Curriculum

 We provide the following educational building blocks:

Language Arts

Teaching pre-reading skills:

  • Vocabulary

  • Phonetic Awareness

  • Letter Recognition

Reading fluency:

  • Decoding

  • Proper Speed

  • Meaningful Expression

  • Punctuation

Reading Comprehension:

  • Summarizing

  • Sequencing

  • Inferencing

  • Comparing and contrasting 

  • Drawing conclusions

  • Self-questioning

  • Problem-solving

  • Distinguishing between fact and opinion

  • Finding the main idea, important facts, and supporting details

  • Vocabulary

Writing Skills:

  • Developing writing pieces on the sentence, paragraph, and essay level

  • The Writing Process

1: Prewriting. Think and decide. Organize your thoughts and make an outline or use a graphic organizer. Plan what you want to write about.

2: Research (if needed).

3: Drafting. Write.

4: Revising. Make it better. See where you can add more details or explain information further.

5: Editing and Proofreading. Check for spelling, punctuations, sentence structure, and that your writing piece makes sense.

  • Transcription –Writing words, handwriting, and spelling

  • Outlining

  • Vocabulary

  • Organizing -Use of Graphic Organizer

  • Research

  • Genre and Content

  • Grammar

Mathematics

Mathematical Skills:

Making mathematical ideas “real” by using words, pictures, symbols, and objects (like blocks)

  • Measurement

  • Estimation

  • Patterns

  • Problem-solving.

  • Number sense (greater then/less then)

  • Division

  • Addition

  • Subtraction

  • Multiplication

  • Fractions

  • Place Value

  • Word Problems