K/1 READING GOALS AND CONTENT
The K/1 Reading Program uses a variety of methods to teach reading including guided reading with leveled books and approaches from the phonics and whole language traditions.
Goals for the K/1 Reading Program: We want children to…
- start on the road to reading by developing independent reading skills.
- acquire a love of books and words.
- see and hear good literature at school and at home.
- read for pleasure.
- use books to get information.
- gain meaning from print.
- respond to reading through discussions, writing, and a variety of expressions.
Reading Content.
Reading is a skill, not a subject area. However, there are several skills that also serve as topics around which the K/1 reading curriculum is organized:
- alphabalet knowledge
- phonemic awareness
- concepts of print
- strategies: visual cues, meaning cues, phonemic cues, context cues, phonics, and illustrations
K/1 WRITING GOALS AND CONTENT
Goals for the K/1 Writing Program: We want children to…
- learn that writing is another form of communication.
- write for a variety of purposes: thank you notes, research reports, notes to teacher and notes home, posters in the classroom, their own stories.
- to be confident and independent in their ability to write to communicate (“I can write”).
- make sense: compose sentences (story) that fit together.
- write across the curriculum.
- participate in writing workshops.
- develop a writing community in the classroom.
- develop their own voice and choose their own topics.
- learn from each other as writers and share their writing.
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