Eagle Creek Academy
Preschool & Young Fives
​Language Arts

Recognition: matching upper and lowercase letters

Initial sounds: connecting letters and sounds

Moveable alphabet: making new words

High frequency words: practicing with flashcards

Reading: connecting new ideas to experiences

Communicating: explaining things we know

Children love when their parents come to read

Small muscle control & eye-hand coordination

Tracing: holding the pencil and positioning the paper.

Finger-writing: practicing the strokes

Writing: lines and curves convey meaning

Handwriting practice: preschool through 5th grade

Building confidence so we can ask & answer questions

Practicing using respectful words wherever we go

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Listen as one child reads a popular story, another child reads a story she wrote, and the class dramatizes Three Billy Goats Gruff.

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