• This section should be completed when the student first accesses the program.
• Skills are developed here so that students are able to effectively complete activities in the different Locations

• Identify and name major parts of a sentence
• Use modifiers, including prepositional phrases, correctly and with increasing effectiveness
• Use a variety of sentence structures
• Know and apply conventions in Simple, compound and complex sentences
• Use a variety of subordinate clauses correctly and appropriately for their purposes

• Use periods consistently after initials, after abbreviations containing lower-case letters and in decimal numbers
• Use parentheses appropriately

• Know spelling conventions and apply them to familiar and unfamiliar words
• Use and spell correctly the vocabulary for these grades
• Spell a wide variety of commonly used word
• Identify some generalizations about spelling and use them to spell difficult and unfamiliar words
• Use a variety of resources to spell difficult and unfamiliar words
• Understand the vocabulary and language structures appropriate for this grade

The tutorial focuses on narrative elements of plot setting and character. They complete a variety of activities including a detailed plot graph.

This tutorial focuses on poetic devices (Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Simily, Metaphor, and Personification)

• Creating song lyrics for accompany music
• Creation of a parody of a nursery rhyme, and childhood memory poem
• Writing a dramatic monologue

Focuses on script writing, how to write a dialogue for a play.

• The writing process is followed as students compose a monologue and play script

This section focuses on writing skills for the real World of work.

• Memo – Form and structure
• E-Mail – Components of an E-Mail
• Business Letter – Format of a business letter

Focus is placed on linking paragraphs and using a variety of sentence structures

• Identify various types of media works
• Create a variety of media works
• Analyze and interpret media works
• Use the conventions of oral language
• Listen to organize and classify information and thinking
• Produce media texts using writing and materials from other media
• Use special terminology
• Describe the function of different elements in various media
• Rehearse and revise materials to prepare for presentations