Literacy
READING
UFLI Foundations
UFLI Foundations is an explicit and systematic program that teaches students the foundational skills necessary for proficient reading. It follows a carefully developed scope and sequence designed to ensure that students systematically acquire each skill needed and learn to apply each skill with automaticity and confidence. The program is designed to be used for core instruction in the primary grades or for intervention with struggling students in any grade.
Heggerty
Phonemic Awareness
This program engages students in a whole group setting for about 10 minutes each day. You'll here your children calling it the "Big Blue Book"- It is part of our morning meeting routine. "It provides students with instruction in phonological awareness, progressing to the phoneme level through language play activities. It covers all consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, and rime patterns, with hearing words with long vowels being introduced in the later weeks of this curriculum." https://heggerty.org/curriculum/kindergarten/
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20 POwer Words
(sight Words)
We will learn to Read and Spell these words this year!
Handwriting
Welcome to Handwriting Without Tears
Good handwriting is one of the foundation skills of language development. As handwriting skills are developed, students will focus on content rather than on the mechanics of letter and number formation. As children gain handwriting mastery, their writing becomes more fluid and automatic, so they can write with speed and ease.
The Handwriting Without Tears program was developed by teachers, administrators, and occupational therapists. It is the combination of many successes of the young writer.
The program begins with capital letters and numbers. It then moves forward to lowercase letters. The children use blocks, a small chalkboard, and a booklet. These various tools using tactile and kinesthetic ways of learning help the child to form their letters and numbers correctly. There is also a a set of songs that comes with the program. A favorite song is “ start your letters at the top”.
For more information, you may go to the Handwriting Without Tears website at www.hwtears.com/click