During the eight week Pre-Sentence course, students will be introduced to parts of speech, end punctuation, subject and predicates, commas, quotation marks and punctuation of titles. Students will also learn to recognize basic capitalization rules and proofreading strategies.

During the eight week course on writing Sensational Sentences, the student will be able to write complete sentences using all four sentence types: declarative, imperative, exclamatory, and interrogative. All sentences will be created using descriptive words, correct punctuation and correct verb tense.

Students will learn the parts of a paragraph as well as how to put them together to make a perfect paragraph. Learning to write different types of paragraphs and learning to write in chronological order, students will come away ready to start learning about essays.

Students will learn the parts of a paragraph as well as how to put them together to make a perfect paragraph. Learning to write different types of paragraphs and learning to write in chronological order, students will come away ready to start learning about essays.

Course Objectives: This course introduces elementary students to longer forms of writing. It prepares students for essay writing by engaging them in the process of writing various types paragraphs such as expository, persuasive, and narrative. The culminating activity of the course is writing a five paragraph narrative essay.