Instruction focuses on helping students make the critical transition from elementary to middle school. Classes emphasize reading, writing, and revision. Core topics are reading comprehension approaches and strategies; advanced grammar concepts like coordination and subordination, and verb mood; concepts and strategies for writing essays.

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 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. Writing instruction focuses on paragraphing principles and strategies. Students continue their preparation. Grade 6 instruction focuses on helping students make the critical transition from elementary to middle school.

This is a sample of Reading Comprehension from this course
Reading paragraph ;- Predicting the Future
Garry Golden sitsin a small cafe in Brooklyn, New York. In front of him,sheets of paper with diagrams litterthe table. He rapidly sketchestrains, cars and highways as he explains hisideas. Garry Golden has one passion- transportation. The science of how to move people from place to place fascinates him. He spends his daysstudying the relationships between cars,subways, and trains. But he’s most excited about imagining the way these relationships will change in the next 20 years.
Golden is a futurist. Futurists are scientists who analyze the way the world is today and use that information to make predictions about what the world will be like in the future. In this way, they are the opposite of historians, who try to better understand the present through studying the past. Futurists hope that by making scientific predictions about the future, we can make better decisions today.
Some futuristsstudy the environment. Some study human society. Golden focuses on the study of transportation. He earned his graduate degree in Future Studiesfrom the University of Houston. Living in Houston forthose two years changed the way he viewed transportation in the United States.
Many public transportation advocates dislike Houston. They argue the city is too sprawling (it can take more than three hours to drive from one side of the city to the other during rush hour) and that there aren’t enough buses and subways. However, Houston was a source of inspiration for Golden.
“Houston is a really interesting place, and their transportation is a fascinating story—it’s worth watching. When you think about it, what is the U.S. like? It’s more like Houston. So you need to understand how Houston approaches things to understand the country as a whole. New York City is the exception,” said Golden in an interview with The New York Times.
Golden points out that people in New York City own fewer cars and walk much more than anywhere else in the United States. “It’s a unique environment,” says Golden. “Very different from the rest of the country.”
However, Golden believes American cities will become more similar to New York City in several ways over the next 20 years. He sees a trend toward fewer cars in the future. He explains, “Cities have a cost of car ownership that is a challenge. All these vehicles cost the city- in services, in having to repair roads and all of the other things.” Cars also take up a lot of space. Houston, for example, has 30 parking spaces for every resident. That’s 64.8 million parking spaces in only one city.
Golden points out that having so many parking spaces is inefficient. Much of the time the parking spaces sit empty. At high‐use times—for example, Saturday afternoon when everyone is running errands—every parking space at a shopping center is full. But at 3 a.m. on a Monday, no one is at the shopping center. What is the solution? “I think cities are going to start to legislate cars in very new ways,” says Golden. He explains that cities will make new laws to limit the number of cars people can have within city limits. Instead, people will use taxis, subways and buses. New technology, like smartphones, can make these forms of public transportation even better.
Buses have the same problem of inefficiency as parking spaces, explains Golden. Sometimes they are full, and sometimes they are empty. But imagine if everyone had a smartphone and used them to signal when they wanted to ride the bus. Buses could change their route, depending on who wanted to ride.
How soon would these changes come? Golden admits that it will take several years. Cities can be slow to change. Also, new systems of transportation can be expensive. “But it’s coming,” he says. “The trend of the empowered city will be here soon.”
The other trend that excites Golden is electric cars. “We need to reduce the amount of fuel we consume,” says Golden. “Everyone agrees on this. The question is how to do it.” Golden especially believes in the future of electric cars that have sensors to understand the world around them. “If we have cars that can communicate with one another, they can adjust speeds to eliminate traffic jams,” he says. Rush hour in Houston would suddenly be much less painful.
One challenge related to the production of electric cars is that it is hard to cheaply produce batteries that are strong enough for these cars. This is partially because cars are so heavy. But Golden argues you could also make cars out of strong plastic composites. The cars would then be much lighter and much cheaper to make. “This could revolutionize the highways,” he says. When could electric smart cars become the norm? Golden argues as soon as 2030.
As a futurist, Golden shares his predictions with other scholars at conferences across the country. He also provides advice to companies that want to know what the future will be like so they can make better strategies. Golden remains optimistic about the future. “There are so many exciting developments,” he says. “In thirty years we will live a very different world.”

In this Reading Comprehension you will get the multiple-choice questions (MCQ) and Answer solution type questions.

A sample of MCQ type question on this RC.

One problem with electric cars is that they require very strong batteries. Part of the reason the batteries have to be so strong is that cars are so heavy. What solution does Golden propose for this problem?
A build cars out of strong plastic composites so that they are lighter
B find an easier and faster way to produce strong batteries for cars
C build cars out of lighter weight metals so they don’t need as many batteries
D create a way for cars to communicate with each other and adjust their speeds
Answer ;- A.

Question/Answer type question on this RC.
Statement Explain how communications technology (such as smartphones and sensors) could help improve transportation in the future. Support your answer using information from the passage.
Suggested answer Answers may vary and should be supported by the passage. Students should indicate that communications technology could help transportation become more efficient and connected. For example, if people could use their smartphones to signal to buses when they want to be picked up, buses could change their routes based on who wanted to ride. This could keep buses from driving around with no passengers, thus improving efficiency. Communications technology could help improve cars, too. If cars could communicate with each other via sensors, they could adjust their speed based on the cars around them. This could help eliminate traffic jams and improve efficiency.