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Lower
School Division
Goals and Objectives
- To
enhance each child's ability to read fluently, critically and enthusiastically.
- To
provide the child with the phonics skills necessary to decode the words
he/she meets in his/her reading.
- To
expand the child's sight word, speaking, and listening vocabularies.
- To
teach the child to print and to write in cursive script.
- To
teach the child strategies which will enable him/her to read with greater
understanding.
- To
introduce the basic elements of literary style and some of the ways
non-fiction writing is organized around a topic.
- To
introduce highlighting, note taking and outlining as ways to locate
and organize information.
- To
familiarize children with both classic and contemporary children's literature.
- To
introduce children to literature of diverse cultures and points of view.
- To
provide enjoyable and various reading experiences for each child.
- To
develop those habits of work and study, which will help each student
realize his/her potential.
- To
introduce children to the use of a word processing program
- To
enable each child to express his/her ideas accurately and imaginatively
in writing.
- To
provide opportunities for many different types of writing both fiction
and non-fiction.
- To
develop strong writing skills through the study of spelling, grammar,
capitalization and punctuation.
- To
give each child an opportunity to have his/her writing published in
classroom anthologies.
- To
carefully assess each child's progress in the attainment of reading
skills through a systematic program of in-house testing.
- To
prepare each child to meet the challenges of the ongoing grades.
- To
foster in each child the habit of reading as a lifelong pleasure.
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