Curriculum

The Brooks academic program includes literacy, mathematics, social studies, and science with an infusion of technology.

• Comprehensive Literacy Framework through which students receive differentiated and explicit instruction in all four domains of discourse: reading, writing, speaking, and listening

• Structures of Reading Workshop, Writing Workshop, Interactive Read-Aloud/Shared Reading, Phonics, and Word Study are used to help students progress in their development as readers and writers

• Comprehensive Math Framework through which students receive differentiated and explicit instruction in the following domains: number and number sense, computation and estimation, measurement and geometry, probability and statistics, and patterns, functions, and algebra

• Supplemental reading and math interventions for students not performing on-level

• Intervention and enrichment classes during the school day to meet specific needs of students

• Art instruction with a certified art teacher once a week

• Vocal music instruction with a certified music teacher once a week

• Instrumental music lessons beginning in fourth (4th) grade for band or orchestra

• Two physical education classes a week with a certified P.E. teacher

• Instruction in family life education at levels appropriate to age

• Special education and EL programs

• Supplemental reading and math services 

• Talented and Gifted program for grades K-5 with a focus on the Young Scholars program in grades K-2