K-6 Literacy

• Geography World Games includes, among many more, National Geographic Geo Bee Challenge and discovery Channel Geo Game, as well as a link back to the Geography World homepage of related resources.
  • National Geographic Kids
• Parent & After-school Resources
  • ReadWriteThink
• StarChild Learning Center for Young Astronomers is a popular interactive website with information about the solar system organized into appropriate reading levels for elementary students.
  • StarChild
• MightyBook features read-aloud picture books, sing-along songs, video song books, poetry, story-writing and illustrating contests and learning games designed for children ages 2-12.
  • Mightybook

Welcome, Parents and Guardians!

We are pleased to have you as part of the POB community. To support your child's educational journey in English, we encourage you to explore the New York State Department of Education’s website for valuable resources, standards, and guidelines related to English language arts education. This will provide you with important information on what your child is learning, how to support their progress, and how we work together to foster their literacy skills.

Please visit the New York State Department of Education’s English page for more details and to stay informed about key educational standards.

Thank you for being an active partner in your child's learning!

Visit NYS Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standard Webpages

 

Welcome to the POB K-6 Literacy Recommended Books List!

We are excited to share a thoughtfully curated collection of engaging and inspiring books for our young readers in grades K-6. These recommendations are designed to foster a love of reading, spark imagination, and build literacy skills across all age levels.

Whether your child is just beginning their reading journey or exploring more advanced themes, this list includes a variety of genres and topics to captivate every young mind. From heartwarming picture books to adventurous chapter books, there’s something here for everyone.

Happy reading, and let’s keep the joy of storytelling alive in our POB community!

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Dear Families,

Welcome to Writing Workshop! Writing Workshop is an approach to the teaching of writing that lives in graduate school writing programs, in college writing classes, and in your child’s classroom. The aim of Writing Workshop is to help children become powerful, passionate, and independent writers.

In Writing Workshop, class begins with a minilesson, in which the teacher demonstrates a writing strategy that will help children become more powerful writers. Then children go off to work on their writing. Very young writers will write one or two pieces during a single workshop. Older writers will work on a piece over several days or a week. While the children write the teacher works with small groups or confers with individual writers.

Your child will write stories, essays, articles, books, and poetry in the writing workshop. They’ll learn about something called writing process. All professional writers follow a writing process. In writing process, writers collect ideas, they draft, they revise, and they publish. Sometimes they move through this process quickly, and sometimes they take more time for parts of the process.

Your children will have a variety of tools to support them in school and at home. These include:

• Writing strategies - help writers become more powerful. They’ll learn these strategies during Writing Workshop.
• Mentor texts - writers study model texts, which are usually by published writers, to learn more about the art of writing.
• Checklists - our school uses writing checklists from the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. These checklists support children in understanding expectations and setting personal goals.
• Charts and mini-charts - teachers create a record of what they’ve taught, on large posters called charts or in mini-charts. These tools remind children of what they’ve learned.
• Spelling and word charts - children often have personal or class lists of words they are working to spell accurately.

Across the year, our writing curriculum is divided into units of study. A unit of study, might focus on fiction, or essay. At the end of most units of study, we’ll have a publishing celebration.

Mostly, Writing Workshop will help your child develop an identity as a writer. We hope it’s a beautiful, and life-changing experience.