Grade+9+ELA

 **What are essential topics and skills for grade 9 ELA?**

Skills:
 * visualizing literature
 * solving problems
 * arguing & debating
 * engaging in ethical dilemmas
 * verifying information
 * inferring
 * connecting to the human experience and real world information
 * reflecting
 * communicating in real world ways (reports, emails, notes, presentations, labs)

 **What tools engage students effectively in 9th grade?**
 * Set parameters
 * Raise level of concern
 * Use reader's theater to introduce lit and provide auditory connection
 * Develop activities to teach the development of inferences (use real world if/then scenarios)