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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

In the early grades, literacy learning is multi-faceted and integrated throughout the day. Students develop phonemic awareness, phonics skills, spelling patterns, and knowledge of high-frequency words. During writing workshop, they generate ideas, plan across pages, and elaborate using pictures, labels, and early sentences—progressing to structured narratives, opinion pieces, and informational writing based on their own experiences.
Reading Highlights:
  • Emphasis on the reading process with fiction and nonfiction
  • Phonics: explicit instruction in letter-sound relationships, spelling patterns, and high-frequency words
  • Decoding: word-solving and self-monitoring
  • Comprehension: summarizing, predicting, connecting, inferring
  • Fluency: appropriate pace, phrasing, intonation, and expression

Writing Highlights:
  • Writing process: plan, draft, revise, edit, publish
  • Genres: personal narrative, informational, opinion, fiction, poetry
  • Writing conventions: phonics/word work, spelling, punctuation, capitalization
  • Handwriting: Handwriting Without Tears – printing
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975 North San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
The School admits students of any race, color, and national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the School. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national and ethnic origin, in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, tuition assistance programs, and athletic and other School-administered programs.