The K-3 Language Arts Program is taught daily with an emphasis on developing strong reading and writing skills. The L.A. program is designed to stimulate curiosity and exploration by making learning an engaging process that enables the youngest generation of scholars to build a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and enduring understandings. Class activities, lessons, and assessments emphasize experiential learning through Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop. The Six Traits of excellent writing are introduced through the use of authentic texts, and students are taught to identify the traits in both fiction and non-fiction texts. With the help of their teacher, students are able to transfer the traits into their own writing. Daily journal entries that emphasize narrative and expository writing forms allow students to build a portfolio of work. Nonfiction reading, coupled with quality fictional pieces, complement the development of higher-level critical thinking skills. K-3 students also benefit from a daily 30 Minute Block of explicit phonics instruction based on Orton Gillingham strategies.
Kindergarten students continue to meet success within the Tools of the Mind Program, while students in grades 1-3 are guided through a research-based balanced literacy program of spiraling complexity that encourages incremental growth of skills and ever increasing independence as readers and writers.
The K-3 Language Arts Program is taught daily with an emphasis on developing strong reading and writing skills. The L.A. program is designed to stimulate curiosity and exploration by making learning an engaging process that enables the youngest generation of scholars to build a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and enduring understandings. Class activities, lessons, and assessments emphasize experiential learning through Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop. The Six Traits of excellent writing are introduced through the use of authentic texts, and students are taught to identify the traits in both fiction and non-fiction texts. With the help of their teacher, students are able to transfer the traits into their own writing. Daily journal entries that emphasize narrative and expository writing forms allow students to build a portfolio of work. Nonfiction reading, coupled with quality fictional pieces, complement the development of higher-level critical thinking skills. K-3 students also benefit from a daily 30 Minute Block of explicit phonics instruction based on Orton Gillingham strategies.
Kindergarten students continue to meet success within the Tools of the Mind Program, while students in grades 1-3 are guided through a research-based balanced literacy program of spiraling complexity that encourages incremental growth of skills and ever increasing independence as readers and writers.
The K-3 Language Arts Program is taught daily with an emphasis on developing strong reading and writing skills. The L.A. program is designed to stimulate curiosity and exploration by making learning an engaging process that enables the youngest generation of scholars to build a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and enduring understandings. Class activities, lessons, and assessments emphasize experiential learning through Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop. The Six Traits of excellent writing are introduced through the use of authentic texts, and students are taught to identify the traits in both fiction and non-fiction texts. With the help of their teacher, students are able to transfer the traits into their own writing. Daily journal entries that emphasize narrative and expository writing forms allow students to build a portfolio of work. Nonfiction reading, coupled with quality fictional pieces, complement the development of higher-level critical thinking skills. K-3 students also benefit from a daily 30 Minute Block of explicit phonics instruction based on Orton Gillingham strategies.
Kindergarten students continue to meet success within the Tools of the Mind Program, while students in grades 1-3 are guided through a research-based balanced literacy program of spiraling complexity that encourages incremental growth of skills and ever increasing independence as readers and writers.