Language Arts 300 Course Overview

Language Arts 300 focuses on the sequential development and integration of communication skills in four major areas—
reading, writing, speaking, and listening. It most specifically focuses on deepening and furthering students' understanding in the
following ways:
• Unit 1: Understand and recognize rules for capitalization and vowels, as well as identifying a main idea
• Unit 2: Write complete sentences with proper capitalization and organize words into alphabetical order
• Unit 3: Apply understanding of dictionary use, identifying word parts, and defining vocabulary
• Unit 4: Differentiate parts of speech, irregular vowel sounds, as well as practicing reading comprehension strategies
• Unit 5: Use commas properly and recognize words with silent letters
• Unit 6: Identify cause and effect in a passage, recognize homographs, and read and understand Haiku poetry
• Unit 7: Use suffixes and pronouns to improve writing such as friendly letters, as well as applying strategies for following directions
• Unit 8: Read and describe parts of a play and recognize root words and adjectives that compare
• Unit 9: Apply reading strategies of classifying, references, and predictions, as well as write thank-you letters