Middle Grades English Language Arts

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  • Middle School English Language Arts courses engage students in meaningful reading, writing, speaking and listening experiences that encourage critical thinking skills. Our curriculum equips children with the skills they need to succeed in middle school and beyond. In English Language Arts, this means a balancing of informational and literary text, a transferring of knowledge among the disciplines, a focus on text-dependent questioning and answers, a building of complexity in the texts that are read, writing from sources, and focusing on academic vocabulary to ensure students are college and career ready

English Language Arts & Reading Curriculum

  • English Language Arts: HMH Into Literature

    Intensive Reading:  Students are placed into either the Read 180 or System 44 curriculum based on their profile of strengths and needs as a reader.

Grade Level Expectations

  • Below is an overview of students' expectations in english language arts for each grade level. The more children learn when they are young, the better they become as adults. We want to teach your children the academic skills they will need to prepare them for their next level of learning. Healthy, successful children can excel in many areas – in the classroom, on the court, and in their relationships with peers and adults. 
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  • Grade 6

    Sixth-grade students will engage in using texts of appropriate complexity. Grade 6 English Language Arts integrates language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness.  

    Throughout the year, your child will:

    • actively read from varied texts for what is said explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
    • analyze literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
      • text craft and structure
      • elements of literature
      • arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
      • power and impact of language
      • influence of history, culture, and setting on language
      • personal critical and aesthetic response
    • write for varied purposes

    For additional information regarding the Grade 6 English Language Arts courses, please visit the course description and course directory at CPALMS.org

  • Grade 7

    Seventh-grade students will engage using texts of appropriate complexity. Grade 7 English Language Arts integrates language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness.

    Throughout the year, your child will:

    • actively read from varied texts for what is said explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
    • analyze literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
      • text craft and structure
      • elements of literature
      • arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
      • power and impact of language
      • influence of history, culture, and setting on language
      • personal critical and aesthetic response
    • write for varied purposes

    For additional information regarding the Grade 7 English Language Arts courses, please visit the course description and course directory at CPALMS.org

  • Grade 8

    Eighth-grade students will engage using texts of appropriate complexity. Grade 8 English Language Arts integrates language arts study in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language for college and career preparation and readiness.  

    Throughout the year, your child will:

    • actively read from varied texts for what is said explicitly, as well as the logical inferences that can be drawn
    • analyze literature and informational texts from varied literary periods to examine:
      • text craft and structure
      • elements of literature
      • arguments and claims supported by textual evidence
      • power and impact of language
      • influence of history, culture, and setting on language
      • personal critical and aesthetic response
    • write for varied purposes

    For additional information regarding the Grade 8 English Language Arts courses, please visit the course description and course directory at CPALMS.org

Contact Information

  • Secondary English Language Arts Department

    600 SE 3rd Ave

    Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

    Phone: 754-321-2119

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    David Shelley & Marie Garrido

    Secondary ELA Curriculum Supervisors