Language Arts Curriculum
The Time To Know language arts program blends advanced technology and traditional teaching in a rich learning experience. It incorporates a constructivist, experiential approach with an interdisciplinary focus.
The curriculum covers the entire school year. The core thematic units and additional modular lessons are fully aligned to state standards, providing complete spiral coverage as well as preparation for standardized testing. The units emphasize reading and writing, listening, speaking, research skills, and focused vocabulary development.
The program empowers teachers to unleash their knowledge and pedagogical skills by providing tools and customizable content to facilitate inquiry-based learning that is both differentiated and collaborative.
Students are motivated to learn the language in context, working at their own level and pace to build new knowledge through multi-sensory activities presented in Interactive Language Rich Exploration Applets. The applets include cutting-edge technological features and applications that help deepen students' understanding.
Interactive Language Rich Exploration Applets
The Time To Know Interactive Language Arts Rich Exploration Applets are integrated into the lessons to help students build understanding.
The examples below are from the fourth-grade curriculum.
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Time To Know Curriculum Plan
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Language Arts Curriculum
Teacher's Manual Samples
Here students learn strategies to assist them in writing meaningful, well-structured, and grammatically correct sentences.
Strategies are taught through focused lessons, and students demonstrate understanding by applying the strategies in whole group, partner, and independent activities.
- Lesson 1. Students learn to recognize types of sentences and apply their knowledge by writing a paragraph using all four types.
- Lesson 2. Students analyze the structure of simple and complex sentences, and apply their knowledge by creating a flipbook.
This unit focuses the on the genre of fairy tales and helps students address the question, “Why does traditional and classical literature endure over time?”
Students learn to:
- Identify the structure and elements of literary fiction
- Sequence the main events of a fairy tale
- Read a Grimm fairy tale, The Frog Prince
- Determine the meaning of words using context clues
Teacher’s Manual Samples
The samples above are of the Time To Know language arts teacher’s manuals that provide teachers and instructional coaches with information and guidance to help them deliver digital and offline content in a blended learning environment.
Each themes unit teacher’s manual focuses on a single lesson, while the module teacher’s manuals cover all the lessons in the module, including:
- Overall unit rationale
- State standards covered in the unit
- Lesson flow
- Lesson objectives
- Suggestions for lesson implementation
- PAL vocabulary list
- Printables and passages
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