Below are listed some of the main topics of the Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts curriculum.    With children's development of  language progressing so quickly at this young age, much of our instructional time is devoted to Reading and Language Arts lessons.  Each day students will work through a progression of language skills flowing from Phonics to Sight Words and Reading.  Comprehension skills will be woven throughout teacher read aloud books, student read decodable texts, and all curriculum areas.  Writing lessons will include work from Reading books, seasonal activities, and structured grammar lessons.  

• Phonics - consonants, short vowels, digraphs (such as th and sh), long vowels and long vowels

• Sight Words - Many words are from the Dolch list and are taught using our decodable texts.  Words will be sent home as each unit of study begins.

• Reading Comprehension - themes, character analysis, comparison to Jesus, main ideas, details, inferencing, predicting, drawing conclusions, etc.

• Writing - sentence structure, nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, and a friendly letter