English Language Arts and Reading Foundations is a course designed specifically for struggling readers. Specific reading and study skills, strategies, and spelling techniques will be incorporated into intervention instruction to provide scaffolded support offering students opportunities to improve their overall reading comprehension. Students will also strengthen their reading and comprehension skills across all content areas. 

• Full Year Course
• Administrator or Counselor Placement

English Learners Language Arts (ELLA) introduces and fosters the non-English speaker’s acquisition of English. Beginning EL students focus on vocabulary expansion, written and oral communication, reading comprehension and attentive listening. Intermediate EL students read a variety of genres, use and apply developmental vocabulary and reading strategies to increase comprehension and produce written text of a variety of purposes and audiences. Advanced EL students expand their academic vocabulary in order to successfully participate in content courses. Emphasis is also placed on producing written material to demonstrate mastery of the structure and mechanics of English with appropriate organization and development of ideas.

• Full Year Course
• Administrator or Counselor Placement

Accelerated Multisensory Studies is a comprehensive blended literacy course that offers instruction in a small class setting. Instructional approaches include: explicit, direct instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative; intensive, meaning-based instruction that is directed toward purposeful reading, spelling, and writing; multisensory instruction that addresses sensory pathways; and, technology-based design to maximize the development of literacy fundamentals and student engagement.

This elective course supports identified students with dyslexia and/or dysgraphia that require multisensory reading, spelling, and writing instruction. Components of instruction are described in the Dyslexia Handbook, revised 2014, by the Texas Education Agency. Teachers who provide the appropriate instruction for students with dyslexia are trained in the components as specified by 19 TAC §74.28. Course is graded Pass/Fail.

• Full Year Course
• Placement by Dyslexia Committee of Knowledgeable People, ARD, or §504 Committee