Those students who have been admitted to the Core Literacy Magnet track at Paramount Elementary will be assigned to classrooms where the instruction will be based on a teaching method developed by The Spalding International Foundation. Instruction will follow the guidelines from the manual titled, The Writing Road To Reading.

• An accelerated curriculum, aimed at teaching to the top 1/3 of the class.
• A multisensory (seeing, hearing, speaking, touching) teaching technique where all learning styles are addressed.
• Visual and verbal mastery of 70 phonograms, (phonograms are visual representative of the 44 sounds in the English language).

• High emphasis on handwriting.

• Intensified spelling lessons, whereby students receive in-depth lessons in the structure of the English language.

• Emphasis on developing higher level diagnostic thinking skills, whereby students are taught how to verbally explain the rules of the English language.

• Writing and reading instruction using fiction and non-fiction text.

• Reading and comprehension lessons based on quality literature.

• Availability of an after school tutoring lab for students who need additional help to ensure that they master the required skills.

• Whole group instruction, whereby students sit in desks facing the front of the classroom and receive direct instruction and modeling from the teacher. 

For additional information on the Spalding methodology click on the following link;   http://www.spalding.org