The Language Department dedicates one hour per week in grades 1 through 8 to developing reading comprehension strategies. These strategies are also explicitly addressed in English class to reinforce reading comprehension. Some of the strategies covered include: identifying the main idea, inferring, comparing, summarizing, and extracting explicit or implicit information from texts, among others. This is complemented by a home reading plan, in which students read one book per month, which is then assessed. Additionally, during daily Homeroom, both students and teachers read silently for 10 minutes during class time.
TEXT PRODUCTION PROGRAM
The Language Department in grades 5 and 6 begins explicitly teaching the stages of writing, using a process-oriented model divided into: planning, drafting, revising and/or editing, culminating in the publication stage (sharing a text with readers). These phases enable students to develop into competent writers of any type of text through a flexible, cyclical, and recursive process that requires metacognition. Writing is taught according to social and academic conventions, within a specific communicative context (type of audience).
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