CKLA Curriculum

A Coherent, Cumulative, and Content-Specific Curriculum. The idea behind the Core Knowledge Sequence is simple and powerful: knowledge builds on knowledge. For the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, Core Knowledge provides a core curriculum that is coherent, cumulative, and content-specific in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge, grade by grade. If all of our children are to be fully educated and participate equally in civic life, then we must provide each of them with the shared body of knowledge that makes literacy and communication possible.

This concept, central to the Core Knowledge Foundation’s goal of excellence and equity in education, takes shape in the Sequence—a pioneering attempt to outline the specific core of shared knowledge that all children should learn in American schools. The Core Knowledge Sequence and the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence and Teacher Handbook are detailed outlines of specific content (and skills) taught in English/language arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and fine arts. Please take a moment to view a snapshot of Pine Springs Preparatory’s Core Knowledge Language Arts Curriculum.

This snapshot does not include the school-wide focus on Writing, Grammar, and Usage (to include both expository and imaginative writing), Speaking and Listening Skills (through the use of discussion, debate, speeches, and presentations), and Vocabulary (with a strong focus on the use of prefixes, suffixes, and Latin & Greek root words).