EMC
School
TM
Meaningful Language Learning
Meaningful Language Arts Instruction
Provide students with the context, skills, and understanding they’ll need to function in today’s
globalized, interconnected world. Engage students with rich, diverse literary and informational
texts that create mirrors for students to see themselves and windows for students to extend
understanding. Provide 21 st century experiences that will help students build relationships and
prepare them for experiences far beyond your classroom walls.
Create a
context
• Classic and contemporary
literary and informational
texts
• Opportunities for making
comparisons and cross-
curricular connections
• 100% alignment with
Common Core State
Standards and College and
Career Readiness Standards
Practice +
assess skills
Social
Learning
• Rigorous and balanced
instruction for reading,
writing, speaking and listening,
and language skills • Collaborative Learning
activities and projects that
encourage students to build
community in the classroom
• Gradual release of
responsibility instructional
model with three levels of
reading support in each unit • Mirrors & Windows essential
questions make text-to world
connections
• Integrated Performance
Assessments and project-
based learning
• Differentiated instruction to
meet the needs of all learners
• Extension activities apply
language arts skills to real-
world tasks
21 st Century
Skills
• Enhanced learning through
Passport ® online language
arts environment
• V
ideo-based tools for
discussion, and formative
and summative assessment
• P
roject-based online
modules
• M
edia Literacy activities
extend learning online
• I nteractive videos modeling
the Close Reading Process