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Learning-2-Learn Language Arts

Language Arts is a comprehensive standards based solution for grades PreK-8 that helps provide a balanced approach to literacy.
Reading/Language Arts incorporates the strategies supported by the International Reading Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children; incorporates the National Reading Panel competencies; and meets the requirements for Early Reading First and Reading First.
Curriculum and instruction focus on improving
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics instruction and decoding
- Fluency
- Vocabulary and background knowledge
- Text comprehension
The Reading/Language Arts program offers
- A phonics-based, literature-based curriculum that introduces young learners to age-appropriate literary classics.
- A spiraling curriculum that builds and reinforces reading and comprehension skills.
- Continuous integrated assessment and instruction.
- And materials extend and deepen skills by adding learning activities at home
English Usage/Mechanics

- Verbs
- Capitalization and Punctuation
- Sentence Structure
- Agreement
- Diction
- Rhetorical Skills
- Style
- Organization and Strategy
Verbal Skills
- Analogies
- Degree - relationship between a word and intensified version
- Sentence Completion
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