Reading/Language Arts focuses on these five building blocks in a comprehensive curriculum that interweaves listening, speaking, reading, and writing. A reading and language arts program that supports each student’s learning style and level of achievement.Reading/language arts skills are essential for every child. And the latest research tells us that a strong reading program is built on five components:
- phonemic awareness
- phonics
- fluency
- vocabulary
- comprehension
Our interactive conversational interface engages students more deeply in the learning process, whether they are learning phonics or reading a novel. For young readers, a systematic and explicit instruction in phonics, meaningful instruction in context, and direct instruction in decoding and comprehension with unique decodable readers. The decodable readers are "versions" of the unit story designed with components that assist struggling readers with the text. As students progress from learning to read to reading to learn, Reading/Language Arts develops their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. The reading activities provide standards-based explicit instructional strategies, systematic teaching, modeling, and ample opportunities for students to practice and experience success.
Writing Tools
How do students become good writers?
Practice, practice, practice.
Like playing the cello or speaking fluent French, developing strong writing skills takes practice. Our CPA Virtual Academy has a word-processing program enriched with everything a student needs to become a confident writer: note cards, mind maps, templates, and more.Writer’s Corner(Kindergarten) and Story Creator (Grades 1-2) feature interactive learning environments where students learn to read, write, and express their thoughts. Children create their own unique stories with characters, scenery, and vocabulary words of their choosing.
For older students, Writer’s internal tools and customization options not only provide a clear, streamlined environment for the writing process, but they actually help students develop the skills they need to become successful writers. Odyssey Writer clarifies each individual step—from brainstorming to outlining to drafting and revision—and provides the tools and framework needed to make good writing second nature.Math: leading students through the exciting and challenging landscape of math.
Young students must acquire fundamental math skills in order to build a meaningful context for more advanced knowledge. So Math K-3 demystifies the world of numbers and engages them in math’s fascinating challenges and puzzles.For older students, the goal is to start building math skills that will be critical in their middle and high school years.
Math for levels 4-6 provides:
- rich, varied, and relevant content
- essential mathematics processes
- a mathematically rich environment that builds on students’ prior knowledge and abilities.
For all students, our interactive approach brings the world of math alive with highly engaging skill-building activities. These lessons employ real-world contexts in which students can apply ideas, tools, and manipulatives. And through the use of individualized assessment and instruction, lessons scaffold to build upon students’ previous knowledge and mastery.
Brain Buzzers are project-based activities that allow students to synthesize knowledge and critical thinking skills in areas across the curriculum. Using multiple intelligences, students engage in dynamic reading and writing projects that relate to science, art, music, social studies, and more.
Thematic Research Projectsfor grades 4-8. Students who can form and express well-reasoned opinions and arguments grow up to be thoughtful, interesting adults. And it’s vital to give young learners important topics and themes, so they can form opinions about things that really matter.Facts for Learning is a web-based, flexible research tool for students in grades 2-5 that takes advantage of the wide net of learning resources. From current events to world maps, fact-finding has never been so much fun.Facts for Learning features:
- archives of Weekly Reader articles
- access to The World Almanac
- a reference library
- an interactive dictionary
- encyclopedia articles
- links to informative web site
- an online atlas
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The CPA 7- High School Virtual Academy provides comprehensive online instructional content and assessments that ensures each student has the opportunity to achieve to his or her potential. Online diagnostic assessments pinpoint student strengths and weaknesses. Detailed reports performance information for individual students. Study plans help guide students to relevant instructional content that engages them in active learning experiences to master skills and develop conceptual understanding.