Morse High – Literacy Advancement Academy (1682, 1683)

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

Literacy Advancement Academy 1,2 is a one- or two-semester elective support course for students who are performing below or significantly below grade level in their regular ninth-grade English courses, as determined by multiple measures, including standardized and classroom-imbedded assessments and teacher and principal recommendations. It is taught in addition to, not instead of, a student’s regular English course. This course is intended to help students achieve grade-level English language arts standards by providing them with additional opportunities to learn reading and writing strategies and to apply those strategies in a variety of authentic ways. The instruction in this course supports the standards-based units of study the students complete in their English 1,2 course. The course approaches reading and writing as processes. Students receive explicit instruction on how texts work, and they analyze a variety of types of texts. Students also develop their abilities to write, revise, and publish narrative, argumentative, and informational texts.