Students work on paragraph structure through journals, letters, and essays. In addition to paragraph development, work on sentence mechanics is included. Reading for main ideas and details are stressed. Practice involves small group discussions and pair work. Also includes journal writing.
Students read authentic texts.
Verb tenses are reviewed and expanded. Course focus is on adjective and adverb clauses, infinitives and gerunds, conjunctions, and parallelism. Emphasis on written usage. Additional focus on sentence types, articles, and prepositions. Course work includes main ideas, making inferences, and distinguishing fact and opinion.