Language Arts

What is Language Arts?

Language Arts is a term used to include all areas of communicating in English whether written or spoken. In school the subject areas include reading, word study (spelling), grammar and writing. The Language arts grade includes speaking and listening, reading and writing. The Language Arts grade focuses on assessing your child's understanding of writing and speaking in proper English. Weekly grammar skills, writing stories, reports, and speeches are all included in the language grade. 

Your child will be learning specific rules for identifying and using all of the parts of speech including: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and interjections.

Language Arts also includes writer's workshop, word study, and speaking and listening.

Writer's Workshop includes

Persuasive Letter Writing

Letter Structure

Persuasive Techniques

Letter Closings

Audience 

Word Study

Punctuation and Capitalization

Contractions

Singular Possessives

Verb Endings: Doubling the Final Consonant 

Homophones

Using the Comma

Speaking and Listening

Raising hand when you wish to speak

Whole Body Listening

Turn Taking in Conversation

Sharing one's thinking with a partner

Sharing one's thinking with the class

Co-creating a verbal explanation

Systematic Observation: focused, close, and quiet observation

Asking questions

Responding thoughtfully to questions