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

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