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.

• summarize texts, from a variety of genres, to determine a theme or central idea and explain how it is supported by key details.
• locate and refer to relevant details and evidence when explaining what a text says explicitly/implicitly and make logical inferences.
• describe a character (traits, motivations, and/or feelings), setting, or event, drawing on specific details in the text.
• produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
• determine the meaning of words, phrases, figurative language, academic, and content-specific words within a text.
• explain how text features (e.g., charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, illustrations) contribute to an understanding of the text.
• recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information and provide a list of sources.
• recall and use facts from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and inquiry.
• recognize genres and make connections to other texts, ideas, cultural perspectives, identities, eras, personal events, and situations.
• identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
• explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence.
• compare and contrast a primary and secondary source on the same event or topic (Informational Text).