This portion of the curriculum centers on the needs of individual students as well as the entire class. Grammar instruction will focus on the mistakes students make in their written work. Teacher instruction and teacher-student conferences will be used to help students recognize errors and teach them how to apply the relevant rules of grammar. Word Study, including spelling patterns and vocabulary, will also be individualized to meet the needs of each student. Students will study and analyze words to recognize patterns in both spelling and vocabulary. Follow-up revisionary activities will serve to reinforce concepts and help students to become actively involved in the study of language. Word study will include exploring and learning word patterns, identifying word roots, and understanding prefixes and suffixes. In this way, word study becomes a tool for both spelling and vocabulary.