The ELA instruction integrates all areas of Language Arts, and is a complete, comprehensive guide for the expectations of students in regard to reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language. ELA provides clarity of each of these separate skills, and how they are related. It explains that good reading means good comprehension, and then writing means being able to reflect in writing the knowledge gained by the written text. Speaking and listening include oral communication and collaboration. Integrating information and expressing ideas from different resources as well as listening to others are part of the speaking and listening standards as well. Language skills as explained through ELA include understanding language, vocabulary and nuances in the written and spoken word. In general, the ELA standards include all the above skills, and how they are integrated with one another.