Each day we will spend time in whole and small group settings working on important skills such as comprehension, vocabulary, phonics, writing development as well as handwriting.
We use Reading Street as our core curriculum for comprehension. Students have the opportunity to read fiction and non-fiction stories to work on a variety of comprehension skills such as: predicting, inferring, and retelling. In addition, we will practice identifying the characters, setting, problem, and solution as we read.
We use Letterland as our phonics and spelling program. This program brings letters and letters sounds to life using characters that represent each letter of the alphabet to help children learn letter names and sounds. This program also uses fun and engaging stories about the letter characters to teach concepts such as: digraphs, silent e, vowel teams and r controlled vowels.
When it comes to writing we will have two focuses: handwriting and writing development. Students will receive explicit handwriting instruction using the program, Handwriting Without Tears. This multi-sensory handwriting program supports all learning styles to master handwriting as an automatic and comfortable skill. Students will learn about three different types of writing this year. We will practice and explore: opinion writing, informational writing and narrative writing.