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.

• stay focused on reading independently with purpose and understanding.
• explain what a text says explicitly/implicitly to infer.
• find the meaning of unknown words using context clues, meaning word parts and word solving strategies.
• identify key details/evidence.
• edit a piece of writing.
• provide positive feedback and a suggestion to a peer.
• recognize the task, purpose and audience.
• identify the main idea and supporting details.
• identify and use content specific vocabulary.
• summarize an informational text or other media.
• use and create text features.
• write an informational paragraph.
• write a persuasive paragraph.
• organize an event sequence.
• use dialogue and description.
• develop events to tell a story.