Reading

A Balanced Literacy Approach

     The Reading Program at Legacy Elementary is a balanced literacy program. This approach to instruction involves teaching children to use the three cueing systems: meaning, sentence structure, and graphophonics in learning to read. Instruction integrates reading with thinking, writing, listening, and speaking.  

     On behalf of each student the following objectives are set:

· To develop basic skills that enable them to get meaning from print.

· To think critically about what is read.

· To use reading across the curriculum as a tool for learning.

· To experience the rewards and pleasures of reading.

· To become independent writers who write for a variety of purposes.