We are building a culture of literacy at South Anna by providing rich opportunities for our students to develop comprehensive literacy skills that will allow them to become independent and strategic readers, writers, thinkers, and communicators.
Classroom Instruction
In our classroom instruction, we learn reading, writing, vocabulary, and phonics/word study skills through whole-group mini-lessons. We learn through interactive read-alouds, in which we use authentic mentor texts to share and reinforce reading skills and behaviors. We learn through small-group, guided reading and writing, in which students look critically at a text to navigate specific features of text at a given level of text complexity. We learn through independent reading and writing time, when students engage in self-selected, independent reading, and writing related to their particular interests.
We foster a love of reading and writing through authentic literacy experiences for each student. Through classroom observations and ongoing assessments, teachers, the reading specialist, and administrators can collect information about students’ strengths and areas for growth. This information helps determine the instructional resources our students need to ensure they experience optimal growth through a variety of instructional opportunities. While our literacy instruction is based on our students’ needs, all instruction encompasses the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) and Hanover County expectations.
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At South Anna, our goal in language arts is to increase students’ passion for reading while continuing to develop independent strategic readers who can think critically when reading a text and interpret and respond orally and in written text. We foster a love of reading and writing through authentic literacy experiences for each student. Through classroom observations and ongoing assessments, teachers, reading specialists, and administrators can collect information about students’ strengths and areas of growth. This information helps to determine the instructional resources they need to ensure optimal growth through a variety of instructional opportunities. While our literacy instruction is based on students’ needs, all instruction encompasses the Virginia Standards of Learning (SOLs) and Hanover County expectations.
Mrs. Trent works with students, teachers, and families to help students achieve literacy goals and discover the joy of reading and writing. In addition to working with small groups of students, Mrs. Trent collaborates with teachers and provides resources and ongoing professional development to support and enrich literacy instruction in the classroom. While our literacy instruction is based on our students’ needs, all instruction encompasses the Virginia Standards of Learning and Hanover County expectations.
For students who need additional support with our learning objectives or need additional support, Mrs. Trent (and reading tutors) provides supplementary instruction to best meet the needs of our students.
Our reading tutors are former elementary school classroom teachers. They work alongside the literacy specialist and general education teacher to provide supplemental instruction for students, two to three days a week. The instruction may focus on a specific skill, such as decoding, spelling, fluency, or writing, or it may be a second dose of reading instruction in a small group setting.
All of South Anna’s intervention groups are flexible. Students receive intervention services as needed and may move in and out of groups according to their needs.
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