Assignment #1 - Short reflection on your understanding of the ELA instruction

ELA instruction to me, is a huge foundation in the building blocks of learning and understandings and strategies for reading, writing, speaking and listening across all subject areas.  It encompasses reasearch and information and the skills students need to build strong content knowledge and compose informational text.  It also includes instruction that explores the purposes, techniques and strategies to become effective readers and writers of various types of opinion text.  In the end, students need to comprehend, critique and compose literary text as outlined by the standards.