Draft - Instructions
review, add, and prioritize, activity suggestions ( both in general and subcategory)
review and add curriculum suggestions (fill in the blanks and add lines as necessary)
for learning styles use visual, auditory, or kinesthetic

ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

GENERAL INTERVENTIONS/ACTIVITY SUGGESTIONS

• 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
• Tutoring
• AESS-including creative assignments from the ES
• Classes at the Learning Centers
• Benchmark Testing/Edusoft
• Evaluate student work using an appropriate rubric

Reading

• Activity Suggestions
  • 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
• Curriculum Suggestions

Grammar

• Activity Suggestions
• Curriculum Suggestions

Spelling

• Activity Suggestions
• Curriculum Suggestions

Writing

• Activity Suggestions
  • Writing Portfolios
• 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
• Curriculum Suggestions

• On-Line Writing Programs/Classes

Vocabulary

• Activity Suggestions
  • Read to your child/have your child read to you
• Curriculum Suggestions