Let’s Talk Language Arts
This week’s Blog Cruise Question asks: What are your favorite resources for the ages and grades that you are teaching? I’ve decided that I want to explore my favorite resources for Language Arts. Language Arts as a subject might better be expressed as the Art of Communication. As a subject LA strives to teach the skills necessary for communication. We can categorize these skills into two very broad areas: Receptive and Expressive. Within receptive language skills we find reading and listening skills. Forms of expressive language skills include writing and speaking. For years I’ve tried to find a comprehensive Language Arts Curriculum that covered all the skills my girls needed to communicate effectively. After 14 years, I still haven’t found the one single LA program that “does it all” in a way that works for us. Instead, I’ve found that it has really helped to break down those skills and then seek products that work best for my famil...