Sierra Expeditionary 4th and 5th grade classrooms are the perfect setting for the introduction and exploration of the exquisite stories that reside within classic literature novels. The Newbery Award winning texts are meant to inspire and create a world of wonder for students so that they may see, touch, hear

Newsela is a free online news site and app that provides students with high interest, differentiated, leveled versions of actual news articles and follow-up questions in a quiz form. Newsela PRO allows teachers to track individual student progress, as well as additional support in the form of annotations and written

Raz Kids: A leveled reading program with comprehension questions and assessments. There are nonfiction and fiction benchmark assessment passages for each reading level. The online running record feature includes a recorded retelling capability and interactive quizzes. This is a self-paced, motivational reading program with hundreds of leveled books. Students can

Building on Sierra High School’s commitment to literacy, the Literature Circles are a culminating yearly event where students demonstrate their autonomous learning and developing literacy skills. As a final project in the English classes, students choose novels of their own, set a reading pace with their peer group, conducted weekly

For children in primary grades, whatever literature a teacher presents is often the students' main exposure to both books and the greater world around them. For this reason, educators should consider the implications of the fact that while more than half of the children enrolled in U.S. public schools are

Sierra High School is involved in an ongoing commitment to build student literacy. To reach those means, the staff at Sierra High School regularly collaborate on how to implement literacy across the curriculum. Staff actively engages in professional development that supports the development of discipline based literacy skills and practice

Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, manipulate the sounds, blend and segment the sounds into spoken and written words. Phonemic awareness is an auditory training process. It

Last year, Kings Beach Elementary was awarded a grant for Palabras a Su Paso, a Spanish spelling program for students in grades K-4. This grant was very well received and currently we lack a similar English component for grades 2-4. Thus, Words their Way would help Kings Beach Elementary strategize

Time For Kids is a magazine subscription that provides students with information on current events and timely discussions. TIME, the trusted name in journalism, offers authentic journalism tailored for students. TIME for Kids supports standards-based daily instruction while inspiring students to join the national discourse on current topics. The articles

This app allows students who are logged into Google Chrome with their student email accounts and working in Google Docs the ability to do the following: Listen to the text read aloud Use the built in regular dictionary and picture dictionary Voice type into the Google Doc Use word prediction