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Louisiana Believes

Preparing for college and careers starts even before kindergarten.

Research shows that children who participate in a high quality early childhood program are more likely to enter school kindergarten ready, which has a lasting impact on their academic success.

Curriculum

All pre-kindergarten students are using an aligned curriculum to ensure that they are learning the Louisiana State Standards.  The following curriculums are used:

  • Frog Street Pre-K 2020 is a comprehensive curriculum that includes support materials, from manipulatives to assessment, to ensure successful implementation of high-quality instruction.
  • Math Pre-K provides an overview of all of the Pre-Kindergarten modules, including Counting to 5; Shapes; Counting to 10; Comparison of Length, Weight, Capacity, and Numbers to 5; and Addition and Subtraction Stories and Counting to 20.
  • The Heggerty Pre-K curriculum includes complex phoneme manipulation activities with adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in spoken words.
  • Teachers also supplement additional activities, as needed.

Grade Level Goals

By the end of the 2025-2026 school year . . .

  • All students in Pre-K will meet or exceed expectations based on a year's growth in TS GOLD.

Curriculum

All kindergarteners are using an aligned curriculum in each subject area to ensure that they are learning the Louisiana State Standards.  The following curriculums are used:

  • Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a research-based, comprehensive English Language Arts (ELA) program that integrates reading language, writing, speaking, and listening and encompasses the five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension). 
  • iReady Math is used for mathematics. Kindergarten students develop a deep understanding of number as they count, compare, compose, and decompose. They learn to make sense of problems as they explore number, shape, and measurement concepts.
  • Amplify Science is used for science.  Amplify Science blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.
  • Bayou Bridges is used for social studies.  Bayou Bridges is designed to ensure students have broad and deep knowledge about the world and are able to express reasoned arguements and are prepared to participate in civic life.

Grade Level Goals

Kindergarten Grade Level Goals

Curriculum

All first graders are using an aligned curriculum in each subject area to ensure that they are learning the Louisiana State Standards.  The following curriculums are used:

  • Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a research-based, comprehensive English Language Arts (ELA) program that integrates reading language, writing, speaking, and listening and encompasses the five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension). 
  • iReady Math is used for mathematics. First Grade mathematics is about (1) developing understanding of addition, subtraction, and strategies for addition and subtraction within 20; (2) developing understanding of whole number relationships and place value, including grouping in tens and ones; (3) developing understanding of linear measurement and measuring lengths as iterating length units; and (4) reasoning about attributes of, and composing and decomposing geometric shapes.
  • Amplify Science is used for science.  Amplify Science blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.
  • Bayou Bridges is used for social studies.  Bayou Bridges is designed to ensure students have broad and deep knowledge about the world and are able to express reasoned arguements and are prepared to participate in civic life.

Grade Level Goals

1st Grade School Goals

Curriculum

All second graders are using an aligned curriculum in each subject area to ensure that they are learning the Louisiana State Standards.  The following curriculums are used:

  • Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) is a research-based, comprehensive English Language Arts (ELA) program that integrates reading language, writing, speaking, and listening and encompasses the five components of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension). 
  • iReady Math is used for mathematics. Second grade students work with a new unit of one hundred, which is composed of 10 tens. As they work flexibly with units, students compose and decompose quantities in various ways to solve problems within 1,000.
  • Amplify Science is used for science.  Amplify Science blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.
  • Bayou Bridges is used for social studies.  Bayou Bridges is designed to ensure students have broad and deep knowledge about the world and are able to express reasoned arguements and are prepared to participate in civic life.

Grade Level Goals

2nd Grade School Goals

Curriculum

All third graders are using an aligned curriculum in each subject area to ensure that they are learning the Louisiana State Standards.  The following curriculums are used:

  • ELA Guidebooks is an English language arts curriculum for core instruction. In the ELA Guidebooks, students:  explore central questions that connect units in a year-long pathway;  examine texts by diverse authors about substantive topics;  engage in varied opportunities to read, discuss, write, and present; and  experience integrated instruction and assessment leading to a comprehensive ELA experience.
  • iReady Math is used for mathematics. Students multiply and divide within 100 by using different strategies and recognize fractions as numbers, built from unit fractions, and use visual fraction models to describe parts of a whole. Students develop an understanding of area concepts and relate area to addition and multiplication. They reason about shapes and their attributes and recognize perimeter and area as attributes of plane figures. Students use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
  • Amplify Science is used for science.  Amplify Science blends hands-on investigations, literacy-rich activities, and interactive digital tools to empower students to think, read, write, and argue like real scientists and engineers.
  • Bayou Bridges is used for social studies.  Bayou Bridges is designed to ensure students have broad and deep knowledge about the world and are able to express reasoned arguements and are prepared to participate in civic life.

Grade Level Goals

3rd Grade School Goals

LEAP 2025

LEAP 2025 will be administered in the spring in ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science.

  • The ELA assessment will test the areas of literary text, informative text, vocabulary, written expression, and knowledge and use of writing conventions.
  • The LEAP 2025 Math assessment will assess areas of major content, additional and supporting content for grade 3, expressing mathematical reasoning, and modeling and application.
  • The LEAP 2025 Science assessment will assess a student's understanding of the grade 3 LSS for Science, reflecting the multiple dimensions of the standards.
  • The LEAP 2025 Social Studies assessment will assess a student's understanding using accurate and relevant information from their Social Studies knowledge from sources to support claims about Social Studies concepts.

Parent Guide to the LEAP 2025 Tests

The LDOE developed the Parent Guide to the LEAP 2025 Tests to support parents in helping their child prepare for this year's assessments.  The guide, available in the Family Support Toolbox on the louisianabelieves.com website, includes helpful information on test schedules, testing times, and resources such as practice tests and released test items to support student learning at home.

https://www.louisianabelieves.com/resources/library/family-support-toolbox-library

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