Language Arts Group Focus:

1) Follow North Carolina Standard Course of Study (SCOS) and North Carolina Thinking Skills Questioning Guide (knowledge, organizing, applying, analyzing, generating, integrating, evaluating).

2) Read a variety of fiction, nonfiction, content, consumer, poetry, and drama selections.

3) Read with fluency, receive vocabulary and comprehension strategies instruction.

4) Comprehension strategies:

* Making connections

* Asking questions

* Visualizing

* Inferring and Predicting

* Determining Importance in Text

* Synthesizing

* Metacognitive Monitoring

5) Use Thinking Maps.

6) Implement Classroom Instruction That Works* strategies.

7) Implement Write From The Beginning and Empowering Writers lessons.

Math Group Focus:

1) Follow NC SCOS and 9 Weeks Pacing Guide.

2) Use Reading Comprehension Strategies for Math instruction.

3) Problem Solving/Thinking Skills

4) Use Thinking Maps.

5) Implement Classroom Instruction That Works* strategies.

* Classroom Instruction That Works ~ Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, Jane E. Pollack