Grade 1: Essential Skills
Phonics (Consonant Blends and Vowel Teams) / Sentence Structure / Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives / Phonics Stories
Grade 3: Essential Skills
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The texts are composed with the aim to challenge students. Their reading comprehension skills are assessed via multiple choice, short answer, and open-ended questions. Reading skills are introduced to guide students to become analytical readers. Skills include cause and effect, character trait, inference, main idea, prediction, plot, and visualization.
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Language Major skills include abstract noun, pronoun, conjunction, types of sentences, homophone, root words, and affixes.
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Students write paragraphs, short essays, poetry, and stories. Writing topic is often related to the theme in the text.
Grade 5: Essential Skills
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Reading Reading texts include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on a variety of topics, which include literature, science, and history. Texts are rich and challenging, and comprehension questions include multiple choice, short answer, and open-ended questions. Reading Skills Reading skills are introduced to guide students to become analytical readers. Skills include flashback, foreshadowing, drawing a conclusion, and point of view.
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Language Major skills include perfect tense, helping verb, active and passive voice, idiom, root word and affix, and figurative language.
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Writing Students write different types of essays, including opinion, compare and contrast, and narrative. Writing topic is often related to the theme in the text.
Grade 7: Essential Skills
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Reading Reading texts include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry on a variety of topics, which include literature, science, and history. Texts are rich and challenging, and comprehension questions include multiple choice, short answer, and open-ended questions. Reading Skills Reading skills are introduced to guide students to become analytical readers. Skills include allegory, drawing a conclusion, foreshadowing, theme, and tone and mood.
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Language Major skills include verb tense, relative clause, dangling and misplaced modifiers, dialect, analogy, and connotation
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Students write different types of essays, including opinion, informative, and argumentative. Writing topic is often related to the theme in the text.
