Reading Overview
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Vision
To equip students to enjoy lifelong reading, to analyze and interpret texts in a variety of genres, to evaluate all that they read from a biblical worldview, and to become effective communicators.
Goals
- To foster the joy of reading
- To differentiate instruction with reading groups to meet the instructional needs of individual students
- To integrate a systematic phonics approach to decoding and word-work instruction
- To teach vocabulary in context
- To promote fluency through silent and oral practice to ensure accuracy and automaticity
- To enhance comprehension through knowledge-building selections
- To develop discernment by evaluating literature from a biblical worldview