var sub2gr0="<h2>Kindergarten Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Focus</strong>: Exploring language through experience, children\'s literature, and student writing. <strong>Reading Skills</strong>: Building on previous knowledge of sounds, letters, and words; understanding the elements of story (main idea, character, beginning, middle, end); gaining confidence in reading through decoding, context and memory; enjoying books at various levels independently. <strong>Writing Focus</strong>: Developing a variety of ways to explore and express ideas. <strong>Writing Skills</strong>: Using pictures and dictations to write stories with beginning, middle and end; using symbols, letters, sight words and environmental print to convey meaning; participating in shared writing experiences of poems, books, and letters. <strong>Listening + Speaking Focus</strong>: Gaining confidence and comfort being a member of a group, as well as a leader. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Listening to others for meaning; following directions; identifying words that rhyme and creates rhyming pairs; comparing and contrasting initial and ending sounds in words; speaking clearly to convey ideas and stories, and describe events sequentially; speaking with adults and peers in appropriate ways; developing comfort in speaking to a group.</p>"; 
var sub2gr1="<h2>1st Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Concepts and Skills</strong>: Concepts of print and parts of books; decoding strategies; context and picture cues; phonemic awareness; word study; sight words; just right books; fiction and nonfiction texts. <strong>Writing Concepts and Skills</strong>: Writing journals, letters, lists and stories; rules of capitalization and punctuation; generating ideas, revising and editing in the writing process. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Following multi-step directions; listening to the ideas and opinions of others; determining the difference between comments and questions; speaking clearly in conversation; using descriptive language to tell stories in sequence; asking questions, offering explanations and sharing information and opinions; speaking in front of a small group; monitoring volume and tone of voice appropriately. <strong>Highlight</strong>: Writing Workshop Publishing Parties.</p>"; 
var sub2gr2="<h2>2nd Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Concepts</strong>: Develop rich reading life, telling and retelling stories, story elements, folktales, fairy tales, legends and myths, informational texts, nonfiction, biographies, magazines. <strong>Reading Skills</strong>: Develop ownership of personal reading life, make book choices that support independent thinking, read independently for extended periods of time, identify and study story elements within text, use text in discussions to ask thoughtful questions or support theories, make inferences and predictions that reflect deep comprehension, apply appropriate strategies for understanding informational texts. Decode multi-syllabic words, analyze the structure of words, new vocabulary acquisition, read aloud fluently and expressively. <strong>Writing Concepts</strong>: Develop rich writing life, personal narratives, fiction stories, nonfiction writing, newsletter articles. <strong>Writing Skills</strong>: Understand, practice and publish as a process that includes a variable audience, write narratives with a logical sequence of events, personal response to text; write stories that include character development, setting, problem and solution, write informational texts in an organized and detailed manner, develop skills for revision and editing, vocabulary to describe setting, character, and action, use basic grammar, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation, write a friendly letter, spelling - frequently used irregular words and words that follow regular patterns, mastery of print handwriting. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Listen to gain information and for pleasure, follow multi-step directions, stay on topic in conversation and contribute relevant information, speak with detail and in complex sentences, use of formal and informal language for appropriate purpose - to inform, give directions, or entertain. <strong>Highlights</strong>: Publishing parties, author and genre studies.</p>"; 
var sub2gr3="<h2>3rd Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Focus</strong>: Literature circles/book Clubs, non-fiction genre study, author studies. <strong>Reading Skills</strong>: discuss literature with a group; interpret reading by making connections between literature and personal experiences; develop interpretation of text; answer \"why,\" \"how,\" and \"what if\" questions; distinguish between fact and opinion; use books as resources; self-monitor for meaning and self-correct while reading; analyze parts of words, structure of words and context to read unfamiliar words; read aloud fluently with expression. <strong>Writing Focus</strong>: Who Are We As Writers?; creative writing and nonfiction; using authors as mentors; peer conferencing; using perspective and culture to enhance stories; and paragraph writing. <strong>Writing Skills</strong>: Independently manage the writing process, focusing on developing ideas, revising and editing own work, responding to revisions, and offering feedback to classmates in revision process; organizing writing for clarity using complex sentences and paragraphing; using punctuation including quotation marks, commas, and apostrophes; adjusting writing style for different purposes; using strong and creative leads in writing; using descriptive language to enhance writing; spelling previously studied words and words that follow regular patterns; applying knowledge of root words and word parts, representing each sound, to spell unfamiliar words; following a structure to gather and organize information into a research report; begin use of cursive handwriting. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Listen attentively focusing on speaker; follow multi-step directions; analyze and interpret what is heard; ask specific questions to clarify understanding; use precise language and vocabulary to express ideas.</p>"; 
var sub2gr4="<h2>4th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Focus</strong>: Literature circles, class novels including <i>By the Great Horn Spoon</i> and <i>Island of the Blue Dolphins</i>, independent reading, social studies research. <strong>Reading Skills</strong>: Reading grade level narrative and expository text independently and fluently, understanding and learning from texts, discussing texts by making connections with experience and other texts; recognizing and identifying story components and make inferences; expanding ideas, knowledge and vocabulary by reading; summarizing and explaining what has been read. <strong>Writing Focus</strong>: Writing notebook, non-fiction articles, perspective and point of view, poetry, research. <strong>Writing Skills</strong>: Identify and implement the steps of the writing process to write fiction and non-fiction that focuses on a central idea or message in appropriate style and voice; use and understand sentences and paragraphs; use capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, agreement, and complex sentences in writing; spell previously studied words and words that follow regular patterns; use resources to spell unknown words accurately; evaluate and revise writing to enhance clarity, detail and organization; use description, comparisons and details to create imagery; gather and organize information for research writing; use of cursive handwriting. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Listen attentively, retell components of stories in sequence, highlight main ideas; differentiate between fact and opinion; use presentation to influence listener; lead whole class and small group discussions; organize ideas before speaking; choose appropriate vocabulary for audience. <strong>Highlight</strong>: Publish non-fiction Gold Rush picture book.</p>"; 
var sub2gr5="<h2>5th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p><strong>Reading Focus</strong>: Imagining United States history through historical fiction, strategies for responding to diverse texts. <strong>Reading Skills</strong>: Independently apply reading strategies; develop vocabulary through reading; analyze and interpret fiction and nonfiction; respond creatively to show understanding of text; select literary forms and genres for appropriate purpose, including research. <strong>Writing Focus</strong>: Short stories; expository writing; poetry. <strong>Writing Skills</strong>: Effectively communicate, learn, teach, document, and create through various forms of writing; use all aspects of the writing process for fiction and non-fiction writing; develop writing traits (ideas and content, organization, word choice, fluency, language conventions, voice, presentation); apply mechanical and grammatical conventions when writing; spell multi-syllabic words and correctly use resources to assist; evaluate and revise writing for meaning, focus and organization. <strong>Listening + Speaking Skills</strong>: Understand and analyze content of class discussions; write and deliver a speech; actively listen and share in small and large group discussions; organize ideas before speaking.</p>"; 
var sub2gr6="<h2>6th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Integrated with social studies in a humanities course. <strong>Focus</strong>: concepts of self, empathy, loyalty, and choices. <strong>Routines</strong>: Writing -– journal, memoir, literary response essay; vocabulary; test-taking skills. <strong>Literature</strong>: The Misfits, The Red Pony, The Outsiders, Red Scarf Girl. <strong>Projects</strong>: Personal artifact essay, memoir, monologue presentation, short story, letter to character, poetry reading.</p>"; 
var sub2gr7="<h2>7th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Course content is interdisciplinary with Social Studies. <strong>Focus</strong>: Writing workshop, reading from myriad sources/texts/novels, vocabulary study, grammar workshop. <strong>Routines</strong>: Literary analysis, journal writing, independent reading, thinking routines, literature discussions, weekly vocabulary, spelling quizzes, grammar/conventions quizzes, read aloud, reading response activity. <strong>Literature</strong>: Into the Wild, Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope, The Diary of Anne Frank, Zlata\'s Diary, Lord of the Flies, A Bottle in the Gaza Sea, The Year of Impossible Goodbyes, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, choice of various bildungsroman novels: Great Expectations, The Absolute Diary of a Part-Time Indian, China Boy, A Step From Heaven, Behind the Mountains, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. <strong>Projects</strong>: Literary response essays, perspective writing, allegory story, descriptive writing, bildungsroman story.</p>"; 
var sub2gr8="<h2>8th Grade Language + Literacy</h2><p>Integrated with social studies in middle school humanities program. <strong>Focus</strong>: American Revolution, U.S. Constitution, westward expansion, Civil War, Reconstruction, civil rights movement. <strong>Literature</strong>: Things Fall Apart, Animal Farm, The Pearl, A House on Mango Street, Warriors Don\'t Cry, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, American Born Chinese, The Surrounded, To Kill a Mockingbird. <strong>Skills</strong>: Journal writing, literature discussions, independent reading, read aloud, weekly vocabulary & grammar, test taking, group work. <strong>Projects</strong>: book review, analytical essay, persuasive letter, political party website, original constitutions, monument proposals for unsung activists, fables, poetic prose, graphic novel.</p>";