Offered Course Selection Guide Guidance Dept. Lesson plans, lessons, assignments, work sheets, and checklists are arranged in the order needed. The text for the course is English, by Houghton Mifflin.
Students choose reading from a selection covering several different genre.
Application of language arts skills is emphasized. Rarely does any one activity function independently. The materials are addressed directly to the home teachers, include notes on mathematical ideas, and provide actual dialogues from classrooms which are designed to support home teachers in learning more about mathematics and the ways in which children think about mathematics. An alternate course is Addison-Wesley mathematics that is structured around teaching children problem solving. To be effective problem solvers, students need to understand concepts, know basic facts, efficiently use computational skills and select and apply appropriate problem solving strategies.