ENGLISH CURRICULUM, Grades 6-12

ENGLISH - SUPPLEMENTAL
Supplemental curricula serve many purposes. They may be used to provide additional, isolated, focused instruction and practice on a particular concept or skill. They are also used to enhance and increase interest in aspects of the course. The products listed below all have a vendor purchase price. Please check out the websites if you need "free" English supplemental curriculum.
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SUPPLEMENTAL - LANGUAGE ARTS
K - 6 Drops in the Bucket
Highly recommended supplement. Students work independently doing one systematic daily review practice in each of the10 skills, every day for 12 weeks. Some levels include a daily review of one spelling skill.
Reading and Language, Level P: For students reading independently at 1.0-2.0
Reading and Language, Level A: For students reading independently at 1.5-2.5
Reading and Language, Level B: For students reading independently at 2.0-2.5
Reading and Language, Level C: For students reading independently at 3.0-4.5
Reading and Language, Level D: For students reading independently at 4.0 and higher.
Older students would use this program for remediation.
http://www.frog.com/		 Frog Publications    
         

SUPPLEMENTAL - READING

2 - 8

Comprehensive Reading Assessment
A national test preparation book that diagnoses, instructs, gives practice, and assesses. Visually clean formatting, user-friendly workbook. Correlations are available. Great summer educational activity.
The book covers the following critical skills:
Identifying main idea
Identifying details
Identifying sequence
Making inferences
Identifying author's purpose
Identifying genre
Using context clues
http://www.optionspublishing.com/596.htm#ap-table
Options Publishing, http://www.optionspublishing.com/

 Options Publishing    
         

SUPPLEMENTAL - GRAMMAR

         

SUPPLEMENTAL - SPELLING

1 - 6+ Building Spelling Skills Daily Practice
Provides extra scaffolding for struggling students. Consumable practice books with spelling, visual memory, and editing exercises to improve spelling. The 3rd grade workbook has word lists of 15 words. Students in 3rd grade can be doing 20-25 words a week. So this program takes spelling a little slower with more word reinforcement. Pages have more white space.
http://www.evan-moor.com/
Evan-Moor    
7 - 12 The Spell of Words
Written as a supplement for older students with developmental dyslexia. It's14 lessons give a good condensed review of the most important spelling rules with practice exercises.
http://rainbowresource.com/		 Rainbow Resource Center    
         
SUPPLEMENTAL - ONLINE
K - 8

Brain POP
Brain Pop has animated movies that coordinate with school subjects K-8. Click on your state/subject/grade, select the standard and choose the animated movie clip to view that coordinates with that standard. Use Brain Pop to review individual California grade level standards, introduce a lesson, or make your child's learning more engaging and fun.
http://www.brainpop.com
Brain POP
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Yes
K - 12 Future School
Online English individualized teaching and tutoring coordinated with self-paced, interactive online lessons that are aligned to the student's curriculum.
http://www.futureschool.com/
FS Learning System