Curriculum

Challenging Researched Based Curriculum

MATH: Into Math

Into Math" is a comprehensive curriculum designed to engage students in mathematical learning from kindergarten through eighth grade. Grounded in the latest research and aligned with rigorous standards, Into Math fosters conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application skills essential for mathematical success. Through interactive lessons, real-world problem-solving scenarios, and differentiated instruction, students develop a strong foundation in mathematics while building critical thinking and collaboration skills. With a focus on both mastery and growth, Into Math empowers students to explore, reason, and communicate mathematically, preparing them for future academic challenges and real-world problem-solving.

SPELLING & PHONICS: Magnetic Reading

Magnetic Reading is a dynamic phonics program designed to ignite a love for reading while building strong foundational skills in developing readers. Phonics is a fundamental component of early literacy education, focusing on the relationship between letters (graphemes) and their sounds (phonemes). Key elements of phonics instruction include:

Letter-Sound Correspondence: Teaching the association between letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent. For example, understanding that the letter 'b' makes the sound /b/.
Phonemic Awareness: Developing the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. Activities may include rhyming, blending, segmenting, and manipulating sounds.
Decoding Skills: Teaching strategies to sound out and blend letters to pronounce words. This involves applying knowledge of letter-sound relationships to read unfamiliar words.
Word Recognition: Building a sight vocabulary of high-frequency words and teaching strategies to recognize words quickly and accurately.
Spelling Patterns and Rules: Introducing common spelling patterns and rules that help students predict and spell words correctly.
Fluency: Developing the ability to read text accurately, quickly, and with expression, which enhances comprehension.
Systematic Instruction: Providing structured and sequential lessons that gradually increase in complexity, starting from basic sound-symbol relationships to more advanced phonics rules and patterns.
Application in Reading and Writing: Integrating phonics skills into meaningful reading and writing activities to reinforce learning and promote transfer of skills.

Magnetic reading helps students become proficient readers by equipping them with the essential skills needed to decode words and comprehend text independently.

Through engaging activities, leveled readers, and interactive technology tools, Magnetic Reading cultivates confident readers who can apply their skills across various texts and contexts.

WRITING AND GRAMMAR: Benchmark (Grades K-5)

Benchmark Writing and Grammar utilizes student-friendly goals with multi-step strategies, mini-lessons, ample writing time, and opportunities for constructive feedback. Multiple mentor texts on the same topic and genre are included. Grammar is taught via mini following a recursive approach that connects grammar to writing and strengthens students’ process, style, and craft.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS: Benchmark (Grades K-2)

Aligned with Science of Reading research, Benchmark is a core language arts program that provides a cohesive structure for the development of literacy skills and content knowledge.

LANGUAGE ARTS (Grades 2-8), SOCIAL STUDIES (Grades K-8), SCIENCE, ART, MUSIC: Core Knowledge

CORE KNOWLEDGE

World Compass Academy employs the Core Knowledge Scope and Sequence to guide and direct the content taught at each grade level. The Core Knowledge Scope and Sequence is designed to be:

Coherent
The Core Knowledge Sequence is predicated on the realization that what children are able to learn at any given moment depends on what they already know – and, equally important, that what they know is a function of previous experience and teaching.

Cumulative
Core Knowledge provides a clear outline of content to be learned grade by grade so that knowledge, language, and skills build cumulatively from year to year. This sequential building of knowledge not only helps ensure that children enter each new grade ready to learn, it also helps prevent the repetitions and gaps that so often characterize current education.

Content-Specific
By clearly specifying important knowledge in language arts, history, geography, math, science, and the fine arts, the Core Knowledge Sequence presents a practical answer to the question, “What do our children need to know?”

Learn More about Core Knowledge:
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LITERACY CURRICULUM TRANSPARENCY

Click on the Literacy Curriculum Transparency Icon to view the Literacy Curriculum Transparency dashboard. This dashboard provides stakeholders a state, district, school, and grade level view of literacy instructional Core, Supplemental, Intervention programming, services and supports, the number of students who have READ plans, and the number of students who have achieved reading competency.