Spur Language Arts 4

At this level, students continue to build knowledge of letters and sounds, syllables and word formation to increase their knowledge of reading and spelling words with multiple syllables. This course is designed to help students learn to read and spell more easily and accurately and to increase reading comprehension. Students in this course read both fiction and nonfiction materials. In this course, students continue to develop their writing and grammar skills by practicing the skills necessary to write essays, stories, plays and fiction. Students begin to use literary devices in their writing and continue to develop good grammar skills. This course urges students to focus on clarity of topic, task and audience of their writing by developing more complex sentences.