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Knowledge has a multiplier effect—the earlier you begin to build knowledge, the better you do academically in later years. English language arts lessons can integrate knowledge from science, history, geography, and other topics while students develop their reading and writing skills and expand their vocabulary. Wit & Wisdom’s approach to ELA allows students to build both skills and knowledge with every lesson. Wit & Wisdom® ELA is recognized by the Knowledge Matters Campaign as one of only six knowledge-building curricula crafted to ensure that students build critical ELA skills while also building knowledge of the world.
Supported by the Science of Reading: Through a rigorous learning design based on Scarborough’s Rope, students gain content knowledge and an awareness of how to read texts, write, speak, and listen.
A Focus on DEPTH, not breadth: Students dig deep into each module’s topic, exploring literacy, informational, and fine arts genres to create layers of knowledge that they will build on across lessons.
Students read information rich books, not basals: Wit & Wisdom students engage with complex, grade-level books, from the classics to newer works of literature. These texts are used at every turn to help students master essential ELA skills.
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Kindergarten lessons are designed to supplement our existing literacy curriculum in just 10 minutes a day and easily integrate into our full-day kindergarten program. When lessons are taught daily, addressing 10 skill compoments in each lesson, teachers see improvement in students’ reading, spelling, and writing as the students learn to hear the sounds in words.
The curriculum provides daily opportunities to develop phonological and phonemic awareness by progressing to the phoneme level through language play activities. It covers all consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, and rhyme patterns. Each lesson is fast-paced and includes embedded instructional support & modeling, differentiated instruction, an alphabet knowledge activity, and opportunities to make phoneme-grapheme connections, matching the sounds we hear to letters in print.
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