English Language Arts KG B

The Kindergarten course lays the groundwork for reading and writing. It aims to combine excellent decoding instruction with frequent reading-aloud in order to ensure that students can translate letters into words and make sense of the words they are decoding.Skills lessons address decoding skills, focusing on sounds or phonemes as the primary organizing principle, rather than letters. In phonics instruction, students continue to practice identifying sounds within words and words within sentences, and they continue to learn about tricky words that have sounds that cannot be blended using the letter–sound correspondences students have been taught. Students continue to practice reading using decodable readers that are engaging and fun.Students continue to learn and practice the mechanics of writing as they form lowercase and uppercase letters and answer story questions on activity pages. The course includes daily read-alouds that help students build the background knowledge and vocabulary critical to listening and reading comprehension. Students learn by listening to nursery rhymes, fables, classic tales, and nonfiction texts. While teaching skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking, the course also builds students’ knowledge and vocabulary in literature, history, geography, and science.