SUMMARY OF TUTORIALS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS CLASSES

Individual or small group tutorials are one of three English Language Arts classes that every Carroll student receives daily.

The following is a description of the three daily English Language Arts classes:

• One of the classes is a structured Orton-Gillingham (O-G) classroom lesson teaching skills and strategies for reading, vocabulary development, and comprehension;
• The second class is focused on oral and written expression, often through the use of high interest (phonetically controlled) novels and short stories;
• The third English Language Arts class is a Language Focus Area (LFA) that is usually an
  O-G tutorial (small group or individual) in the Lower School. As students develop their decoding skills, they move into small groups directed at advanced O-G, RAVE-O classes (a combination of fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension for Lower School students), and small group fluency classes;
• In the Middle School, Language Focus Area (LFA) classes include fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and revision skills.