Success For All (SFA) is a wonderful reading program that uses research to design programs and services that help schools better meet the needs of all their students.
KinderCorner, which is the branch of SFA that we use in Kindergarten, fosters the development of children’s language, literacy, interpersonal and self-help skills, science, and social studies concepts. The focus on strong oral language skills, a love of reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, and listening comprehension creates a solid foundation for reading.
Curriculum
Greetings, Readings, & Writings
welcomes children into the classroom to begin the day with reading, writing, and other meaningful activities.
Let’s Get Together
settles children into a sharing time to promote oral language development and a sense of community. They learn vocabulary and thematic concepts for the day.
Rhyme Time
promotes phonemic awareness and increases vocabulary related to the theme through rhymes, songs, and games.
Story Tree
engages children in wonderful, age-appropriate literature as they make predictions, recall events, and learn new, theme-related vocabulary.
Learning Labs
engages children in problem solving, exploring materials, experimenting, observing, and recording.
Snack/Outside/Gross Motor Play
enhances children’s interpersonal, self-help, and gross motor skills through peer and adult-child interaction.
Stepping Stones
exposes children to phonics through letter-sound connections, blending, and segmenting. The KinderRoots Shared Stories provide a meaningful context to practice beginning reading skills.
Let’s Daydream
provides poetry or beautiful prose filled with imagery that children listen to as they rest.
Write Away
has children writing about whatever they wish or responding to theme-related suggestions by the teacher.
Let’s Think About It
reinforces skills and concepts that children have learned during the day.
Home Link
promotes family involvement in children’s education through an activity that links what children learn at school with their life outside school.