Assignment 1

ELA instruction is made up of five essential components that include the following: reading, writing,speaking,listening and language. ELA instruction incorporates performance indicators, pedagogies, scope, sequence, strategies and technology. Technology aids in ELA instruction and improves the process. Collaboration plays an essential role in ela instruction as well. Working together helps students to produce story telling/making with the incorporation of speaking and listening standards. Building vocabulary is a key feature of the standards in ELA instruction which helps students build up their language skills of incorporating words and phrases. The Common Core standards provide guidelines for ELA instruction that support “critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills(commoncore,2015). Literacy is built by implementing the five essential components and involves a step by step process that works together.