The School District of Beloit literacy curricula are highly rated and aligned to Wisconsin state English Language Arts standards.  Our vision for literacy learning is to build strong reading foundational skills and grade-level understandings for all students through culturally relevant and responsive instructional practices, strategies, and resources to meet each learner's language and literacy needs.  Through rigorous and engaging instruction in the domains of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking, we will develop students' language abilities so that they can analyze, interpret, summarize, and synthesize information from multiple sources and perspectives to make meaning of the complex world around them.  By nurturing strong home, school, and community literacy partnerships, the School District of Beloit’s literacy programs will nurture the joy of reading and a strong, lifelong literacy identity within each learner so that they may excel in their pursuit of college, career and community opportunities.

• recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
• orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
• decode and encode regularly spelled one-syllable words (e.g., cat, fox, bet, cup, fit, etc.).
• recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
• isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
• segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).
• add, delete, or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple one-syllable words to make new words.
• know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds (Examples include but are not limited to: ai, ay, oa, ea, ee, ie, ue, ow).
• use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
• decode two-syllable words following basic (known) patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
• read words with inflectional endings (i.e., -s, -ed, -ing).
• read emergent-reader texts with purpose, understanding, and sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.