Language Arts
Prereading: Students will develop print awareness, reasoning skills, phonemic awareness, and listening comprehension through activities like picture reading, classifying, and understanding concepts such as up/down and hard/soft.
Phonics and Word Perception: In Units 1–3, students will learn letter-sound associations for consonants and short vowels, closed syllable phonograms, plural words, compound words, and possessive words. Units 4–6 will cover consonant blends, digraphs, long vowels, r-influenced vowels, and special vowel combinations.
Early Reading Skills: Students will enhance their comprehension, vocabulary, and sequencing abilities by predicting outcomes, answering questions, and distinguishing reality from fantasy. They will also practice reading short stories and engage in oral communication activities like discussion, action rhymes, and retelling stories.
Composition: Students will practice writing by dictating sentence ideas and completing sentence starters.
Handwriting: Focus will be on letter formation, slant, alignment, spacing, pencil hold, and posture.
Reading
Word Recognition: Students will apply phonics concepts from K5 lessons, progressing through Readers 1–34, covering short vowels, consonant blends, digraphs, long vowels, r-influenced vowels, special vowels, word families, high-frequency words, compound words, and words with suffixes.
Comprehension: Students will develop higher-order thinking skills by questioning, predicting text, making inferences, drawing conclusions, comparing, sequencing events, and following directions.
Vocabulary: Students will learn to derive meaning from context.
Literature: Students will read various genres including family stories, informational articles, fanciful animal stories, poetry, Bible accounts, and realistic fiction, and will learn to distinguish reality from fantasy.
Silent Reading: Students will read for specific information and to understand the author’s message.
Oral Reading: Students will communicate the author’s message naturally, portray characters, and respond to punctuation marks like periods, exclamation points, question marks, and quotation marks.
Heritage Studies
Students will learn about US geography, Native American history, colonial life, and various cultural themes such as families, community helpers, Hispanic culture, Bible times, farming, and American celebrations.
Science
Students will explore topics like birds, bugs, magnets, seasons, water, human bodies, weather, rocks, oceans, sun, moon, plants, and animals through hands-on activities.