Curriculum

__**SRA Connecting Math Concepts**__ Connecting Math Concepts introduces ideas gradually and teaches students the connections between concepts. Focusing on the big ideas of mathematics, Connecting Math Concepts teaches explicit strategies that enable students to master difficult ideas such as ratios, proportions, probability, functions, and data analysis. Detailed explanations and guided practice move students toward independent work, ensuring that students gain success and confidence as mathematical thinkers. -www.sra.com

__**SRA Corrective Reading (Decoding)**__ Program Features: -www.sra.com
 * Research-based direct instruction teaching model
 * Direct teaching of critical skills and strategies to accelerate progress
 * Frequent interactions between teacher and students to maximize time spent learning
 * Teacher modeling and demonstration to boost student confidence and success
 * Guided and independent practice and application to gradually transfer responsibility for learning
 * Adequate practice and review to develop deep mastery of skills and concepts

__**Lindamood Bell Visualizing/Verbalizing**__ The Nancibell® Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking® (V/V®) Program successfully stimulates concept imagery. Individuals become able to image gestalts to improve their language comprehension, reasoning for critical thinking, and expressive language skills. -www.ganderpublishing.com

__**University of Kansas Sentence Writing Strategy**__ The //Sentence Writing Strategy// program comprises two parts: //Fundamentals in the Sentence Writing Strategy// and //Proficiency in the Sentence Writing Strategy.// Together these components constitute a strategy for recognizing and writing 14 sentence patterns with four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. The program consists of two products: an Instructor's Manual and a Student Lessons Manual. The Instructor's Manual features a systematic sequence of instructional procedures; the Student Lessons Manual features exercises that correspond to instructional procedures. Research results showed that students wrote an average of 65 percent complete sentences on the pretest and an average of 88 percent complete sentences on the posttest. -www.ku-crl.org/sim/strategies/sws_proficiency.shtml