Lower School - Pre-First Grade Language Arts

The language arts program encompasses process and content; how we communicate as well as what we communicate. Process includes skills and strategies used in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing. Content includes the ideas, themes, issues, problems, and conflicts found in classical and contemporary literature and other texts. Ideas, experiences, and cultural perspectives we discover in text helps us shape our visions of the world.

Our curriculum, embodying these content standards, will ensure all students are literate and can engage successfully in reading, discovering, creating, and analyzing spoken, written, electronic, and visual texts which reflect multiple perspectives.

Phonics
Reading Fluency
Comprehension
Spelling
Handwriting
The Writing Process

• Prewriting
• Drafting
  
• Revising
  
• Editing
  
• Publishing

Listening/ Speaking
Literature
Viewing / Visual literacy