Language Arts

Grade 2

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 200 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use course. Each lesson begins with grammar and punctuation skills introduced in small increments. Next is review on material from the previous lesson and some of the material from earlier lessons. A daily penmanship activity is followed by practice on a weekly spelling word list.

The Teacher's Guide includes answers to the LightUnits, ideas, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests for students who need to redo a test. Answer keys are optional if the Teacher's Guide is purchased.

Grade 3

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 300 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use course. Each lesson begins with grammar and punctuation skills introduced in small increments. Next is review on material from the previous lesson and some of the material from earlier lessons. A daily penmanship activity is followed by practice on a weekly spelling word list.

The handy Language Arts Reference Chart for grades 3 and 4, a durably laminated two-sided information sheet, provides a quick resource for students who struggle to remember the parts of speech, punctuation rules, the parts of a friendly letter, and much more.

The Teacher's Guide includes answers to the LightUnits, ideas, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests for students who need to redo a test. Answer keys are optional if the Teacher's Guide is purchased.

Grade 4

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 400 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the material as well as more familiar skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

In addition to these basic English skills, students learn how to research information using encyclopedia and personal interviews, how to listen and take notes, and how to scan for specific information. Creative writing exercises use the book On Teaching Writing.

Answer keys are in list format and are required for the course. The teacher's guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Grade 5

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 500 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the latest material as well as more familiar, almost-mastered skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

In addition to the basic English skills, students learn how to recognize and diagram some of the more technical parts of speech. They focus on practical writing skills dealing with verb tenses, principal parts, and subject-verb agreement. Creative writing exercises are based on the book On Teaching Writing.

The optional Teacher's Guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Grade 6

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 600 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the latest material as well as more familiar, almost-mastered skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

In addition to the basic English skills, students study pronoun case and person as well as conjunctions and interjections. They learn to recognize and diagram appositives, complements, and direct and indirect objects in sentences. This study contains indepth paragraph writing based on the book On Teaching Writing.

The optional Teacher's Guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Grade 7

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 700 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the latest material as well as more familiar, almost-mastered skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

In LightUnit 707, students read But Not Forsaken, a book about refugees after WWII, and do a literary analysis of the story. This full-year course also covers active and passive voice, verbals, clauses, compound and complex sentence structure, writing an exposition, consistent verb tenses, and dangling/misplaced modifiers.

The optional Teacher's Guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Grade 8

Sunrise Edition

Language Arts 800 integrates grammar, spelling, and penmanship into one easy-to-use package. Grammar and punctuation skills are introduced incrementally at the beginning of each daily lesson, followed by exercises reviewing the freshest material as well as more familiar, almost-mastered skills. Each day’s lesson concludes with penmanship and spelling practice.

This full-year course includes a research paper project for the student to complete along with a standard bibliography. They are taught how to choose vivid verbs and eliminate redundancy in their writing. Also covered are transitive/intransitive verbs, basic and perfect tenses, concrete/abstract nouns, categorizing pronouns, elliptical clauses, and figures of speech.

The Teacher's Guide provides teacher's notes, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests.

Grade 12

Sunrise Edition

This ten-LightUnit, one-credit course is based on the textbook Perspectives of Truth in Literature, which uses selected quality literature to teach spiritual truth. The textbook has exercises to develop vocabulary, reading comprehension, thinking skills, and composition skills. The outline of the course is as follows:

Unit 1 Anthology of Literature About Truth
Unit 2 Short Story: Theme
Unit 3 Short Story: Character
Unit 4 Short Story: Plot
Units 5-7 Poetry
Units 8-10 Essay

Each LightUnit contains two quizzes and a test.

Grade 1

Sunrise 2nd Edition

Sunrise Language Arts 100 correlates with CLE Learning to Read and Sunrise Reading 100, but fits well with any phonics-based learning-to-read program. This thorough, phonics-based program teaches grammar, punctuation, communication skills, writing, spelling, and penmanship.

Concepts in the LightUnits are taught in small increments and reviewed over and over again to ensure mastery. Wall charts illustrate spelling and punctuation rules. Children who need extra penmanship practice will enjoy the beautifully illustrated workbook I Can Write Manuscript as they practice copying letters, numbers, words, short sentences, and simple poems on the theme of animal babies and their mothers.

Extra Language Arts practice sheets are available for those who need more drill.

The Teacher's Guide includes answers to the LightUnits, ideas, spelling word lists, useful appendices, and alternate LightUnit tests for students who need to redo a test.

All materials are revised, except the Language Arts Wall Charts. Revised materials will not work with the older course. If you wish to use the 1st edition, click here.

Learning to Read is also revised and is available now. For more information, click here.

Goals for the revision:

• Improve synchronization with other first grade courses.
• Improve the artwork and overall appearance.
• Make the workload more manageable for students.

Changes you can expect to find in the 2nd edition include:

• Lightened workload by eliminating unnecessary and repetitious work.
• Penmanship sections already covered in Learning to Read have been dropped from Language Arts.
• Phonics rules introduced in different sequence.