Students' actual rates of typing will vary at the end of this training. Software is available. Students will need adequate eye-hand coordination and attention span to benefit from this training. Grammar and Composition - The Shurley Method is used to teach parts of speech, sentence structure, and language rules. Students will learn to write a complete sentence, short paragraphs, and combine paragraphs into short essays.
Emphasis is on mastery of basic writing components.
This is not a creative writing course. Students will be encouraged to check for correct spelling, but this is neither a spelling course nor designed to improve spelling. This multisensory method has been very effective in improving students' knowledge of grammar and basic writing skills. This multisensory approach is designed to develop basic reading decoding skills beginning with single sounds and letters and progressing to multisyllabic words. Fluency - This course will focus on building reading fluency skills at the passage level using text materials appropriate to the student's reading ability level.