Students in this stage are gaining confidence in both their reading and writing skills.  Students will be introduced to the basic rules of grammar through color-coding, write with a purpose, as well as spell and use meaningful vocabulary words.

Process

Basic Rules of Grammar

• Easy Grammar 3 Workbook is our primary grammar text

• Color-coding parts of speech assists students in comprehending sentence patterns that will carry over into their sentence writing skills

• Capitalization and punctuation practice

Compositions

• Engaging weekly one-paragraph compositions

• Topic sentence

• Concluding sentence

Spelling/Vocabulary Assignments

• Basic spelling rules: vowels, digraphs, diphthongs

• Meaningful vocabulary

Handwriting

• Scripture

• Dictation

Parental Responsibilities

Each week parents are asked to oversee the completion of assignments

• Easy Grammar

• Spelling/Vocabulary

• Weekly Writing Assignment to be sent to the teacher for grading