Components of ELA

It is vital for a teacher to teach the five components of the English Language Arts. The five key components consist of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language across the curriculum. This can be taught to all ages. A single K-5 standard is taught through one teacher, where as in grade 6-12, it is taught through the English Language teacher and by the teacher that teaches history/social studies,science and other technical subjects. I feel that it is very important that English Language teachers should include this in their subjects, so that it broadens the students’ knowledge and understanding in what they are learning.

The first component of ELA, is Reading, the students take a simple text and try to understand it. This places an emphasis on what students read and the skill with which they understand it. In the reading area students make connections between texts and ideas. It’s not enough that a student should be able to read something if they don’t understand it, they have to comprehend and understand what they are reading. 

The next component is Writing, the ability to plan, revise, edit and publish. These are applicable to many types of writing such as arguments, informative and explanatory texts. 

The next component of the  process is Speaking and Listening, this is where students work together to create podcasts, and to communicate with one another on how they can work on their writing so they can all succeed in their writing skills.

 The last component is Language, where the teachers teaches the students exciting and new vocabulary usage, which enhances the student’s use of the language.