Academic Instruction
WRITING
How do we teach writing to a group of students who may have a hard time holding a pencil? Click THIS LINK to find out more.
Click on the Predictable Chart Writing picture to learn more about this strategy we use to increase writing skills.
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READING
Shared Reading
You might hear me talk about shared reading. But what is it? In it's most basic form, it is a way to increase engagement while reading a text with a student. Click THIS LINK to find out more.
Making Words
Making words is the phonics portion of our alternate curriculum. Making words is based on the research by Dr. Patricia M. Cunningham and is divided into sections of 10 lessons. Each lesson is hands on and has students manipulating letter tiles to review sounds, build words and compare words.
Learning Letters
Learning Letters is the phonics program your child would follow if they do not yet demonstrate mastery of letter names or sounds. Learning Letters follows a letter of the day (instead of traditional classrooms that do letters of the week) in order to increase exposure to letters. After the full alphabet is reviewed, we start over, but follow a different order of the letters (called a cycle).
For Grades K-2 we use a curriculum called ReadtopiaGo. Please visit the ReadtopiaGo website for more information.
For Grades 3-6 we use a curriculum called Readtopia. Please visit the Readtopia website for more information.