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Miss Kim

Kimberly brings her experience of over 20 years in the classroom to manage our Young Learners program!  Her personal philosophy about learning especially at the TK/K level is that every moment is a learning opportunity. She uses open ended questions with her students to get them talking without giving too much of her  own input. This helps all students, especially the ones that may be timid about sharing their ideas, to feel confident. She also brings  being a good listener to this program too, because everyone wants to be heard and validated. Children are sponges and absorb it all!  Miss Kim loves doing art activities and making songs to help reinforce whatever we may be learning at that time.


Young Learners: Reading Adventures

This reading class will focus on developing early reading, writing, spelling, and phonics skills using Logic of English, Foundations A as our spine.  We will establish a solid foundation for reading with extensive multi-sensory phonemic awareness activities.  You have to be able to hear all of the different sounds in our words to read well!  Students will learn to read and write lowercase letters a-z and practice decoding short vowel words and consonant blends through multi-sensory games and activities. Young learners will read,  comprehend, and compose words and short sentences with lowercase letters and short vowels. Reading instruction is individualized to the learner through small groups and activities in the class. Each student will receive a  workbook to use in class. Some of the skills we will cover include:

• Blending and segmenting words auditorily (with no printed words)

• Identifying the initial and final sound in a word and match it to the correct single-letter phonogram

• Reading all the sounds for A-Z

• Writing the lowercase alphabet

• Reading consonant-vowel-consonant words (CVC)

• Decoding 80+ high-frequency words with some fluency, and have the tools to decode hundreds more

• Spelling short vowel words

• Reading short vowel words with consonant blends

• Reading and comprehending phrases with lowercase letters and short vowels

Each session will include 3 readers that students will make from their workbooks.


CVC spelling words will also be introduced. Some of the interactive games and activities scheduled are spelling word bowling, rotten egg game, whack a mole, phonogram obstacle course, spelling word ice fishing, and more! In addition, we will target reading comprehension as well as vocabulary through numerous award-winning books to engage young learners in reading, questioning, and talking about fiction and poetry.

 





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