Your Child’s Future Depends on Strong Reading Skills

During the early elementary years, K12’s curriculum focuses on:

• Phonics instruction that teaches the relationship between sounds and letters, which helps students decode words and fosters early reading skills.
• Sight word recognition, which introduces frequently used words that don’t necessarily follow phonetic rules and helps improve reading fluency.
• Vocabulary building that exposes students to a rich vocabulary through diverse texts and materials and enhances their comprehension and language skills.
• Comprehension strategies that guide students to understand, interpret, and analyze texts to foster critical thinking and a deeper understanding of the material.
• Reading aloud and shared reading that promotes language development, phonemic awareness, and overall reading skills.
• Reading workshops and independent reading, which allow students to explore texts independently and in group settings, encouraging a love for reading and a deeper engagement with various literary genres.

Students at K12-powered schools have access to a variety of supplemental resources to help with reading, including:

• Minecraft Education, which features immersive library worlds based on the U.S. Library of Congress. Students interact with videos, story characters and complete standards-aligned build challenges that keep them engaged and excited to learn.
• Educational software for reading remediation that personalizes instruction and mastery-based activities to make learning to read an exciting adventure for every student.
• Stride Skills Arcade, an award-winning learning solution that customizes practice sessions to each child’s needs and rewards learning with games.