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English Language Arts
 
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Chandler English Language Arts Overview
 
Chandler Unified School District recognizes English Language Arts (ELA) is at the core of a student’s education.  Academic achievement is a high priority.  Teachers provide rich and authentic learning experiences after combining two or more of the reading, writing, speaking and listening ELA standards.
 
Students in the Chandler Unified School District are immersed in learning environments that include evidence-based core programs with expert teachers who are responsive to student needs. Teachers closely monitor student learning and performance to ensure academic excellence.
 
Through rigorous and interesting textual analysis of literature, drama, speeches, informational text, poetry and other text, students develop an understanding of other perspectives and cultures.  Twenty-first century skills are embedded in ELA instruction, preparing students to be ready to compete successfully in the global economy.
 
As students master the standards in ELA, they are able to exhibit with increasing fullness and regularity these capacities of the literate individual.

   • They demonstrate independence.
   • They build strong content knowledge.
   • They respond to the varying demands of audience, 
      task, purpose, and discipline.
   • They comprehend as well as critique.
   • They value evidence.
   • They use technology and digital media strategically and
      capably.
   • They develop an understanding of other perspectives    
      and cultures.

“Literacy arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the individual who is striving for fulfillment, happiness and personal benefit by learning how to read and write. Literacy... means far more than learning how to read and write... The aim is to transmit... knowledge and promote social participation.” 
      - UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg, Germany
         
 English Language Arts Resources
 
 CUSD English Language Arts Standards
AZ ELA Standards for 2018-19 School Year are listed below. 
 
 
 
CUSD ELA Standards
 
2017-18
English Language
Arts Standards 
Summary of Changes 
for Transition Year of 2017-18
 
 
Full Implementation of the
AZ ELA Standards in
2018-19
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 		  7th Grade
Summary of Changes		  7th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
8th Grade
Standards
 		 8th Grade
Summary of Changes		 8th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
9th Grade
Standards
 		 9th Grade
Summary of Changes		 9th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
10th Grade
 
  10th Grade
Summary of Changes		   10th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
11th Grade
Standards
 		  11th Grade
Summary of Changes		   11th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
12th Grade
Standards
 		  12th Grade
Summary of Changes		  12th Grade
AZ ELA Standards
   
 
AZ Merit Assessment
Aligned to the 
AZ ELA Standards
in Spring 2019
 
 
 
 
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