Curriculum Overview

At the elementary school we utilize EL Education for our ELA curriculum.  EL Education focuses on building meaningful learning and background knowledge through using content-rich, authentic texts and read-alouds on real-world topics.  Through their learning modules, students deep dive into topics that naturally enhance their vocabulary and comprehension skills and simultaneously their social emotional learning through building habits of character.  In addition to the EL curriculum, teachers include a daily word work block; at VCES we use the Fundations program, which is developed by Wilson Language Training and based on the science of reading to teach phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, and spelling.  To enrich their ELA learning opportunities, students access iReady Reading and/or ASD Reading, both adaptive online curricula support students with their individual skill needs.  Supplemental curricula that are also utilized in the classrooms include: Reading Mastery Transformations, Expressive Writing, Building Writers, and PCI.    

iReady Classroom Mathematics provides direct instruction on core math concepts, while iReady Personalized Path uses diagnostic data to create individualized, adaptive learning experiences for students online. Reflex is an additional adaptive and individualized online system to build math fact fluency in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts. For science, Science4Us engages K–2 students with interactive lessons, and Gizmos extends interactive learning to students in grades 3–6. ACE (Autism Curriculum Encyclopedia) delivers discrete trial training tailored to individual learning needs.