Welcome to Basic Skills Instruction!

The goal of Basic Skills Instruction (BSI) is to give your child the skills and self-confidence they need to become independent, life-long learners.  BSI provides supplemental instruction in the areas of language, reading, and fine motor development.  Skills we work on include: 

• Expressive and receptive language development

• Vocabulary building

• Concept development & readiness skills

• Alphabet recognition

• Letter formation

• Rhyming and alliteration

• Phonemic awareness skills - the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words

• Sight words

• Reading decodable texts (when students are ready)

As a result, your child will: 

• Learn capital and lower-case letters and sounds

• Learn how to form letters correctly

• Segment words into sounds

• Blend sounds to create words

• Practice becoming a fluent reader.

• Comprehend details from stories and informational text.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send a note, email me, or leave a message on my voicemail.  My phone number is 856-652-2700, ext,8219.  My email is cowens@gpsd.us.  I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Carrie Owens

BSI Teacher