All students are actively involved during all four blocks. Students gain a firm foundation for emergence into more complex processes of reading, writing, and speaking. Children learn comprehension strategies Children build reading fluency. Self-Selected Reading Block Children build fluency in reading. Children practice reading skills.
Children build confidence as readers.
Children read for enjoyment. Block Children read, spell, and use high frequency words correctly. Children learn patterns of spelling and decoding words. Writing Block Children build fluency in writing. Children refine and apply phonics in writing.