The School District of Beloit literacy curricula are highly rated and aligned to Wisconsin state English Language Arts standards.  Our vision for literacy learning builds strong reading foundational skills and grade level understandings for all students through culturally relevant and responsive instructional practices, strategies and resources to meet each learner's language and literacy needs.  Through rigorous and engaging instruction in the domains of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking, we will develop students' language abilities so that they can analyze, interpret, summarize, and synthesize information from multiple sources and perspectives to make meaning of the complex world around them.  By nurturing strong home, school and community literacy partnerships, the School District of Beloit’s literacy programs will nurture the joy of reading and a strong, lifelong literacy identity within each learner so that they may excel in their pursuit of college, career and community opportunities.

• recall and use facts from literary and  informational text to support reflection and inquiry on characters, setting, key details, specified information, and ideas presented in a text (with guidance and support from adults and peers).
• participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• participate in shared and independent inquiry and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
• demonstrate an understanding of how language functions in different cultures and contexts; apply this knowledge to comprehend more fully when reading and listening, and make effective choices when composing, creating, and speaking.
• determine or  the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases in grade-level reading and content; use context clues, analyze meaningful word parts, consult general and specialized reference materials, and apply word solving strategies (for meaning) as appropriate.
• use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers (with guidance and support from adults and peers).
• learn to produce writing through printing (including forming most printed upper and lower case letters), cursive, and/or typing (with guidance and support from adults and peers).
• use adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., when other kids are happy, that makes me happy.).