Our mission at Loudoun County Public Schools is to teach our
students to read and comprehend written text so that they may
become independent readers and writers, as well as life long
learners. At the elementary level, a variety of instructional
methodologies are employed to assist our students in literacy
acquisition. We are pleased to have the opportunity to help
children at Arcola Elementary School develop the skills they
need to become lifelong readers! We will work with classroom
teachers, the principal, and other specialists, to provide the
most appropriate reading instruction for your child. A balanced,
or comprehensive, literacy approach is used to teach reading.
This includes shared reading, guided reading, and independent
reading as well as read-alouds, literature study and explicit
skills lessons. This approach to instruction involves teaching
children to use the three cueing systems: meaning, sentence
structure, and graphophonics in learning to read. Instruction
integrates reading with thinking, w