In the three years that the program has been implemented in our classes, we have seen a tremendous difference in our students in language acquisition and in their social reasoning and understanding.
—Principal
In the classrooms teachers use:
- Teachers tell oral stories and use rhymes, chaining rhymes and poems to develop children’s narrative ability
- Teachers will read pre-selected literature to develop children’s ability to interpret meaning and develop social reasoning
- Pose provided questions after reading book
- Children will work individually and in small groups doing retells, written retells, representations
- Large group storytelling
- Large group reading
- Individual and small groups