GrapeSEED Curriculum Components

Ensure Efficient Learning

The GrapeSEED curriculum integrates vocabulary and language expressions using songs, action activities, chants, poems, and stories to ensure efficient learning. It consistently balances the amount of new information being presented with the amount of previously covered information being reviewed, providing practice and repetition content that leads efficiently to fluency. Additionally, GrapeSEED Repeated Exposure and Practice (REP) provides supplemental practice that deepens comprehension.

Shared Reading Poems & Big Books

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Shared Reading teaches phonics principles, such as phoneme and phonogram awareness, as well as the concepts of print. Poems introduce a new letter and teach the student to hear and recognize a specific sound at the beginning, middle, and end of words. Big books foster student awareness of phonetic principles, proper pronunciation, and natural expression, while also teaching high frequency words, basic vocabulary words, and concepts of print.

Phonogram Cards

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Learning phonograms and understanding how they come together to make words lay the foundation for future reading skills. Phonogram Cards help students focus on the sounds of the English language. Students are expected to air write and to learn the stroke order, name, and sound of each letter of the alphabet

Vocabulary Picture Cards

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Vocabulary Picture Cards are important in teaching new vocabulary words, and for making it easy for students to learn the meaning of nouns, adjectives, and opposites. Vocabulary Picture Cards allow for quick assessment of student progress on proper pronunciation and natural intonation.

Stories

A card with a girl and a dog on it is sitting on a table.

Stories provide an opportunity for daily repetition and expand students` vocabulary and language functions with various sentence structures. Each Unit comes with a Story Dictionary, which reviews words and language functions from the previous Unit. Reading Stories facilitates discussions and allows for comprehension questions that build students` confidence and communicative ability.

Songs

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Songs are a fun and effective way to teach vocabulary and expressions. All Songs are designed to introduce vocabulary and language functions within the learning objectives. When combined with pictures and gestures, students` understanding of the new concepts will increase when they hear similar phrases repeated in other contexts.

Chants

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Chants contain critical expressions necessary for communicating in English and provide a natural context for learning most language functions. Chants are designed to be learned in the same style as a regular conversation, helping students speak with natural inflection and intonation.

Repeated Exposure and Practice (REP)

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REP extends each student's English exposure beyond the classroom with specifically designed online content that provides fun and exciting practice. Practice is important because it ensures the repetition and exposure to core language functions and patterns students need for increasing fluency. In every playlist, students engage in “Show What You Know” activities giving them immediate feedback on their language acquisition. 

Action Activities

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Action Activities teach specific actions with a physical response—the principle behind Total Physical Response (TPR). Action Activities help students to begin thinking in English, and they can respond physically to English before their verbal abilities have developed.

Writers

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Writers are used to teach students how to write simple, phonetically-decodable words by assembling two or more phonograms. By saying the words as they write them, students also learn to instantly recognize the words, helping them become more fluent readers and writers