TAKS Reading
This class offers instruction in word recognition, comprehension strategies, and vocabulary to ensure that students have an opportunity to read with competence, confidence, and understanding.
The students are given opportunities to locate information in varied sources, to read critically, to evaluate sources, and to draw supportable conclusions.
They will learn how various texts are organized and how authors choose language for effect. All of these strategies are applied in texts that cross the subject fields.
MRS/BLS/Dyslexia
Basic Language Skills/Multisensory Reading and Spelling is an intensive, therapeutic curriculum that meets the guidelines of the Texas Dyslexia Legislation and is effective with students with dyslexia and other related disorders.
The evidence-based curriculum shares similar philosophies and characteristics with other Orton-Gillingham-based curricula and provides instruction in phonemic awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, handwriting, vocabulary, and oral and written expression.
For more information on the Basic Language Skills curriculum, please contact the Neuhaus Education Center.
Class Contact Information:
943-5000
x8090 (NGC)
x7331 (GHS)
Be sure to check out the syllabus and upcoming projects, quizzes and tests pages for important information.