Early Language Model
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and First Grade
The early language model ensures that sutdents acquire critical skils in the first years of schooling that will lay the basis for later success in reading and other subjects. Many students enter school without a solid foundation in oral language comprehension and expression. In this model, all students become familiar with the foundational vocabulary, background information and sentence structures that allow them to understand and respond appropriately to teachers' instrucitonal language. Instructional programs include Language for Learning and Language for Thinking, which can be used effectively with high-performning preschool students as well as low-performing second grade students or for speakers of English as a second language at various grade levels.
