N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.371

Current through Register No. 50, December 12, 2024

Section Ed 306.371 - English/Language Arts and Reading Program, July 1, 2015

(a) Pursuant to Ed.306.26 and Ed. 306.27, the local school board shall require no later than July 1, 2015, conditioned on legislative approval, that an English language arts (ELA) education program be provided for each k-12 student.

(b) ELA programs in each school shall prepare literate students, by including planned learning strategies and opportunities that:

(1) Provide students with teaching and instructional practices that:

a. Prepare students to comprehend and evaluate complex texts across a range of types and disciplines, and to construct effective arguments and convey intricate or multifaceted information;

b. Establish a base of knowledge across a wide range of subject matter by engaging with works of quality and substance;

c. Prepare students to adapt communication in relation to audience, task, purpose, and discipline;

d. Establish students as engaged and open-minded, but discerning, readers and listeners;

e. Prepare students to cite specific evidence when offering an oral or written interpretation of a text;

f. Prepare students to understand other perspectives and cultures;

g. Prepare students for college or career; and

h. Prepare students to use technology and digital media strategically and capably;

(2) Provide students with knowledge and experience of the following ELA practices:

a. Reading appropriately complex literary and informational text;

b. Writing for a variety of tasks, purposes and audiences;

c. Researching using 21^st century learning skills and technology;

d. Analyzing and interpreting key ideas and details in a wide range of texts;

e. Using appropriate grammar and diction;

f. Speaking and listening in both small and large groups for a variety of purposes;

g. Engaging in argument from evidence; and

h. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information;

(3) Provide students with knowledge and experience of the following ELA standards and skills in:

a. Reading;

b. Writing;

c. Speaking and listening;

d. Language; and

e. Viewing visual media

(4) Provide students with appropriate learning progressions that provide knowledge and experience in the following areas:

a. Reading and writing habits and workplace practices;

b. Reading and making meaning at the word level;

c. Reading literature and making meaning at the text level;

d. Reading informational texts;

e. Writing literary texts/communicating ideas and experiences;

f. Writing to inform and communicating ideas through informative texts; and

g. Writing persuasively/communicating opinions, critiques, & arguments.

(c) Each district shall establish and provide a comprehensive, sequentially designed, k-12 ELA curriculum designed to meet the minimum standards for college and career readiness and that provides for continued growth in all content areas consistent with RSA 193-C:3,III.

(d) For ELA education programs in grades k-12, schools shall provide for the ongoing, authentic assessment of student learning outcomes through multiple formative and summative assessment instruments that are aligned with the state and district content and performance standards.

(e) Examples of such assessment shall include, but not be limited to:

(1) Teacher observations of student performance;

(2) Competency-based or performance based assessments;

(3) Common assessments developed locally; and

(4) Project evaluation rubrics used to evaluate ELA education proficiencies applied to integrated curriculum assignments, extended learning opportunities, and out of school learning environments.

(f) For all ELA education programs, schools shall report the academic performance of all students on a regular basis by providing the following:

(1) A summary of individual student performance to parents at least 3 times each year; and

(2) The opportunity for parents to meet individually with their students' teachers about their student's performance at least once during each school year.

(g) For all ELA education programs, schools shall demonstrate how school and student assessment data are used to evaluate, develop, and improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

N.H. Admin. Code § Ed 306.371

Amended by Volume XXXIV Number 16, Filed April 17, 2014, Proposed by #10556, Effective 3/27/2014, Expires3/27/2024.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 35, Number 27, eff.6/29/2015 is not yet available.

The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 36, Number 06, eff.1/8/2016 is not yet available.