Scope and Sequence of Little Learners
Pathways for Preschool
Circle Time: In the Big Red Barn
Large-group activity; Language and vocabulary skills
Prereading: A-B-C Time
Print awareness; Letter recognition; Auditory discrimination
Prereading: Colors Are Fun!
Color recognition
Prereading: Rhyme Time
Language expression; Auditory discrimination; Dramatizations
Listening and Literature: Once Upon a Time
Tales in the Barnyard stories; Read-aloud suggestions; Listening skills and visual memory
Premath: 1, 2, 3, Go!
Counting and number recognition; Sorting and sequencing
Premath: Look Up, Look Down
Opposites and positional words
Premath: Show Me a Shape
Shape recognition; Large motor-skill development; Following directions; Creative movement
Environment: Let’s Discover!
Science and observation skills; Hands-on learning
Arts: Let’s Create!
Creative expression; Hand-eye coordination
Music: Sing with Me
Singing and listening; Moving and playing
Motor: A Hop, Skip, and a Jump
Social interaction
Social: Happy Habits
Manners, habits, and social training
Cooking: Yummy in My Tummy
Cooking and following directions; Sensory and language experiences
Footsteps for Fours
Prereading
Language acquisition and development; Recognition of alphabet letters; Phonemic awareness of alphabet sounds /a/ to /z/; Letter-sound recognition of medial short-vowel sounds; initial and final consonants; Optional beginning reading strand for eager learners
Listening and Literature
Traditional literature; realistic and fanciful prose and poetry; nursery rhymes; Vocabulary development and enrichment; Auditory memory; sound by direction, pitch, tempo, and volume; rhyming words; Listening questions to develop comprehension; Dictation of group writing experiences; sentence completions; story sequencing
Handwriting
Correct posture, pencil hold, and paper placement; Prewriting skills; finger tracing and pencil tracking of left-to-right, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig-zag, and curved lines; Uppercase and lowercase PreCursive alphabet; numbers 0–12
Mathematics
Number recognition 0–20; counting to 100; shape recognition; pattern sequencing; color sequencing; Calendar, clock, coins, measurement, dot patterns, number sets, number line, ordinals, fractions; Position words
Social Studies
Concepts of God’s plan for the child and his family; Patriotism, patriotic symbols, holidays; Community helpers, transportation
Science
Environment: seasonal changes of plants and animals; animal families and animal homes; Hands-on: experiments, cooking, weather, space, and magnets
Art
Art suggestions and craft activities correlated with unit themes
Motor
Fine and gross motor development activities; games, action rhymes, and action songs
Music
Songs, rhymes, and musical games; Additional music strand to complement lessons through movement, rhythm instruments, retelling of stories, games, and songs
Focus on Fives
Language Arts
Prereading
Print awareness: left-to-right eye progression; visual discrimination; visual memory; Reasoning; classifying; sequencing size and shape relationships; Rhyming; awareness of author; picture reading; Listening comprehension; Comparing; Following directions; perceiving concepts, such as up/down, hard/soft; Alphabet recognition: phonemic awareness
Phonics and Word Perception
Units 1–3: Letter-sound association—consonants and short vowels; words with closed syllable phonograms (examples: _it, _at); plural words with s and es; compound words; possessive words; Units 4–6: Letter-sound association—consonant blends and digraphs, long vowels; r-influenced vowels; special vowel combinations; vowel patterns for long vowels (examples: _oke, _o, _oat)
Early Reading Skills
Comprehension; Predicting outcomes; answering questions after silent reading; sequencing events; developing vocabulary; Perceiving relationships; distinguishing reality from fantasy; Matching words and pictures; matching sentences and pictures; reading short stories; Oral communication and oral reading; Discussion; action rhymes; pantomime; retelling stories; reading phonics stories orally
Composition
Dictating sentence ideas for individual composition; completing sentence starters
Handwriting
Letter formation; principles of slant; alignment; spacing; pencil hold; posture
Related Arts
Art
Drawing; painting; making crafts to match the unit themes of the lessons (examples: puppets, papier-mâché pig)
Motor Skills
Encouraging fine-motor skills through prewriting activities, fingerplays, cooking and Learning Center activities, and student activity worksheets; Developing gross-motor skills during simple games and group activities
Music
Traditional and piggyback songs; music games
Heritage Studies
Geography: US landmarks; history: Native Americans, colonial life; culture: families, community helpers, Hispanic culture, Bible times, farming, American celebrations
Science
Appreciating God’s creation; Learning about birds, bugs, magnets, seasons, water, human bodies, weather, rocks, oceans, sun, moon, plants, and animals; Experiencing hands-on activities
Reading
Word Recognition
Application of phonics concepts presented in K5 phonics lessons; Readers 1–16—short vowels, single consonants; Readers 17–34—short vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, long vowels, r-influenced vowels, special vowels; Word families; high-frequency words; compound words; words with suffixes
Comprehension
Picture reading; Questioning to develop higher-order thinking skills; Predict text; make inferences; draw conclusions; predict outcomes; Compare; sequence events; follow directions
Vocabulary
Meaning from context
Literature
Read a variety of genres: family stories, informational articles, fanciful animal stories, poetry, Bible accounts, and realistic fiction; Distinguish reality from fantasy
Silent Reading
Reading for specific information; reading for author’s message
Oral Reading
Communicate message of the author; communicate in a natural manner; Portray a character; Respond to punctuation: period, exclamation point, question mark, quotation marks