Essential Language Arts Skills

Come join this class for a review of skills or for learning from the beginning! 

Each week we will look at a new topic as scheduled below to discover the world of English and the doors that are opened for us when we learn it well! Class will be a mixture of lecture and discussion and will also have a content section on writing skills. Join for one lesson or all depending on where you are at in your learning journey.

Slides will be presented in Nearpod but I will screenshare so that parents do not have to have a separate account. 

Each meeting will consist of a short review of the previous topic and then we will move to new content. I will provide additional learning material for practice for those students who would like to have that option. Please ask your student to come prepared with paper and pencil for class. 

Weekly topics are as follows: 

Week of Sept 9: Syllables and Rhymes (Create a catchy short story)
Week of Sept 16: Statements, Questions, Commands, and Exclamations (Correct the punctuation)
Week of Sept 23: Subject of a Sentence (Identify the wacky subject)
Week of Sept 30: Historical Fiction (Make your own history)
Week of Oct 7: Predicates 
Week of Oct 14: Combining Subjects and Predicates
Week of Oct 21: Compound Words 
Week of Oct 28: Realistic Fiction (Create your own)
Week of Nov 4: Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons
Week of Nov 11: Choosing Book Titles
Week of Nov 18: Homophones
Week of Nov 25: Fantasy (Make your own unbelievable story)
Week of Dec 2: Conjunctions
Week of Dec 9: Regular Plurals with -s and -es
Week of Dec 16: Irregular Plurals
Week of Dec 23: Synonyms
Week of Dec 30: Identifying details that don't support the topic in a story
Week of Jan 6: Plurals, Singular Possessives, and Plural Possessives
Week of Jan 13: Subordinating Conjunctions
Week of Jan 20: Personal and Reflexive Pronouns
Week of Jan 27: Facts versus Opinions
Week of Feb 3: Action Verbs
Week of Feb 10: Antonyms
Week of Feb 17: Back up your opinion with a reason
Week of Feb 24: Regular Past Tense
Week of Mar 3: Topic Sentence of Informational Passages
Week of Mar 10: Irregular Past Tense "I'
Week of Mar 17: Endings -ed and -ing
Week of Mar 24: Topic sentences for Expository Paragraphs
Week of Mar 31: "To be" and "to have"
Week of Apr 7: Pronoun-Verb Agreement
Week of Apr 14: Context Clues to Identify Word Meanings
Week of Apr 21: Idioms
Week of Apr 28: Adding Descriptive Details to Sentences
Week of May 5: Contractions
Week of May 12: Ordering Story Events
Week of May 19: Base Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Week of May 26: Topic Sentences for Narrative Paragraphs

We will have a short lecture on each topic before proceeding to an activity related to that week's topic. 

New topics will be added as class progresses. 

Please reach out if you have any questions!