About our Reading and Writing Program-

At Village School, our programming is rich in building and strengthening the foundational blocks of reading and writing.  Our K-2 teachers use the Fundations phonics program daily, and this multisensory decoding-based systematic approach is woven throughout the rest of our literacy blocks.  Our students are "breaking the code" of phonics, learning through a progression of sequence each new phoneme pattern and then blending those sounds to make words and meaning.  Along with this, our youngest learners are becoming stronger spellers and more legible writers.  As well, our K-1 teachers follow lessons from the Heggerty phonemic awareness curriculum, leading our students through explicit oral and auditory language practice daily.

Our K-2 teachers are utilizing resources from the Fountas and Pinnell Classroom System, conducting engaging interactive read alouds, shared reading, and explicit reading and writing strategy lessons that lead to our students' authentic practice.  Our lessons are standards based and fit within the literacy components for best practice structure.  This provides both our teachers time to meet with small groups and our students interest-based choice in topics of reading and writing.   

Similarly, our 3rd-5th grade teachers are following the phonics, reading, and writing scope and sequence of the Houghton Mifflin Into Reading program.  This is a standards-driven curriculum with spiral practice, week to week, along with weekly assessment.  Our teachers build-in time in their literacy blocks for daily small group targeted lessons.