What is Language Arts?
Language Arts is a term used to describe all areas of communicating in English, both written and spoken. The subject areas that comprise Language Arts are reading, spelling, grammar, and writing, however, your child will receive a separate spelling, reading, and language grade. The language 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 the 8 parts of speech and various areas of grammar including: types of sentences, subjects & predicates, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, pronouns, commas, conjunctions, and
capitalization & punctuation.
capitalization & punctuation.
Daily Oral Language
Language Videos
Word Choice
*The use of rich, colorful, precise language in descriptive writing |
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Homophones
*2 Words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things |
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Synonyms & Antonyms
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Similes & Metaphors
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Idioms
*An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally |
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Figurative Language
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