In addition, elementary students are provided an interactive environment with a number of innovative approaches that have proven to enhance learning.

Young students enter school with a variety of emerging skills and understandings. Avon Schools consider every student for his or her unique style of learning and abilities to learn. It is understood that students need appropriate experiences, which encompass the basic literacy components: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Strong literacy and mathematics foundations are built by offering a wide variety of experiences and materials to students. Students are encouraged to participate in language experiences, which include reading and listening to stories, group and individual writing, class books, poems, songs, and dramatic plays. There is a strong belief that reading and writing are necessary life-long skills that can be enjoyable.

• Develop strategies and skills which make them responsible users and critical interpreters of literature.

• Find personal satisfaction in interacting with literature.

• Develop personal and social values as they reflect on the material they read

The language arts curriculum includes phonics, grammar, process writing, spelling, and literature-based reading. Special programs include Intensive Phonics, Accelerated Reader and Project Read.