Welcome to our fully comprehensive Grade k -5 English-Language Arts (ELA) course! Designed to cover all the essentials, this course provides a strong foundation in reading, writing, spelling, grammar and literature. Our engaging and interactive lessons are perfect for young learners, fostering a love for language while developing critical skills. 

Our teaching style is student-centered, Socratic, interactive and encouraging.  
As this is a private tutoring class, we will work through the class at the the learners pace, where the learner needs more time we will working on these areas for longer and if a student is well versed in a section we will move a long quite quickly.

This course uses a combination of colorful and animated slides to enhance visual learning and keep students engaged, as well as short video clips, interactive games and activities, and group discussions to encourage participation and help students articulate their thoughts. 


In this course, students will develop essential language skills through engaging and interactive activities:

Reading: Enjoy story time with a mix of classic and modern children’s books, followed by activities to enhance understanding. Focus areas include phonics, sight words, comprehension strategies, and improving reading fluency.

Writing: Explore fun and creative writing prompts designed to spark imagination and practice sentence formation. Students will work on sentence structure, creative writing, and basic punctuation skills.

Spelling: Strengthen spelling skills through interactive games and activities. Key topics include spelling words, high-frequency words, word families, and foundational spelling rules.

Grammar: Learn to identify and use key parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives through engaging activities. The course will cover parts of speech, simple sentence construction, and proper grammar usage.

This program combines fun and learning to build confidence and proficiency in reading, writing, spelling, and grammar!


1st grade English Language Arts!

Reader Level 1 books. The Level 1 books are approximately Kindergarten to First Grade Level. (Guided Reading Level: C-J; Lexile Level: 100L-400L). The Level 1 Readers contain simple words and short sentences for new readers. Learners will encounter frequently used words (sight words) and practice sounding out simple sentences. We will also focus on phonics, grammar, language arts, literacy skills and writing skills. (Students will not need their own copy of the book. We will read together in class.)

2nd grade English Language Arts!

This course contains a variety of activities in reading, writing, grammar, and spelling to cover all the necessities of a comprehensive ELA course.

We will work on reading, comprehension, and/or grammar topics as well as spelling and writing. Earlier in the school year, writing will begin and as the year moves on, the writing will expand in skill level. 

3rd grade English Language Arts!

Vocabulary - Focus on learning new vocabulary through the concepts of synonyms, antonyms, suffixes, homophones, and idioms. Learners will be guided to use a dictionary to help learn definitions and the target concept. They will be encouraged to use the concepts in writing and share their work with their peers.

Processing - Use the books and/or select non-fiction articles to learn and practice skills of predicting what might happen next, understanding the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing, visualizing what a text is trying to illustrate and writing in a way to help others visualize, questioning story plots, and learning to identify and write text with clarity.

 Literature - Read select literature to focus on the main ideas and themes of the story, and learn and practice skills including identifying and using story elements such as characters, settings, plots, conflicts, and resolutions to form ideas around inferences, conclusions, and generalizations.

Paragraph Writing - Learn different types of paragraphs and practice writing them, with an introduction to grammar points to include in writing.
Classes 19-24

4th grade English Language Arts!

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Comprehending Informational Text 

Read select informational texts to determine and understand the main idea and supporting details, decipher non-literal meanings, work out the point of view and author's purpose, and compare and contrast similar texts.

 Read select informational texts to decipher charts and graphs, learn about sequential orders, fact and opinion, cause and effect, and summarizing text.

Read select tall tales and fairy tales to explore this type of text and analyze their parts, as well as writing one of each.


5th grade English Language Arts!

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Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph narrative essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way.
Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph explanatory essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way.
Learn the process of writing an essay and produce a multi-paragraph persuasive essay with plenty of teacher feedback along the way.


6th grade English Language Arts!

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Introduction to Research

Note-Taking and Creative Writing - Learn and practice taking notes on text and videos with 3 different methods and write creatively using story elements and dice for inspiration.

Poetry & Literature - Read select poetry pieces and learn about different types of poetry while analyzing their central message, as well as writing different types.