Total Physical Response Instruction and learning builds on what is learned the previous year in order to review and reinforce as well as to introduce new students to French. These activities increase familiarity and comfort levels with the language. Reading Series Other titles are teacher-chosen to reflect language skills and subject areas that reflect the integrated curriculum combining social studies, math, and language topics and ideas. The readings are old, new, and classics and they reflect a diversity of characters and topics. The readings include poems, rhymes, and nonsense.
Creative writing is encouraged by expressing ideas using temporary spelling and illustrations.
Thinking skill development is also part of the Open Court program. Listening skills for comprehension, inference, identifying the main idea and the main characters, deductive reasoning. Students learn the different patterns using the pentatonic scale. Children learn half-notes. Also introduced is the notation concept of the tie , where a note may be carried over.