What's Covered in Age 5-7
The Age 5-7 level offers a full year of engaging, literature-based curriculum that builds a strong foundation in science, social studies, language arts, math, and reading. Through carefully selected stories and informational texts, students connect deeply with meaningful topics such as animal habitats, patterns, and change. Each book anchors hands-on activities, discussions, and projects that bring academic concepts to life. Along the way, your child will develop essential skills in reading fluency, comprehension, arithmetic, and problem-solving. Every unit blends literature with interactive learning—whether crafting a shoebox habitat, tracking weather in a daily journal, or dramatizing story characters—ensuring that abstract ideas become tangible and memorable.
Learn Across Subjects
The core of our Age 5–7 curriculum integrates science, social studies, and language arts into a connected learning experience. Each unit approaches a topic from multiple perspectives. In Habitats and Homes, students build mini-habitats (science), read and write about animals (language arts), and discuss human shelter needs (social studies). In Weather, they record observations (science), read about seasons (language arts), and explore how weather affects communities (social studies). In Community, they role-play helpers (social studies), write descriptively (language arts), and study local environments (science). This integrated approach builds academic skills and deepens students’ understanding of the world.
Build Understanding Through Big Ideas
Our concept-based curriculum for Ages 5–7 builds understanding around four big ideas: Environment, Similarities and Differences, Patterns, and Change. Students explore topics such as animal habitats, weather, the five senses, attributes, patterns, time, measurement, changes in nature, data, graphing, life in the past, and community life. Each unit integrates science, social studies, and language arts into a connected study of the world.
Students deepen their understanding by completing meaningful projects. They create illustrated stories, produce pattern videos, build shape museum exhibits, design community improvement plans, assemble mobiles about change, make addition and subtraction sticker books, host five-senses parties, deliver online book reviews, and write mini-books about their past, present, and future. These projects bring academic concepts to life through creativity and real-world application.
Explore Age 5-7 Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts in Depth
Read With Confidence
The Age 5-7 Reading Program from Beyond the Page guides children through the essential steps of learning to read by building phonemic awareness, phonics skills, and fluency. Students begin by mastering letter sounds and recognizing patterns in words, then move to blending sounds, reading sight words, and constructing full sentences. Each week, children read engaging stories, practice decoding strategies, and strengthen comprehension through guided activities and writing practice. Carefully designed weekly messages and interactive exercises reinforce new vocabulary, build confidence, and help young readers move naturally from sounding out words to reading with speed and accuracy.
Hands-On Math
The Age 5-7 Math program builds deep conceptual understanding through hands-on projects, engaging literature, adaptive review, and comprehensive materials. Children first explore and visualize mathematical ideas before learning procedures, using multiple strategies to build fluency and critical thinking. Daily activities—like reading, games, and hands-on projects—connect math to real life. Final projects reinforce learning through real-world application. Our adaptive Learning Gates system ensures lasting mastery by personalizing review. Fully aligned with Common Core Standards, the program teaches essential skills creatively and is supported by a complete, easy-to-use materials kit.
Language Arts Prerequisites
- Knows letters and their sounds
- Able to write letters
- Usually used by children in first grade
Reading Prerequisites
- Recognize upper and lower case letters
- Write upper and lower case letters
- Identify the sounds of the letters
Reading Placement QuestionnaireMath Prerequisites
- Has completed the Age 4-5 level or another kindergarten program
- Recognizes and understands numbers 1-20
- Can write the numbers 1-20
- Usually used by children in first grade
A Day In the Life
Each day, your child will complete three lessons:
- One covers science, social studies, and language arts (~60 minutes),
- One covers reading (~45 minutes), and
- One covers math (~60 minutes).
In addition to this schedule, we recommend spending 20-30 minutes reading aloud to your child, 30 minutes in additional practice that your child may need, and 30 minutes extending the lesson when students want to spend extra time on a lesson.
See a complete list of the units and how they line up.
Beyond Standards
Because all lessons are based on state and national standards, you can be confident your child will learn all of the necessary skills for his age. Your child will also be challenged to read and write at a higher level.
The Age 5-7 Full Year Package - S, SS, LA, M, R covers science, social studies, language arts, math, and reading.