Language Arts

Knowledge House offers a solid foundation in Language Arts through a curriculum derived from the best practices and content from elite US private and public schools. The program is designed to maximize each child’s potential to cultivate effective and thoughtful communicators, independent readers and writers.

I focus on the following areas in everyday instruction and practice:

Reading – Building critical thinking skills through pre-reading, reading comprehension, making inferences, asking questions, summarizing, comparing and contrasting, analyzing characters, and identifying cause and effect, creates an understanding of literature.

Grammar – Developing skills in spelling, punctuation, parts of speech, verb tenses and sentence types leads to better reading writing, listening and speaking.

Vocabulary – Learning multiple meanings, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, parts of speech, and using context clues help students broaden their oral expression, writing, and speaking skills.

Writing – Beginning with pre-writing, applying the writing process, sentence and paragraph structure, sequencing, conventions, various genres of composition, response, analysis, and creative thinking structures students’ writing.  A detailed process of creating written work is taught as our students progress, by focusing on the skills and process of writing. They learn to draft, revise, edit and proofread. By the time students graduate, they learn how to compose compelling narrative, descriptive, expository, and persuasive essays in their unique voice and can compare and contrast different works and apply their skills in literary analysis.