Middle School

Grade 6 instruction focuses on helping students make the critical transition from elementary to middle school. Classes emphasize reading, writing, vocabulary building, and essay drafting and revision. Core topics are reading comprehension strategies; advanced grammar concepts; extensive vocabulary instruction; and strategies for writing essays.

Class prepares students to excel in English reading and writing in Grade 7. In addition to enabling students to apply advanced drafting and revision skills, instruction gives students the skills essential for writing timed essays. Students learn advanced grammar skills, essay organization, word choice strategies, and skills for timed essays.

This course prepares students for the reading comprehension and writing coursework that will have in high school. This is an English accelerated writing course to fill gaps in students’ learning. Instruction gives students the grammar and writing foundations they will need when beginning to prepare for the PSAT/SAT and ACT.