Elementary Reading/Writing

Mission:

The Laredo Independent School District and the Curriculum and Instruction Department recognize the importance of providing rigorous, systematic reading and Writing instruction to all students in order to meet the high standards that the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills require. Elementary Reading and Writing are components of the L.I.S.D. Curriculum and Instruction Department.

The Department is committed to:

  1. ensuring consistency within and across schools

  2. creating and sustaining a learner-centered classroom environment that engages all students in rigorous and relevant learning

  3. providing guidance through professional staff development or additional district-organized leaning opportunities to empower teachers with the most recent information, materials and strategies to ensure explicit and systematic TEKS based instruction

  4. including explicit instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, word recognition, fluency, academic
    vocabulary, comprehension and writing in every classroom

  5. increasing our fidelity of the implementation of the three tier reading model

  6. providing research based interventions for struggling readers with consistent progress monitoring in order to meeteach student's needs

  7. ensuring the continuous improvement of our TEKS-based curriculum and TEKS targeted tests to facilitate consistent,effective instruction and assessment

  8. assisting our students to become purposeful, fluent readers and writers