Reading Curriculum
Kumon Reading is a balanced program harnessing the best practices in reading instruction. It’s designed to develop core skills; from understanding the sounds that make up words to the summary and critique of complex reading passages. Kumon students ultimately learn to comprehend a wide variety of texts and gain the fluency and mastery needed to compose clear, concise and correct written English.
A Well-Rounded Approach
Kumon takes a holistic approach to reading. Kumon incorporates phonics and sight recognition. Skills like penmanship and pronunciation are developed concurrently. Later, fundamentals like sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation are introduced in the context of reading exercises and supplemental reading. Students continually build their vocabulary and strengthen their comprehension. Thus, the program sequentially nurtures the skills and critical reasoning abilities they will need to identify, organize, express and interpret written ideas. These are precisely the tools they will need to cope with critical reading at the high school level and beyond.
It's Not Just Reading
The advantages of developing the critical reading skills nurtured by Kumon go far beyond the school subject of English. Such skills are ultimately required for every academic subject your child will pursue and are also extremely useful in important test-taking situations.
Reading Curriculum Levels
Word Building
- Look, Listen & Repeat
- Reciting Words with Pictures
- Letter Sounds
- Consonant Combinations & Vowel Sounds
- Advanced Vowel Sounds & Advanced Sounding Out
- Function of Words, Reading Aloud
Sentence Building
- Sentence Structure, Sentence Topics, Thought Sequence
- Subject & Predicate
- Comparing & Contrasting
- Contruction Sentences
Paragraph Building
- Organizing Information
- Combining Sentences
- Main Idea & Paragraphs
- Clauses
- Reason & Result
Summary
- Sentence Analysis, Paraphrase, Theme
- Passage Organization
- Persuasion
Critique
- Critical Reading
- Elements of Leterature
- Interpretation