La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXXXI-325

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section CXXXI-325 - English Language Arts Content Pedagogy Competencies

A. The teacher candidate applies knowledge of the relationships among speaking and listening, language, reading, and writing to use writing and speaking and listening experiences in conjunction with language and reading instruction to enhance student reading and writing development.

1. The teacher candidate for B-K, PK-3, and 1-5 uses knowledge of the progression of phonological awareness skills to select or design and implement sequenced lessons and units that scaffold student development of phonological awareness and enhance reading and writing development through the use of a variety of intentional, explicit, and systematic instructional practices embedded in a range of continuous texts.

2. The teacher candidate for grades 1-5, 4-8, and 6-12 uses knowledge of the progression of language, reading, and writing skills to select or design and implement lesson sequences that scaffold and enhance early adolescent and adolescent student reading and writing development through the use of a variety of intentional, explicit, and systematic instructional practices embedded in a range of continuous texts for small-group instruction or intervention in addition to whole-class instruction with grade-level standards.

3. The teacher candidate uses knowledge of the relationship between phonemes and graphemes to plan writing experiences in conjunction with phonological instruction to enhance student reading and writing development.

4. The teacher candidate selects and uses various strategies to develop student reading fluency, including guiding student awareness of syntax and discourse.

5. The teacher candidate selects or designs and implements lessons and unit sequences which provide opportunities for all students to read a wide range and volume of texts for various purposes of understanding, pleasure, and research, and make connections among texts based on the language, craft, topics, themes, and/or ideas.

6. When appropriate and based on age- or grade-level standards, the teacher candidate supports student selection of texts and assessment of the credibility and usability of texts for different purposes.

7. The teacher candidate schedules and coordinates instructional time to make content connections with science, social studies, and the arts to ensure students build a wide vocabulary and knowledge of the world.

B. The teacher candidate selects or designs and implements instruction that provides opportunities for students at various stages of language, reading, and writing development to accurately and fluently read, understand, and express understanding of a range of complex grade-level texts, as determined by age- or grade-level standards.

1. The teacher candidate selects a volume of appropriately complex texts about similar topics, themes, and/or ideas that present opportunities for instruction and assessment of age- or grade-level standards.

2. The teacher candidate selects and uses multiple academic standards for instruction with selected complex texts about similar topics, themes, or ideas to identify sections for rereading through interactive read aloud, read along, pair or group reading, and/or independent reading, and creates and sequences questions and tasks.

3. The teacher candidate anticipates student misconceptions or challenges and identifies a variety of grade-level appropriate instructional strategies to scaffold instruction and provide all students with opportunities to read, understand, and express understanding through conversations and writing using grade-level appropriate language, conventions, spelling, and structure.

4. The teacher candidate fluently applies principles of explicit and direct teaching: modeling, leading, giving, guided practice, and reviewing.

5. The teacher candidate implements multisensory and multimodal techniques to enhance instruction.

6. The teacher candidate designs and teaches routines to support a complete lesson format, from the introduction of a word recognition concept to fluent application in meaningful reading and writing.

C. The teacher candidate selects or designs and implements instructional materials that develops student ability to meet the age- or grade-level standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language by composing a range of oral, written, and visual texts using formal and informal, process and on-demand, and different genres for a variety of purposes and audiences).

1. The teacher candidate selects and uses multiple academic standards for instruction with selected complex texts about similar topics, themes, and ideas to select or design composition tasks that explain, analyze, challenge, or extend the language, craft, topics, themes, and ideas of the texts.

2. The teacher candidate locates models of writing in complex texts to illustrate word choice, syntax, sentence variety, fluency, text structure, and style and selects or designs and implements instruction that develops student ability to use the models to advance language, structure, and style in personal writing.

3. The teacher candidate facilitates classroom discussions based on the age- or grade-level standards for speaking and listening that allow students to refine thinking about the language, craft, topics, themes, and/or ideas in complex texts in preparation for writing, when appropriate, as indicated by academic standards.

4. The teacher candidate develops, based on academic standards, student ability to create an organizing idea or thesis statement, effectively organize and develop a written, oral, or visual response, and, when appropriate, develop a topic or support an opinion or claim about the language, craft, topics, themes, and/or ideas in complex texts using relevant evidence.

5. The teacher candidate provides opportunities incorporating technology for students to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish written, oral, visual, and digital texts, individually and collaboratively through shared and small-group writing and peer editing to communicate knowledge, ideas, understandings, insights, and experiences.

6. The teacher candidate anticipates how students may use non-standard language orally and in writing and selects or designs and implements instruction based on age- or grade-level standards to develop student ability to use language conventions of grammar, usage, and mechanics accurately and strategically in writing for different audiences and purposes.

7. The teacher candidate selects or designs and implements tasks for all students, as indicated by academic standards for reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language that require research of a topic, theme, or idea presented in complex texts and communication of findings orally and in writing.

8. The teacher candidate designs and implements research-based adaptations of instruction for students with advanced literacy skills and for students with weaknesses in working memory, attention, executive function, or processing speed.

D. The teacher candidate applies knowledge of language, reading, and writing development to select or design and use a range of ongoing classroom assessments including diagnostic, formal and informal, formative and summative, oral, and written which measure students' ability to read, understand, and demonstrate understanding of a range of grade-level complex texts to inform and adjust planning and instruction.

1. The teacher candidate selects or designs a range of ongoing assessments including formal and informal, formative and summative, oral, and written to measure student ability to use knowledge of language, print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, and word recognition to accurately and fluently read, understand, and express understanding of a range of continuous texts.

2. The teacher candidate applies knowledge of reading, writing, and language development to identify trends in student reading foundational skills, writing, and language development and identify students who are in need of additional support with decoding, fluency, vocabulary development, speaking and listening, writing, and grammar.

3. The teacher candidate assesses specific reading behaviors often associated with fluency problems such as lack of automaticity, substitution, omissions, repetitions, inappropriate reading rates, and inaccuracy and recognizes atypical developmental patterns, and collaborates with colleagues and specialists to plan and implement appropriate instructional support(s) that address individual needs without replacing regular classroom instruction.

4. The teacher candidate assesses student written expression skills of handwriting for elements of legibility, such as letter formation, size and proportion, and spacing, and keyboarding for proper technique and style, such as adequate rate and accuracy, appropriate spacing, and proficiency with word processing programs, identifies elements that need improvement, and designs instructional supports that support student mastery.

5. The teacher candidate uses assessment trends to make adjustments to instructional plans through re-teaching, targeted mini-lessons, individualized or small-group remediation, or extension and identifies differentiated instructional supports that provide all students with opportunities to read, understand, and express understanding of complex texts, as determined by age- or grade-level standards.

6. The teacher candidate uses assessment trends to form flexible groups of students and select or design and implement small-group instruction to improve student ability to read independently a range of continuous texts and write in response using age- or grade-level appropriate conventions, spelling, language, and structure.

7. The teacher candidate understands and explains types of assessments specific to early literacy skills, along with their purposes, strengths, and limitations, as well as national norms associated with literacy skills.

8. The teacher candidate administers and interprets both print and electronic early literacy assessment for purposes including but not limited to formative or summative assessment, diagnostic purposes, and progress monitoring.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXXXI-325

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 32:1804 (October 2006), amended LR 33:2355 (November 2007), LR 35:1487 (August 2009), Amended LR 431311 (7/1/2017), Amended LR 461377 (10/1/2020), Amended LR 48424 (3/1/2022), Repromulgated LR 481026 (4/1/2022), Amended LR 481756 (7/1/2022).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10), (11), and (15), R.S. 17:7(6), R.S. 17:10, R.S. 17:22(6), R.S.17:24.9, R.S. 17:391.1-391.10, and R.S. 17:411.