This tends to make children better listeners and enthusiastic readers and writers. By presenting whole books to children and allowing them to become very familiar with them, children will learn to recognize familiar parts in unfamiliar written matter and begin to pull the process together. The Direct Teaching Technique involves working with small groups of children, reviewing with them the same skills that the Shared Reading Approach has exposed them to. In addition to this, specific vocabulary words and their spelling is taught. By working with small groups, the teacher is also able to better meet the needs of individual children.
Writing is an important part of our children's day.
We want them to understand that writing and reading go hand in hand, using them both as an effective tool of learning. They are encouraged to use all of the skills they have learned in reading as part of their writing experience. Old skills are reviewed and new ones are presented before new practice pages are assigned . Math practice is done both as a group and independently. Children are exposed to a variety of basic computer skills.