Our Level One is engineered to accelerate intermediate students who have an intuitive understanding of the fundamental aspects of English. Grammar and vocabulary fundamentals are used to build higher-order skills in reading and writing. Furthermore, logical reasoning, inferential skills, creative writing techniques, and literary appreciation are layered over a rigorous and scaffolded language framework.
Components
Creative Writing
Construct authentic and insightful texts of varying lengths that are expressive and insightful.
Reading Comprehension
Introduce students to increasingly dense texts across a wide range of genres to build true understanding and critical literacy.
Multimodal Texts
Analyse multimodal texts with graphics and other visual media with insightful contextual understanding.
Cloze Passage
Read passages with understanding of meaning, using idiomatic language and grammatical competence to fill in missing information.
Grammar
Introduce a diverse range of grammatical and syntactical structures to actively develop and transform sentences.
Vocabulary
Engage students with increasingly abstract, technical and literary vocabulary to enable them to engage with a diverse range of texts.
Speaking
Develop highly scaffolded and increasingly formalised verbal responses, including responses to multimodal texts.
The Academia Advantage
Liberal Arts Programme
Texts are carefully curated to explore a wide range of age-appropriate subjects across a plethora of social and cultural contexts.
Literary Techniques
Creative writing techniques are specifically engineered in-house to reflect age-appropriate literary techniques.
Critical Literacy
Using deconstruction and critical awareness questions, students learn to annotate in the margins and develop a critical understanding of various texts.
Global Pedagogies
Incorporating elements from Common Core standards and SSATs, students engage in various forms of verbal and logical reasoning.
Giftedness
These advantageous skills are apt for gifted programme selection rounds.