Alpha K English Language Arts (ELA)

Grades K1 & K2

The Alpha K ELA Program understands the importance of engaging children with the art of reading and setting them up for a lifelong love of literature. Alpha K ELA follows a carefully integrated, multimodal approach for introducing language arts skills and guiding students toward acquiring mastery of reading, writing, and speaking the English language.

Key Features:

Program Components

Student Book

The beautifully illustrated paired selections of stories reflect the integrated model of literacy required by the CCSS and help students to build on the skills developed at the pre-reading stage (decoding stories through images and identifying characters, settings, and main events).

Text Connections

After each paired text selection is a set of three textual connections:

  • Text-to-Text
  • Text-to-Self
  • Text-to-World

These connections help children develop the habit of reading critically and making connections to the world around them.

Phonics page

The phonics page introduces Phonological Awareness through the phonics that children encounter in the two readings. Children lean the relationship between spoken and written English most effectively when the connection between the two is presented within a literary setting.

Sidekick

Sidekick contains a variety of fun and easy-to-follow exercises to help children review. apply and practice comprehension, reading, and writing skills.

– Use your Bank
– Words and Words Parts
– Phonics and Words
– Comprehension Activities
– Decodable Readers to practice phonemic knowledge in a literary setting
– Handwriting and Writing in Action Exercises
– Language Arts and Grammar

Teacher Guide

The Alpha K ELA Teacher Guide has been designed to provide teachers with the necessary resources to meet the diverse needs of today’s young learners throughout the world.

It provides an overview of each unit and includes support for every selection in the Student Book and the practices in the Sidekick.


The Teacher Guide also includes teacher scripts, ELL tips and Activities, Pacing and Lesson Plans, Phonics and Multiple Intelligence Activities guides, CCSS codes, and Assessment Rubrics.

School to Home Letter:

Parents will get to know what their children are learning and how to encourage them at home

Ancillaries

Classroom Ancillary pack K1 Flash Cards

– Visual Vocabulary
– What’s the Story?
– Chant and Sing

Classroom Ancillary Pack K2 Flash Cards

– Visual Vocabulary
– What’s the Story?
– Chant and Sing

Classroom Ancillary Supplement Pack (goes with both K1 & K2) Flash Cards

– Alphabet
– Grammar and Language
– Phonics

Available on eAlpha – Our LMS

eAlpha connects students and teachers, offering them a collaborative, interactive, and mobile teaming environment that impacts every aspect of education. Features and benefits include:

- Easy to use and intuitive eLearning platform

- Allows you to work both online and offline with interactive content on any device

- Access all teacher guides, student books, practice and work books, ancillaries and assessments complete with full interactivity

- Navigate with ease through hyperlinked content pages

- Set assignments easily to whole classes or groups or individuals students

- Effortlessly monitor and report student progress

- Parent guides available