Welcome to Basic English Language Arts

Basic ELA is designed to provide instructional support to special education students to ensure that they master the objectives stated in the student’s Individual Education Plan in the area of Reading, Writing, and Language. Students are provided the appropriate accommodations and support to allow them to reach their fullest potential. Objectives are taught with the modifications and adaptations that meet each student’s individual needs in order to be successful. As in the regular education classrooms, students master previously learned reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing skills in increasingly complex presentations, reading selections, and written compositions. Students take notes during oral presentations and summarize spoken messages. Students read widely in classic and contemporary selections and informational texts. Students use study strategies and complete research projects and reports. Students use different forms of writing and more complex grammar and usage, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization strategies to produce error-free compositions on a regular basis.