K English/Language Arts

Building a solid literacy foundation is crucial for kindergarten students. Therefore, we focus on both reading, writing, speaking and listening in kindergarten. Students will study letters including upper and lower case letters and letter sounds. Students also learn how to use context clues to understand new words, and they work to retell the beginning, middle, and end of stories. Kindergarten students also discuss characters and predict outcomes with prompting. As for writing, our students use a combination of drawing, dictating and writing to narrate a story or a true event. Students also learn how to add details to stories and express thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly when speaking.