For English Language Arts, we follow the "Sounds Sensible" program.
Sounds Sensible® provides hands-on instruction in the most reliable indicators of reading success: phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and understanding letter-sound relationships, as well as handwriting.
Lesson Steps
Step 1: Listening
Focuses students' attention on sounds in words, develops listening skills, builds background knowledge, expands oral vocabulary, and develops familiarity with print concepts.
Step 2: Rhyming
Develops students' ability to identify and manipulate rhyme through activities such as rhyme identification, categorization, providing, and matching.
Step 3: Segmentation
Builds awareness of the one-to-one correspondence between oral and written words. Segmentation and deletion activities progress from sentences, to compound words, to syllables, down to phonemes.
Step 4: Phoneme-Grapheme Relationships
Teaches letter name, its sound, and correct form for manuscript writing.
Step 5: Dictation
Develops students ability to connect a phoneme to its symbol in written form.
For Math, we follow the "Number Worlds" program.
Number Worlds allows teachers to develop critical math concepts with routine lesson plans, integrated project-based learning, and a guide for facilitating differentiated learning.
This program provides:
- data driven multi-level instructional support
- research proven instruction
- diagnostic screening and placement
- ongoing assessment and reporting