Our ELA Kindergarten program uses the From Phonics to Reading – Level K curriculum to build strong foundational literacy skills for beginning readers. Through systematic, engaging lessons, children develop essential abilities in phonological awareness, phonics, decoding, high-frequency words, and early writing. This course provides explicit, step-by-step instruction aligned with the Science of Reading. Each week, students participate in short, targeted activities that help them hear, identify, blend, and segment sounds before applying them in reading and writing. The program includes repeated modeling, guided practice, and opportunities to build confidence with decodable text that matches the skills being taught. In addition to phonics and phonemic awareness, students learn letter formation, spelling patterns, and high-frequency words through consistent routines. They practice encoding words in weekly dictation, read decodable texts to apply new phonics patterns, and complete simple writing tasks that strengthen their early literacy development. Altos Academy’s structured approach ensures students not only learn individual sounds and letters, but also understand how they work together to form words. By building these foundational skills in a clear, sequential manner, young learners develop accuracy, fluency, and confidence as beginning readers.