READING 

K-2nd Reading Program:

(focuses on Balanced Literacy instruction)

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• Students will do site word work, participate in guided reading lessons, and read independently

• All work will be based on students individual reading level 

• Students will also be taught reading skills such as decoding, reading comprehension of fictional and nonfictional text, reading fluency, inferencing, and other higher-level reading skills.

• Reading independently will be for both enjoyment and for the student to display their understanding of what they are reading through journaling, projects, book reports, and formal papers.

 

3rd-5th Reading Program:

• (transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn)

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• Studies have shown children who read a variety of text written for different purposes will become more effective readers and writers, therefore we have focused on creating a program that has students read more novels and begin to read many different types of texts

• The focus will be on strong comprehension skills and being able to build writing skills to match the reading skills

• Also teaching them how to apply reading comprehension skills to determine the author's purpose, explicit and implicit meaning, and other upper-level skills.

 

WRITING

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Our writing curriculum is like no other!  We integrate subjects across the curriculum to give students a multitude of opportunities to write.  We teach students how to write for a variety of purposes, applying grammatical and mechanical skills, and show them how to write a well-written paper through a spiral approach we create writers that are college-ready.

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Lucy Calkins, "In her role as the Founding Director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, a New York City-based organization that has influenced literacy instruction around the globe for more than thirty years, Lucy has developed a learning community of brilliant and dedicated teacher educators who have supported hundreds of thousands of teachers, principals, superintendents, and policy-makers in schools that bear their distinctive mark: a combination of joy and rigor in the classrooms, and entire school communities—teachers, principals, parents, kids—who wear a love of reading and writing on their sleeves.", has been whom we have modeled our writing curriculum around.  We look at what her main goals are for students:

help them to grasp opinion/argument, information, and narrative writing with increasing complexity and sophistication

guide students to attain and exceed expectations 

foster high-level thinking, including regular chances to synthesize, analyze, and critique

develop and refine strategies for writing across the curriculum

support greater independence and fluency through intensive writing opportunities

include strategic performance assessments to help monitor mastery and differentiate instruction

provide a ladder of exemplar texts that model writing progressions across grade levels, K–8

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Kindergarten through 2nd grade-

•  focus on free writing

•  writing for different purposes

• learn grammar

• sentence formation/paragraph formation

•  how to make writing rich with details.

 

Writing Program 3 in 1
 

3rd- 5th grade-

•   focus on transitions from paragraph to paragraph

•  thesis writing

•  continue to write for a variety of purposes

•  look deeper into editing and how to incorporate their prior knowledge of spelling, grammar, and proofreading skills into the editing process.