Instructional Approach
Explicit and structured literacy instruction is valuable and has proven successful for all students. It is essential for students with dyslexia or other related learning disabilities, and for English Language Learners. Bridge Prep’s instructional approach is rooted in the fact that students learn in different ways and have differing abilities and interests.
Our curriculum is aligned the Next Generation Learning Standards and engages students in rigorous and meaningful content, while also providing the supports needed for sustained success. Some of the elements we use, across all subjects throughout the day, include:
The Orton-Gillingham Approach
A foundational component of our instructional design is the use of the highly structured Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching literacy. Orton-Gillingham is a widely known multisensory approach that has been proven to work with all students. Our multisensory instructional focus will allow all students to use their individual learning strengths and sensory modalities like sight, sound, movement and touch to connect language to words. Since writing competency is so closely aligned to reading, we also incorporate a research-based writing program to supplement our literacy programming.
Systematic and Structured Literacy
Our approach to literacy, aligned to national learning standards, provides consistent skill reinforcement for students at all levels, in all subject areas, to assure they learn to think and write with greater precision and confidence, no matter the content. This level of programming is embedded into the daily curriculum, across all core subjects, as well as our music, art and physical education classes.
Project Based Learning
Project-Based Learning allows students to use their individual strengths to make connections to instruction and content. By promoting knowledge and skill-acquisition through authentic investigation of a problem, issue, challenge or complex question, Project-Based Learning is a key feature of our Science and Social Studies curricula.
Instructional Strategies
Our students are provided learning experiences that challenge them to think, perform and grow to new levels of achievement. Our instructional program will both challenge and support students, engaging them in higher order thinking skills to build bridges across content areas and form connections between learning and their lives.