Reading Overview

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Vision

To equip students to enjoy lifelong reading, to analyze and interpret a variety of genres, to evaluate all that they read from a biblical worldview, and to become effective communicators.

Goals

• Foster a joy of reading
• Differentiate instruction with reading groups to meet the instructional needs of individual students
• Integrate a phonogram approach to phonics teaching and word-work instruction
• Teach vocabulary in context
• Encourage fluency by first reading silently for comprehension and then orally for communication
• Enhance comprehension through literary skills and strategies
• Develop discernment by evaluating literature from a biblical worldview