Village Glen Elementary is an innovative program that serves students Kindergarten through 6th grade, promoting social and personal well-being and strong academic achievement. Village Glen fosters students’ learning through innovative and specialized instruction provided within small structured classrooms. The team of teachers at Village Glen is a group of dynamic, highly qualified teachers who hold California teaching credentials in Special Education. Village Glen follows the California State Framework and Content Standards, utilizing state adopted texts and curriculum.
Students receive direct, intensive instruction in reading, language arts, writing and math that is differentiated to meet their individual needs. Students are motivated through interactive, hands-on lessons that develop their foundational academic skills. Lessons target their areas of need while enriching and building upon areas of strength. In the core subject areas of science and social studies, the California State Content Standards are followed at each grade level.
Village Glen uses state adopted Literacy programs. These programs provide a foundation for reading and language arts instruction by focusing on phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition, spelling, vocabulary, morphology, grammar and writing. Along with these skills, Village Glen places an emphasis on building reading comprehension and higher order thinking skills. Comprehension strategies are systematically and directly taught to help students develop the ability to make predictions, construct images, use prior knowledge, make inferences, ask questions, get clarification and summarize. Through participatory, hands-on, small group activities, students also build their listening and speaking skills.
Along with our core reading curriculum, the Elementary program utilizes research based intervention programs and supplementary programs to target students’ specific areas of need. These programs include Language!, Read Naturally, Voyager, SRA Direct Instruction, SRA Language for Learning, Visualizing and Verbalizing, LiPS, Seeing Stars, Junior Great Books, Scholastic Reading Counts!, Orton-Gillingham, Fast ForWord, and Earobics. Village Glen uses Step up to Writing and Handwriting without Tears for working on writing and handwriting skills. Village Glen strives to give students a strong foundation in reading and develop students who are not only good at reading but enjoy it as well!
Students at Village Glen build math skills sequentially through innovative curriculum that promotes hands-on practice, visual strategies and the use of technology. Students work on building their math fluency, calculation, reasoning and problem solving skills while also integrating and generalizing math concepts to real life applications. Students progress through basic number sense and numerical operations to fractions, decimals, percents, geometry, different systems of measurements, as well as data analysis with ratios, graphs, and equations.
At Village Glen, students are also taught strategies to assist them with executive functioning, organizational, management and self-help skills from Kindergarten through 6th grade in order to foster independence and success within the school environment. Village Glen accommodates as necessary to meet students’ needs through multi-modal teaching, visual strategies, preferential seating, extended time on assignments, schedules and routines, preparation for transitions, increased time to process verbal language, sensory supports and strategies, graphic organizers, redirection, comprehension checks, peer and adult modeling, technology, clarification of directions, and movement breaks.
