Curriculum

Reading Program K - 2

Our K - 2 have work with two different reading programs.  One program will offer evidence-based literacy practices and the second will offer phonological awareness.

 
 

Superkids

Superkids is a systematic literacy program. The Superkids Reading Program captivates students from the start with tales of the Superkids. In Kindergarten, the kids are introduced to 12 Superkids, who each have their own personalities and interests. Superkids is a comprehensive English language arts curriculum crafted for grades K–2 using evidence-based literacy practices. This proven-effective program follows a unique systematic and explicit instructional path through engaging, increasingly complex text. 
 
 

Heggerty Program

We also use Heggerty: 
 
Heggerty is a program for Phonological Awareness lessons. Phonological awareness allows children to recognize and work with the sounds of language. We practice rhyming, building compound words, listening for the beginning and end sound in a word, counting how many words are in a sentence, changing the words/sound in a word and listening for the middle sound.
 
These skills are so important to help your child to learn to read and write. We will send home information after each unit for how you can help reinforce what we learned at home.

 

Third Grade:

TC running records help give the kids a range of levels from which to choose a Just Right Book.  The levels also helps parents be able to see which books work for their children when they shop for books outside of the classroom library.

The read aloud used during Reading Workshop help the students to share, discuss and eventually write about their reading.  We have rich conversations about characters and what they are doing, as well as learning how to find evidence within the text that supports our ideas. 

Acadience is also being used as a screener.  

 

Fourth Grade

This year students are expected to be at levels S/T.   We use the Teacher's College Running Records. Their reading grade is partly determined by their reading level, but it is also based on how they do on end of unit assessments and classwork. 

 

Fifth Graders

This year students are expected to be at levels V by the end of the school year.  Our Fifth Graders are using Teachers College Benchmark Independent Reading Levels. 

Their reading grade is partly determined by their reading level, but it is also based on how they do on end of unit assessments and classwork. 

 

Reading Resources

SORA

Sora is an award-winning digital reading app that empowers K-12 students to discover age-appropriate ebooks, audiobooks and more from their school library.

https://soraapp.com/welcome

Sora Reading Guide (example)

https://www.aguafria.org/cms/lib/AZ01902191/Centricity/Domain/92/SORA%20User%20Guide.pdf