The purpose of language arts instruction is to develop learners who will become proficient and confident readers, writers, speakers and listeners.

In junior kindergarten, students will know, understand or demonstrate an awareness of at a grade level appropriate level:

• How to handle books appropriately
• Enjoyment of being read to in a large group setting and one/one
• How to read own first name
• How to respond and participate in songs, rhymes and finger plays
• How to name most upper case letters
• Rhyming and beginning sounds
• Basic story concepts
• Reading of environmental print, pattern books, names of classmates and family members, etc.
• Writing (may attempt scribbling, copying, temporary spelling, etc.)
• How to write own first name