Language Arts

Language Arts incoroprates phonics, reading, and writing. Kindergarten students receive 1 hour and 40 minutes of Language Arts instuction each day. Anne Arundel County Public Schools uses The Open Court curriculum which is aligned with Maryland's Voluntary State Curriculum.

Open Court Language Arts is broken into three parts: Green Band, Red Band, and Blue Band. Green Band also known as Sounds and Letters consists sounds and letters and language, phonemic awareness, letter recognition, how the alphabet works, and phonics. Red Band also known as Reading and Responding focuses on print awareness, literature appreciation, and reading and writing connections. Blue Band also known as writing incoporates journal writing and the main idea that what we say can be written, and what we write can be read.

Kindergarten students will be introduced to 8 units this year. Our first unit will be SCHOOL. During this unit students will able to understand how this theme relates to their own life through stories, discussions, and writing. Students will have a chance to bring in items for our concept/question board. An interactive bulletin board where students post questions about the unit and concepts they already know. Concepts they could bring in could be a newspaper article on school or book.

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