Language Arts Department @ Eli Whitney School

TLC/Reading Lab      Room 22

Language Arts Consultants    Barbara Brooks

                                                  Linda Paradise

                                                  Carole Donahue  (Room  13)

TLC Tutors                                 Lisa Adams

                                                  Patricia Johnson

                                                  Alison Lloyd

                                                  Susan Sullivan

                                                                 Instruction in Room 22  

Room 22 serves many purposes!   Our primary role is to help the student achieve greater success in communication through reading and writing.

TLC Instruction

Room 22 serves many purposes.  In the morning, selected first grade students  receive one to one (1:1) instruction in reading  strategies  based on their own individual reading levels.  This instruction ,most notably entitled TLC,  stands for Teaching for Literacy Competence.  Here students  learn how to decode  words and make meaning from text by:  using picture clues, “getting their mouths ready to make the first sound,” looking  for “chunks,” and determining  if words read “look right,” “sound right," and/or “make sense."  This program also includes  instruction in fluency, comprehension, and writing. Such instruction is provided by trained TLC tutors and supervised by the Language Arts Consultants.

Small Group Instruction

Students in grades one through six receive small group instruction based on individual students' needs. Such needs are determined by various district assessments which include (but are not limited to): 

DRP (Degrees of Reading Power)

DRA2 (Developmental  Reading Assessment)

CMT4  (CT Mastery Test)

grade level assessments

Classroom teacher judgements are critical to student selection.

Inclusion/ Classroom Instruction

As Reading Consultants, our role also includes working with teachers in classrooms, instructing and reinforcing reading  skills, whole group or small group as necessary . 

                                                    Upcoming Events

November  14-15     2009       Connecticut Children’s Book Fair  @    UCONN, Storrs, Connecticut

December                  2009       Polar Express  @  Barnes & Noble Book  Store,   Hazard Avenue, Enfield

December                  2009       Reading Contest   BINGO   

February                    2010      Connecticut Loves to Read   Day  @  Enfield Central Public Library

March                        2010      Reading Contest  - To Be Announced

April                            2010       Poetry Mouth

May                            2010      National Children’s Book Week     

Children should actively read at least  thirty (30) minutes per day to maintain reading skills!  Parents also influence their children’s success by reading each and every day to their children. Read-alouds increase vocabulary, and improve language and comprehension. We are happy to provide you with booklists to support your search for interesting and appropriate literature!