English Language Arts
The Cedar Rapids Community School District takes an integrated approach to building essential foundational skills in literacy to ensure students have the reading, writing, speaking and listening abilities to produce creative and purposeful expression in language.
One of our goals is to produce students who will be able to read critically in order to carefully pick through the overwhelming amount of information available in print and digitally. An additional goal is to produce students who will be able to undertake close, attentive reading required to be able to understand and enjoy complex works of literature. Both of these skills are critical in order to be a literate person in the twenty-first century.
English Language Arts instruction in the Cedar Rapids Community School District is aligned with the academic standards in the Iowa Core.
Curriculum – Elementary Language Arts
Susan VanWoert
Address: 2500 Edgewood Road NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405
Phone: 319-558- 4698
Email: svanwoert@cr.k12.ia.us
Curriculum – Secondary Language Arts
Erin Thompson
Address: 2500 Edgewood Road NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405
Phone: 319-558-3098
Email: ethompson@cr.k12.ia.us
Kindergarten – 5th Grade English Language Arts Units
6th – 8th Grade English Language Arts Units
9th – 12th Grade English Language Arts
Please find course descriptions and graduation requirements in our High School Program of Studies
