Our Vision

Our goal in elementary literacy instruction is to engage our students in the joy of authentic reading and writing. This joy builds lifelong readers and writers, but also provides the motivation to learn and develop new literacy skills and strategies. All of our students read and write everyday. From the first day of kindergarten our students see themselves as readers and writers who have something to learn and something to say that is important. They begin telling stories with pictures, adding more and more detail, and then they bring what they are learning in phonics to their writing and begin to build their own words, sound by sound. This then turns to sentences and paragraphs as students move up the grades.

Instruction is delivered through a variety of methods, both explicit and implicit across the day. Instructional content includes reading and writing skills and strategies, phonics, grammar, vocabulary and handwriting. The program over the elementary years builds the foundational skills necessary for students to read and communicate across a variety of genres. All grade levels learn to read fiction and nonfiction with more and more complexity and write informational, opinion and narrative pieces through different units of study across the years.

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