LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAMMES
**Five in a Row storybook curriculum
This is a curriculum with story books to build world knowledge and vocabulary and language skills. It also adds in science, social studies, some math, language arts etc. They have stages before 5 and then 5-8 Years and then above. This curriculum is great if you have a child who is years behind their peers in all areas of learning especially language and reading. It’s also fun.
Purchase from Amazon Australia sells the teacher’s guides. The reading books you can buy most online or you can buy the full package from Rainbow Resources in the US – teachers manuals and story books in volumes.
Core Knowledge Foundation units for supporting background knowledge and vocabulary
The Core Knowledge Foundation provides open (FREE) access to content-rich curriculum materials for preschool through grade 8. Grade K- 8 (NZ 1-9Years)
The lower grade language arts units kindergarten to grade 2, which is New Zealand Year 1- 3 include two teacher guides, Anthology and the Supplemental guide. You can choose to use either or combine as the some of the objectives and activities have been adjusted for children with comprehension delays, language delays, ESL learners or kids who need extra support building vocabulary and background knowledge. Both include the read alouds but again the supplementary guides story has been adjusted to make it accessible to all learners making it more inclusive for every student.
This information has been taken directly from Core Knowledge Foundation website – The materials made available for download are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and share (with attribution), but no one is permitted to sell either the original programme, an adaptation of it, or lesson plans that reproduce any part of it.
This is an American Curriculum and some of the history topics reflect this but as you will see there are many topics to choose from to support your child or students in class.
The deb would like to clarify at this stage we are only recommending units to build knowledge and vocabulary not the phonics component as this has not been reviewed.
This document was created by Sharon Scurr founder of the deb in August 2021