Westfield High – Literacy Essentials

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This course is designed to provide direct, explicit and intensive literacy instruction to students with disabilities who are reading and./or writing significantly below grade level. Basic objectives of this literacy course is focused on closing the gap between the student's present level of performance and the level of performance needed to successfully access the general curriculum. Instruction focuses on increasing student's decoding, fluency and comprehension skills of fiction and nonfiction materials, and improving writing skills across the curriculum which is based on the diagnosis of each student's needs as outlined through the student's Individual Education Program (IEP). Students successfully completing two years of this course will satisfy the sequential elective requirement for the Standard Diploma and the Standard Diploma with credit accommodations.