The team particularly wanted to focus on
whether early elementary students were improving their proficiency levels in vocabulary as measured by the reading assessment that all the elementary schools used.
The state of Florida also mandates learning standards, including science, for
early elementary students in kindergarten, 1st grade and 2nd grade.
Its highly visual lessons are designed to engage struggling readers, English learners, and
early elementary students.
Playing with pattern blocks, tangrams, and other manipulatives in order to create new shapes can be fun for
early elementary students.