Students in kindergarten come to class once or twice a week. Sessions are two hours long.
Kindergarten/1st grade students meet regularly with the same credentialed and experienced instructor.
During the two hour session, students engage in mini-games and hands-on activities to teach each concept. During every tutoring session, students learn the following skills and concepts:
phonemic awareness
letter sounds and symbols
word families and rhymes
high frequency words
literary analysis
writing conventions
journal writing
vocabulary
Our Kindergarten/1st Grade Reading and Writing Program is broken up into three units. Each unit is approximately 13 weeks long. It is literature based, so each unit revolves around the literature we read. We cover the following units:
1. Expository Texts: Reading informational texts and practicing reading fluency and comprehension strategies. Writing expository paragraphs, learning the parts of a paragraph and the difference between concrete details, elaborations, and commentary.
2. Narratives: Identifying the beginning, middle and end; identifying the characters, setting, problem, climax, and resolution; distinguishing fantasy and reality; and developing commentary. Snap shot writing, writing publishable short stories with all the elements of literature, and practicing the writing process.
3. Literary Response and Analysis: Response to the elements of literature and author’s purpose through a retelling of their favorite part of the story and through personal reflections.
In each unit, we engage our students in (a) vocabulary enrichment, (b) reading comprehension and analysis, and (c) the writing process. Our curriculum is a process-based methodology. Therefore, even though the three units cover a variety of subject matters, our students use the same process for vocabulary enrichment, reading comprehension and writing for each unit. We believe that the repetition and practice is essential in helping our students grow and learn.
Kindergarten/1st Grade
Reading and Writing Tutoring Program
Students in kindergarten come to class once or twice a week. Sessions are two hours long.
Kindergarten/1st grade students meet regularly with the same credentialed and experienced instructor.
During the two hour session, students engage in mini-games and hands-on activities to teach each concept. During every tutoring session, students learn the following skills and concepts:
Our Kindergarten/1st Grade Reading and Writing Program is broken up into three units. Each unit is approximately 13 weeks long. It is literature based, so each unit revolves around the literature we read. We cover the following units:
1. Expository Texts: Reading informational texts and practicing reading fluency and comprehension strategies. Writing expository paragraphs, learning the parts of a paragraph and the difference between concrete details, elaborations, and commentary.
2. Narratives: Identifying the beginning, middle and end; identifying the characters, setting, problem, climax, and resolution; distinguishing fantasy and reality; and developing commentary. Snap shot writing, writing publishable short stories with all the elements of literature, and practicing the writing process.
3. Literary Response and Analysis: Response to the elements of literature and author’s purpose through a retelling of their favorite part of the story and through personal reflections.
In each unit, we engage our students in (a) vocabulary enrichment, (b) reading comprehension and analysis, and (c) the writing process. Our curriculum is a process-based methodology. Therefore, even though the three units cover a variety of subject matters, our students use the same process for vocabulary enrichment, reading comprehension and writing for each unit. We believe that the repetition and practice is essential in helping our students grow and learn.
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