Middle School Academics

Middle School Academics

Middle School Academics (Grades 5th - 8th)

PPA middle school students will receive instruction in a blended, one to one technology supported environment.  Students will spend half of their day in academic instruction. Math and Literature classes provide for both advanced and supported instruction as needed.  Class sizes are normally at or below 25 students. 

 

 

 

Middle School Academic Curricula (Grades 5th - 8th)

 

LITERATURE

Teachers create standards based literacy and literature centered units of instruction. Those units center around novel studies and include explicit grammar, vocabulary, reading and writing instruction. 

  • Wonders (5th grade)
  • Step Up To Writing
  • Educational apps support literacy
  • Reading intervention instruction utilizes the READ 180 program.  
  • IXL 

 

MATH

  • Savvas enVision
  • App based math supports
  • IXL

 

SCIENCE

  • Savvas Elevate
  • IXL
 

HISTORY

Teachers create standards aligned, project based units of instruction that utilize primary and secondary source documents
  • Step Up To Writing
  • Educational apps support literacy in the history classroom
  • IXL