Early Childhood

Balanced Literacy

READING (40 min/day)

(5-10min) Whole Group: Read aloud or shared reading (building background), Direct/Explicit Instruction, Guided practice and feedback

(30min) Teacher: Guided reading, Small group instruction, Assessment Student: Small group instruction/1:1 instruction, Independent reading, read aloud

Overall Curriculum

• • Carolina Curriculum

Literature

• • Read Alouds - repetitive, predictive text

  • Tell Me AAC

Word Work/Phonics

• • Jolly Phonics

  • Teach Your Monster to Read

Writing

• • Letter identification/Writing letters

  • Name writing

Mathematics (30 minutes/day)

Creative Curriculum

Number sense

• • Identifying numbers

  • 1:1 correspondence

  • Counting

Math Concepts

• • Color identification

  • Sorting

  • Matching

Centers (30 minutes per day)

Play Skills

• • Sharing

  • Requesting items

  • Joining in others play

  • Learning new games

  • Make believe play