The Top School is a Non-Profit institute
American Primary School Program
A Foundation for the Future
Our academic programs for grades K–5 tap into the natural inquisitiveness of young students, engaging their minds and imaginations to reinforce key concepts in meaningful, memorable ways. Direct, focused guidance comes from teachers and parents working together as they address unique student needs to ensure success.
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A Comprehensive Online School
The Top School features a complete American elementary school curriculum developed by great minds in education. Specialists in primary education (including educators, reading specialists, mathematicians, biologists, and artists) partnered with designers and cognitive scientists to create an online learning experience.
Core Subjects
For each grade in elementary school, The Top School's full American curriculum includes courses in the four core subjects: language arts, math, science, and social studies. These classes provide age-appropriate introductions to and lessons in essential topics that help provide the student’s foundation for their future education.
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​American Primary School English Liturature
To build a foundation for Middle school, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts.
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American Primary School Advanced English Liturature
Through extensive learning of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements
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American Primary School English Writing
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
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American Primary School Advanced English Writing
Students develop the capacity
to build knowledge on a subject through research projects and to respond analytically to literary and informational sources.
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American Primary School Social Science
Social Studies
Inflatable globes, U.S. and world maps, and history.
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American Primary School Scince
Thermometers, magnifying glasses, magnets, test tubes, seeds, scales, and rock and mineral kits.
​Elective Subjects
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American Primary School reading
By the end of Grade 5, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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American Primary School Literature Appreciation
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
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​American Primary School other subjects
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Includes biographies and autobiographies; books about history, social studies, science, and the arts; technical texts, including directions, forms, and information displayed in graphs, charts, or maps