Reading and writing is a way to communicate across time. We learn about the past, and can send messages to the future. I asked the staff to help me explain how we teach reading and writing at our school. Literacy skills are taught in many ways at our school. Let's start at Kindergarten and move through each grade level.
Kindergarten teachers prepare children to learn to read by introducing letters and sounds.
Children in an extended day kindergarten have extra time to examine and learn how letters make words, and how words are used in reading and writing. First grade books have pictures which are connected to text. Stories are repetitive and predictable. Children learn about rhyming words through songs and chants. Students meet individually with a reading teacher for a half hour daily.