Understanding sounds through letter recognition, blending, and decoding.

Developing critical thinking skills through pre-reading, making inferences, asking questions, summarizing, analyzing characters, and identifying cause and effect.

Practicing skills in spelling, punctuation, parts of speech, and sentence types.

Understanding multiple-meaning words, synonyms, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, and context clues. 

Learning the writing process, sentence and paragraph structure, sequencing, and creative thinking structure.