Increasing Literacy in Children Kindergarten through Sixth Grade with After School Programs

Because people can read, illiteracy is a recurring dilemma. Children do not know how to read and write at school, or they need additional help to become good at reading and writing. School planning was established to help schools improve children's literacy rate. After school program is a program that provides services to help children, after school, art, crafts, sports, or homework. Whether the after school program is responsible for improving the literacy rate of children.

Through the grade from 2016 to 2017, I was a literacy teacher of Chelsea's junior high school student's extracurricular literacy. I offered a book club to improve the literacy rate for elementary school 6th grade students. Classes are held three times a week and consist of nine students. Each of the nine people has its own personality, reading and reading performance is improving. Students selected as book club programs are neither underlying performers nor top performers. Through standardized tests, the school has identified a group of students preparing to improve their reading level to the grade

Elementary schools cover kindergartens to kindergartens, so students can learn the basics and the basics to add to academic knowledge. The grammar school is from the first grade to the sixth grade, learns the ancient civilization in the fifth grade and the sixth grade and promotes the development of capitalism and industrialization. Inference, composition, and reading are the main focus of grammar school acquisition skills. Arbor School covers 21 acres, teaches a thematic courses from kindergarten to 8th grade in an interdisciplinary way, using a mixed age group. Students stay with the same teacher for two years and are connected with older students and younger students at multiple age groups. The purpose of ASAS is to help students acquire the skills necessary to learn important ideas through questioning and self expression in order to provide their learning significance.

Elementary school includes all grade. In some areas, it includes from kindergarten to 8th grade. In other areas, it is regarded as a junior high school ranging from 5th graders, 6th graders, 7th graders, 8th graders. Primary school teachers are interacting with students of various age groups from 5 to 6 years old, 11 to 12 years old. Elementary school students are in various stages of development and their needs vary widely. However, most elementary school teachers are focusing on specific grade and teach classes of students of the same age. In fact, in some states teachers are required to pass certification to teach a specific grade.