Language

2's and 3's Program

• Language and vocabulary development.
• Listening skills.
• Book handling skills.
• Familiar stories and action songs.
• Nursery rhymes.
• Name recognition.
• Mark making.
• Matching simple shapes and symbols.

3's and 4's Program

• Widening use of language and vocabulary in all aspects of classroom life.
• Role and collaborative play.
• Developing listening and participation skills in circle time and discussions.
• Encouragement of a love of books and response to stories from a wide variety of genres.
• Pre-writing, pre-reading, and pencil skills.
• Drawing, mark making, and emergent writing.
• Name recognition.

4's and 5's Program

• Use of language to reflect and communicate information and ideas in a variety of contexts.
• Listening skills and instruction following.
• Repetition and recall of familiar stories and poems.
• Anticipation and prediction in stories.
• Response to a wide variety of genres and authors.
• Pre-writing and pre-reading skills.
• Name recognition.
• Letter recognition and phonic awareness.
• Emergent writing and inventive spelling.
• Beginning of letter formation and writing own name.
• Drawing of pictures to tell stories and record events.