Grade 9-11. Year-long. Placement required.

This course counts toward graduation as general electives, but NOT as fulfillment of the four-year English graduation requirement.

Literacy Strategies is a year-long course designed to improve a student’s reading skills. Literacy Strategies will emphasize comprehension strategies, vocabulary development, study skills, transference of reading strategies to content-area classes, enjoyment of reading, and written response to text.

This course is taken concurrently with English 1.