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KinderCorner
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Do you want your kindergartners to
discover a lifelong love of learning? Bring the Success
for All Foundation’s KinderCorner program to your
school! KinderCorner is a research-based and research-proven
full-day kindergarten program that provides children
with experiences that prepare them for success in primary
grades.
KinderCorner fosters the development
of children’s language, literacy, math, 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.
KinderCorner is designed as a full-day
program but can be adapted for half-day implementations.
welcomes children into the classroom to begin
the day with reading, writing, and other meaningful
activities.
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.
promotes phonemic awareness and increases vocabulary
related to the theme through rhymes, songs, and games.
engages children in wonderful, age-appropriate
literature as they make predictions, recall events,
and learn new, theme-related vocabulary.
engages children in problem solving, exploring
materials, experimenting, observing, and recording.
connects math to everyday life. All the activities
center around an interactive bulletin board.
enhances children’s interpersonal, self-help,
and gross motor skills through peer and adult-child
interaction.
exposes children to phonics through letter-sound
connections, blending, and segmenting. The KinderRoots
Shared Stories provide a meaningful context to practice
beginning reading skills.
emphasizes number concept awareness and math
skills development, as students construct their own
understanding of mathematics.
provides poetry or beautiful prose filled with
imagery that children listen to as they rest.
has children writing about whatever they wish
or responding to theme-related suggestions by the teacher.
reinforces skills and concepts that children
have learned during the day.
promotes family involvement in children’s
education through an activity that links what children
learn at school with their life outside school.
Kindergarten teachers receive all the necessary instructional
materials to implement the KinderCorner program, including:
- A KinderCorner Teacher’s
Manual that provides an overview of the program, including
chapters on the curriculum components, teaching reading,
teaching strategies, family and teacher support, and
assessment.
- Sixteen 2-Week Unit Theme Guides,
the backbone of KinderCorner. Theme Guides provide
daily lesson guides, materials lists, objectives,
vocabulary, a detailed description of each component,
and a letter for parents.
- Four comprehensive kits containing
children’s books, puzzles, and other manipulative
materials that introduce and support the thematic
concepts and vocabulary of each theme.
- Big Books with bright, beautiful
photographs and illustrations that provide support
for instruction on concepts of print as well as thematic
concepts. Small black and white student copies of
each of these Big Books go home with the children
so that they can read them with family.
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19 KinderCorner “Shared Stories.” A powerful
literacy strand includes colorful stories with decodable
text. Children’s consumable versions help them
build a library at home as they master reading.
- Optional classroom videos/DVDs
linked to the reading program. These create memorable
images of vocabulary, sound/letter correspondences,
sound blending, and reading strategies.
- Rhyme Cards, Phonics Picture Cards,
Activity Cards, and Posters support instruction of
new concepts, concepts of print, and/or the children’s
practice of skills, e.g., sorting, classifying, and
so on.
- Stories and Rhymes CDs that provide
the children with additional opportunities to listen
to some of the stories that they have heard during
Story Tree. The children can “read along”
as the CDs provide a signal when to turn the page.
The rhymes and songs from Rhyme Time encourage the
children to recite or sing along, enhancing phonemic
awareness and vocabulary development.
- Math Home Link pages that the children
take home to practice their math skills.
Use the following link(s) to browse sample lessons from
KinderCorner.
KinderCorner
- sample lesson
Your KinderCorner Coach builds a partnership with your
school through training sessions, onsite coaching, scheduled
telephone meetings, quarterly progress reports, and
informal telephone support. Training sessions are developed
in conjunction with school leaders and are customized
to the needs of your staff.
A rich, active initial training prepares teachers to
begin implementing the program.
- 3 onsite training days are scheduled
in the late summer for teachers, assistants, and administrators.
- Training outlines the objectives
of KinderCorner and prepares staff to begin implementing
the program.
As the school year begins, school/district leaders and
your KinderCorner Coach will develop specific instructional
goals and outcomes. Each school receives:
- Quarterly monitoring of progress
toward school-wide goals.
- Periodic sessions to examine data
with leadership and staff to establish targets and
interventions for the following quarter.
As the year progresses, you’ll have a variety
of ways to work with your KinderCorner Coach to review
your progress and refine your goals. Each school receives:
- 3 half-day onsite support
visits over the year at each school (based on 3 classrooms
per school). Each visit consists of classroom visits,
trouble-shooting, data interpretation, and goal setting.
- 4 half-day joint training sessions
with other schools in the cluster. Training sessions
include topics such as classroom environment and management,
student portfolio assessment, and/or facilitating
Learning Labs.
- 4 follow-up telephone meetings
with each school. These quarterly meetings provide
teachers added support for their implementation of
the program through further training, troubleshooting,
goal setting and help with assessment issues.
Do you want to learn more about KinderCorner? Please
call and talk to one of our staff members at 1-800-548-4998,
ext.2372, or fill out the information
request form online. We can provide documentation
to demonstrate how Success for All programs are aligned
with your state's educational objectives.
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