Kindergarten: Students at Collegiate Charter School of Lowell are immersed in multisensory experiences in English Language Arts as they develop their foundational skills. Students will be able to hear and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. For example, students will be able to isolate and blend sounds to make new words. Students will also identify high-frequency words within their decodable reading, and develop handwriting skills, pre-spelling, and spelling strategies. Students are taught to bridge reading and writing using academic vocabulary and develop the elements of writing through various genres, like making connections to characters in literary texts, as well as developing language and conventions.

Grades 1-2: Students at the Collegiate Charter School of Lowell continue to build on their foundational skills as they learn how to read. Students will continue to scaffold on blending and segmenting various sounds to make new words, identifying short and long vowel sounds, and writing compound words and sentences. Students will be able to increase the number of words read, and able to do so fluently, thereby leading to their improved reading comprehension. Students will be able to recognize the meaning of unknown words using the context clues around those words. They will be able to read various genres for their interests as well as for explicit instruction.