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English, Language Arts, and Reading

English, Language Arts, and Reading

The English/Language Arts (ELA) team assists clients in developing and implementing a successful ELA K-12 curriculum that is research-based and aligned with state and federal mandates.

Services include:

  • Reading Academies
  • Kindergarten - Grade 2 professional development and services are available in the following areas:
    • Small group instruction
    • Literacy centers
    • Assessment/monitoring progress
    • Reading comprehension
    • Texas Primary Reading Inventory and Fluency Probe - TPRI
    • Vocabulary development
    • Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills - DIBELS
    • Word analysis
    • ELAR TEKS Training
    • Fluency development
  • Grades 3-12 professional development and services are available in the following areas:
    • STAAR reading • writing
    • STAAR writing • evaluating student performance
    • STAAR open ended response
    • Co-teaching
    • Reading comprehension
    • Struggling reader strategies
    • Content area reading
    • Struggling writer strategies
    • Small group instruction and literacy stations
    • Vocabulary development
    • Word study
    • Fluency
    • Advanced placement
    • Strategies for struggling diverse learners
    • Reading interventions
    • Texas Adolescent Literacy Academies - TALA
    • ELAR TEKS Training
    • Texas Middle School Fluency Assessment – TMSFA

ESC 5 ELAR Contacts

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Kandra Davis

Program Assistant
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Jennifer Robertson

Program Coordinator
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Adrianna Broxton

Program Coordinator, HQIM RLA

ESC 5 Reading Academy Contacts

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Sandy Stevenson

Program Assistant
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Jennifer Whitehead

Authorized Provider Manager
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Susan Cooper

Authorized Provider Manager
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Kim Adams

Cohort Leader