ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

INTERVENTIONS

• Challenge the child to his/her best
• Read to and with your child
• Limit television and recreational computer time to rewards
• Remember: Parent Choice, not Student Choice
• Look for Quality and not always Quantity

CURRICULUM IDEAS

• Reading
  • Read to and with your child
  • Have the children read aloud
  • Read a variety of good books
    • A List of 100 Good Books
  • Listen to books on tape-a resource is 100 Greatest Books by Intelliquest
  • Book Reports that are grade specific
  • Follow up reading of book with seeing the movie
• Grammar
  • Grammar with a Giggle
  • Easy Grammar- Rainbow Resource/Home Learner’s Catalog/ISHA
  • Daily Grams
  • G.U.M.-Zanerbloser
  • Editor-In-Chief
  • Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
• Spelling
  • Spelling Power
  • Spelling Connections
  • Excellence in Writing Spelling Program-great for auditory learners
  • Spelling Workout
  • MegaWords-EPS-a phonics/rules based program
• Writing
  • Writing Strands-Home Learner’s Catalog, Rainbow Resource
  • Writing Portfolios
  • Excellence in Writing
  • Have the child dictate to parent, parent writes it, then child can copy it using proper grammar
  • Letter Writing
  • Analyze short passages by great authors and rewrite them
  • 4th and 7th graders can write once a month using the rubrics from the state web site
  • Daily journaling
  • Dictation
  • Travelogues
  • School Composition Collection
• On-Line Writing Programs/Classes
  • Write Guide
  • Education Express
  • Stanford EPGY (Educational Program for Gifted Youth)
• Vocabulary
  • Wordly Wise
  • Idioms
  • Read to your child/have your child read to you

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Tutoring
• AESS-including creative assignments from the ES
• Classes at the Learning Centers
• Benchmark Testing/Edusoft