36 weeks of instruction cover standards-based skills such as:

Reading Comprehension:

• analogies
• categorizing
• cause and effect
• fact and opinion
• figures of speech
• inference
• similes & metaphors

Vocabulary/Word Study

• base words, prefixes, suffixes
• vowel sounds
• contractions
• homophones
• synonyms/antonyms
• word meaning from context
• spelling

Punctuation

• punctuation at the end of a sentence
• periods in abbreviations
• colons in time
• underlining magazines, books, plays
• run-on sentences
• quotation marks in speech, songs, poems, and short stories
• commas in dates, in addresses, in a series, to separate dialogue, in parenthetical expression/direct address, in compound sentences, after an introductory phrase, and with nonrestrictive appositive
• apostrophes in contractions and possessives
• interjections
• punctuation in friendly letters

Capitalisation

• sentence beginning
• days, months, holidays
• books, songs, poems
• names of places
• proper names and titles of people

Grammar and Usage

• correct article, determiner, adjective
• double negatives
• pronouns
• singular & plural nouns
• common & proper nouns
• possessive nouns
• verb forms
• verb tense
• subject/predicate
• parts of speech
• comparative & superlative forms
• subject/verb agreement
• sentence types
• combining sentences
• identify a sentence

Reference Skills

• alphabetical order
• dictionary guide words
• reference materials