Topics covered in Language Arts at Home

• Nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, possessive)
• Verbs (principal parts - tense, voice, mood)
• Sentences, Sentence Types
• Alphabetical Order
• Dates, Days of the Week, Months of the Year
• Initials
• Number Words
• Fiction & Non-Fiction (Real & Make-Believe)
• Parts of a Book (Title Page, Author, Illustrator, Illustrations, Table of Contents)
• Previewing
• Setting
• Characters
• Finding the Main Idea
• Predicting the Outcome
• Drawing Conclusions
• Cause & Effect
• Compare & Contrast
• Recalling Detail
• Timelines
• Following Directions
• Prewriting
• Pronouns & Antecedents (possessive)
• Contractions
• Apostrophes
• Abbreviations
• Punctuation of Titles
• Ordinal Numbers
• Transitional Words
• Parts of a Story (beginning, middle, end; then introduction/exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement)
• Addressing Envelopes
• Skimming & Scanning
• Sequence
• Silent & Oral Reading
• Conducting a Survey
• Notation of Scripture References
• Dictionary
• Glossary
• Telephone Book
• Identifying Fables
• Identifying Tall Tales
• Prepositions & Prepositional Phrases
• Compounding
• Conjunctions
• Ellipsis
• Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
• Paragraphs & Indentation
• Parts of a Letter
• Friendly Letter, Business Letter
• Invitation
• Report (gathering sources; opening, body, and closing paragraphs; introduction; conclusion; topic; topic sentence; supporting detail; supporting sentence)
• Essay
• Fact & Opinion
• Using Main Ideas in Writing
• Organizing Thought
• Supporting an Opinion
• Proof-reading
• Graphs (bar, line, & pie)
• Thesaurus
• Biography, Autobiography
• Encyclopedia
• Atlas
• Globe
• Family Tree
• Taking Notes
• Sentence Structure (subjects, verbs/predicates, complements)
• Adjectives
• Adverbs
• Modifiers/Qualifiers
• Articles
• Writing Modes
• Research Paper
• Coherence
• Plagiarism (vocabulary; not how-to!)
• Verifying Information
• Summary
• Editing & Drafts
• Bibliography
• Outlines
• Poetry & Prose
• Rhyme
• Psalm
• Personification
• Structural Poetry (acrostic, limerick, haiku, cinquain, diamante)
• Choral Reading
• Library Layout
• Dewey Decimal System
• Caldecott & Newbery Medals
• Newspapers & Newsletters
• Reporting
• Interviews
• Folk Tales
• Legends
• Root/Base Words, Prefixes, & Suffixes
• Etymology
• Syllables
• Quotations & Quotation Marks
• Conflict
• Narration
• Voice
• Point of View
• Dialogue
• Character Development
• Plot
• Foreshadowing
• Foil
• Play
• Lines of a Play
• Comedy & Tragedy
• Concordance
• Decision-making
• Revision
• Thesis Statement
• Types of Fiction
• Context
• Analogy
• Descriptive Writing
• Imagery/Figurative Language (cliche, exaggeration/hyperbole, understatement, idiom, malapropism, jargon, simile, metaphor, implied metaphor, onomatopoeia, irony, symbol, allegory)
• Allusion
• Dialect
• Alliteration
• Assonance & Consonance
• Paraphrase
• Bible Translations
• Clauses (main, subordinate)
• Embedding
• Commas
• Colons, Semicolons, Hyphens
• Parentheses & Brackets
• Rhythm
• Meter
• Rhythmic Foot
• Lines
• Rhyme Schemes
• Stanza
• Specific Forms of Poetry (advanced)
• Advertisements & Advertising Techniques
• Formal & Informal Writing
• Verbals (gerunds, gerundives, infinitives)
• Nouns as Adverbs
• Appositives
• Interjections
• Direct Address
• Noun Absolutes
• Delayed Subjects
• Retained Complements
• Post-positioned Adjectives
• Diagramming (optional)