Classes & Curriculum |
Language Arts at WilsonOur language arts curriculum views language development as the integrated acquisition of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. We believe these are best learned through meaningful contexts, not in isolation. The curriculum provides our students with many opportunities for learning language skills and concepts that are essential for healthy intellectual, emotional and social growth. We use a variety of strategies and materials to ensure we meet the needs of our students from pre-kindergarten through the sixth grade. We expect our students to follow oral directions in increasingly complex tasks, retell stories, discuss literature, ask and answer questions, give oral presentations, and effectively communicate information in both formal and informal settings. Our reading program focuses on developing those skills that enable students to become effective readers, to understand ideas presented in any type of text and to apply those ideas to different contexts. We encourage our students to read frequently and independently for information and pleasure. Writing is developed in conjunction with our reading and speaking curriculum. The children have opportunities to create, express feelings and communicate information in increasingly sophisticated and structured formats. Our students gradually move from the freely expressive writing and invented spelling of the early years to formalized essays in the later years. |