Students in kindergarten through second grade participate in two separate ELA sessions each day.
Skills: Starting with sounds, students practice their phonemic awareness, handwriting skills, vocabulary, spelling and grammar. Through daily practice, students become aware of the connection between reading and writing, building confidence as they go.
Knowledge: Through complex read-aloud with an emphasis on classroom interactivity, oral comprehension and contextual vocabulary, students start to build their awareness of the world around them, and the way reading skills they're building give them access to it.
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