What Will Happen At
Little Bookworms?
Class Format
Each 75-min. drop-off class is structured around a theme that incorporates high-quality literature, music, movement, hands-on games and follow-up activities that reinforce essential early literacy skills. Through developmentally appropriate and engaging activities, your child will grow and explore the world of language that surrounds them. There are classes geared for 4-5 year old preschoolers and 5-6 year old kindergarten students.
Instructional Focus
Your child will:
* strengthen oral language skills through listening and expressive language activities that support vocabulary development, conversational skills, and fluency.
* build comprehension and narrative skills by listening to stories, discussing characters, making predictions, sequencing events, and retelling and acting them out.
* strengthen phonological awareness (the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words and the greatest predictor of future reading success) by developing word awareness, syllable awareness and rhyming abilities.
* explore phonemic awareness (the individual speech sounds in our language) by focusing on beginning and ending sounds and how sounds are put together to build words.
* build alphabetic knowledge by learning that letters have names, are different from each other and represent specific sounds.
* develop print awareness (an understanding that print has meaning and is connected to spoken language) and print motivation (having an interest and enjoyment of books).
* have fun while learning in a structured, enthusiastic and creative child-centered environment!
Each 75-min. drop-off class is structured around a theme that incorporates high-quality literature, music, movement, hands-on games and follow-up activities that reinforce essential early literacy skills. Through developmentally appropriate and engaging activities, your child will grow and explore the world of language that surrounds them. There are classes geared for 4-5 year old preschoolers and 5-6 year old kindergarten students.
Instructional Focus
Your child will:
* strengthen oral language skills through listening and expressive language activities that support vocabulary development, conversational skills, and fluency.
* build comprehension and narrative skills by listening to stories, discussing characters, making predictions, sequencing events, and retelling and acting them out.
* strengthen phonological awareness (the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words and the greatest predictor of future reading success) by developing word awareness, syllable awareness and rhyming abilities.
* explore phonemic awareness (the individual speech sounds in our language) by focusing on beginning and ending sounds and how sounds are put together to build words.
* build alphabetic knowledge by learning that letters have names, are different from each other and represent specific sounds.
* develop print awareness (an understanding that print has meaning and is connected to spoken language) and print motivation (having an interest and enjoyment of books).
* have fun while learning in a structured, enthusiastic and creative child-centered environment!
**Little Bookworms follows the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks Guidelines for
Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Experiences**