Shared Reading:

Purpose:  To build upon the children's interests and to increase their enjoyment and appreciation of stories, poems, rhymes, and charts.  To demonstrate and develop specific reading behaviors and strategies. 

Shared Reading book used in the first grade classroom

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Guided Reading:

Purpose:  To support and encourage the development of reading strategies at the student's instructional level by using small groups, and modeling reading behaviors in comprehension, word attack skills, and fluency through different genres.

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Writers Workshop:

Purpose:  Provides structured opportunities for students to write in order to learn about the writing process and themselves as authors using self-selected topics.  This process emphasizes pre-writing, drafting, editing, revising, and sharing/publishing.

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Math:

Purpose:  To experience the utility and power of mathematics to become proficient in using and applying fundamental mathematical concepts, skills in numbers, operating geometry and algebra.  The student's will do this through critical thinking, reasoning, resourceful problem solving and computation.

Combinations

• An example of first grade math concepts

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Social Science

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