Through explicit instruction, ample practice, and immediate application of skills, students will master grade-appropriate conventions of standard English. Each Level is divided into six units focused on teaching sentences; nouns; verbs; adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions (per CCSS regulations, prepositions only taught in grades 4 and 5); pronouns; and capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
Each lesson has the same easy-to-follow, three-step instructional sequence:
- Learn features succinct and bite-sized skill instruction with clear explanations and modeling
- Practice includes three scaffolded activities, each building on the prior and increasing in difficulty
- Write encourages students to apply what they learned with three types of writing activities: Revising Sentences, Combining Sentences, and Write Your Own
Lessons are followed by a Unit Review to reinforce learning and a Unit Test in standardized test format to monitor progress.