LAR utilizes many techniques to help students learn the content. This is done by breaking the concepts down into smaller/targeted concepts, utilizing color coding, charts, mnemonics, graphics, audio clips, easy-to-grasp written and/or auditory explanations that students can internalize with ease; font size for emphasis; practice quizzes for students to self-check for understanding; level quizzes that progress from surface knowledge  --> to connecting several concepts --> to applying the content to practical examples. 

These learning techniques are especially beneficial for students who are English Language Learners (ELL), Limited English Proficient (LEP), English As Second Language (ESL), Special Education (SPED), and/or Sect. 504 students.

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You will be able to analyze the persuasive impact of rhetorical structures and devices in famous speeches.

You will be able to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence that supports or opposes an argument.

You will be able to write a short story with interesting and believable characters.

You will be able to write a short story with a well-developed conflict and resolution.

You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.

Given a prompt, you will write a short story.

You will learn how to make inferences and draw conclusions about similar themes in various texts by finding supporting evidence within the texts.

You will become acquainted with the origins and meanings of foreign words and phrases frequently used in English texts.

You will learn how to use dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauri in order to determine meanings of words and phrases, including their denotations, connotations, and etymologies.

You will apply what you learned in previous lessons, (1) Linguistic Roots and Affixes, (2) Denotation and Connotation, (3) Origins and Meanings of Foreign Words, (4) Cognates, and (5) Reference Materials, to improve your fluency and comprehension.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of capitalization rules in a proofreading exercise.

Students will learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.

You will learn proofreading techniques to use in checking for correct punctuation.

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

You will practice evaluating, adding to, and combining sentences in order to create sentence variety.

You will practice strategies for evaluating and revising parallel structure in an essay.

You will be able to distinguish between the denotative (dictionary) meaning of a word and its connotative (emotions or associations that are implied rather than literal) meaning.

You will be able to recognize and explain the purpose of understatement and overstatement in a text.

You will be able to evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.