Elementary

Students learn the fundamental skills of writing, reading comprehension, and building a rich vocabulary. Each lesson provides students with challenging materials designed to help them build the learning strategies they will need in elementary and middle school to prepare them to succeed in high school.

Classes emphasize integrated reading, writing, and vocabulary building. Core topics are: reading comprehension approaches and strategies, grammar fundamentals, vocabulary, and essay writing. Each lesson integrates reading passages, grammar exercises, vocabulary, and essay drafting and revision. Students learn that good writing requires revision.

Students continue their preparation to transition to middle school by developing more advanced reading skills, including understanding how context affects the meaning of more advanced words. Students learn basic principles of word choice for precision, concision, and rhetoric. Writing instruction emphasizes major types of formal English essays.