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Literacy

Elementary Division – literacy

Literacy is the ability to read, write, and comprehend information, essential for effective communication. It helps individuals receive education and make decisions based on information. The goal is to educate students to increase their literacy skills so they can understand and utilize information more effectively.

Literacy

  • Create a positive attitude towards reading, writing, speaking and listening
  • Provide clear and consistent literacy instruction throughout the school
  • Assist students in becoming confident in their communication ability, both oral and written
  • Display cultural empathy by valuing languages from other countries and cultures
  • Ensure children have a balanced and creative literacy curriculum that fosters critical thinking
  • Educate and inspire our students creativity through literacy
  • Develop students’ mindfulness in regards to their literacy growth and progress
  • Prepare students for an ever-changing world by including technology in literacy instruction

Speaking & Listening

  • Speaking and Listening in Lower Elementary School (K – Grade 2)
    • Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
    • Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
  • Speaking and Listening in Upper Elementary School (Grades 3 – 5)
    • Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
    • Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
    • Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

Reading

  • Reading in Lower Elementary School (K – Grade 2)
    • Students are building their pre-reading and beginning reading skills through a focus on rhyme, repetition, phonics, sight words and comprehension skills. We engage students in talking about text to build communication skills. We use a variety of texts to teach these skills. We teach our students to use a variety of strategies for decoding unfamiliar words. We work towards making good independent reading choices and to begin thinking critically and analyzing text.By the end of Grade 2, our goal is for students to be able to independently read and sustain reading a text with two to three sentences per page and with pictures to support meaning.
  • Reading in Upper Elementary School (Grades 3 – 5)
    • Students in Grades 3-5 are developing more fluent and independent reading skills. While we continue to teach vocabulary and word recognition strategies, we shift our focus towards comprehension of increasingly complex texts. By the end of Grade 5, our goal is for students to be able to read and think critically about age-appropriate chapter books, including texts with figurative language, long sentences and less common vocabulary.