Reading for Success is a badge that helps learners build essential reading strategies for academic success and everyday life. Learners will explore topics such as how to find key information in texts, identify main ideas and details, and interpret the meanings of words and phrases. They will develop the critical thinking skills necessary to analyze ideas, distinguish facts from opinions, and draw conclusions. Additionally, learners will identify the organizational structures of texts and the purpose of literary techniques.
- Teacher: Karen Cook-Newbury
- Teacher: Dolly Horton
- Teacher: Janelle Washburn
Writing with Purpose is a badge that helps learners develop essential writing skills for academic success and everyday life. Learners will develop the skills to write grammatically correct sentences and paragraphs that communicate ideas and information. They will learn to identify how a writer’s stylistic choices impact their persuasiveness and credibility. Learners will create writing for different purposes.
- Teacher: Karen Cook-Newbury
- Teacher: Dolly Horton
- Teacher: Janelle Washburn
