Explicit instruction in the foundational reading skills is provided through individual, small group and whole group learning experiences. Through the integration of Common Core English Language Arts Standards (Source: ODE Standards website: Oregon English Language Arts and Literacy), research based practices and the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Into Reading curriculum, students are instructed in all areas of literacy learning:
Phonological Awareness
- Child demonstrates awareness that spoken language is composed of words and their smaller segments of sound.
Print and Alphabet Knowledge
- Child demonstrates an understanding of how print is used (functions of print) and the rules that govern how print works (conventions of print).
- Child identifies letters of the alphabet and produces correct sounds associated with letters.
Phonics & Word Recognition
- Child demonstrates knowledge and application of beginning phonics and word analysis skills in decoding CVC words.
- Child reads common grade-appropriate high-frequency words by sight.
Comprehension and Text Structure
- Child demonstrates an understanding of narrative text structure through storytelling/re-telling and identifying story elements: character, setting, major events.
- Child demonstrates an understanding of informational text structure through identifying main idea and key details of a text.
- Child asks and answers questions about a book that was read aloud.
Writing
- Child writes for a variety of purposes using increasingly sophisticated representation, conventions, organization and topic development of narrative, informational and opinion modes.
Attending and Understanding
- Child attends to communication and language from others.
- Child understands and responds to increasingly complex communication and language from others.
Communicating and Speaking
- Child varies the amount of information provided to meet the demands of the situation.
- Child understands, follows, and uses appropriate social and conversational rules.
- Child expresses self in increasingly long, detailed, and sophisticated ways.
Vocabulary
- Child understands and uses a wide variety of words for a variety of purposes.
- Child shows understanding of word categories and relationships among words.
