Curriculum of Eye Level English
Curriculum of Eye Level English is meticulously crafted around personalized learning plans, emphasizing language skills to enhance your child’s comprehension of the subject. Curriculum of Eye Level English is based on the U.S. Department of Education curriculum standards for English Language Arts and aligns with the National curriculum in England: English programmes of study.
Curriculum of Eye Level English is based on the U.S. Department of Education curriculum standards for English Language Arts and aligns with the National curriculum in England: English programmes of study. Questions and activities align with international exams, such as TOEFL, IETLS, and YLE.
Our unique syllabus is not just aligned to the standards, but also built upon them, fostering achievement beyond expected standards in reading, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, and grammar.
Curriculum Design of Eye Level English
Build Strong Foundational Literacy Skills
Phonemic Awareness | Phonics | Vocabulary | Fluency | Comprehension | Grammar / Writing
Learning Objectives
Basic – Pre-A and Level A
- Develop fundamental concepts and become familiar with pre-literacy skills
- Master all letters in the alphabet
- Name the letters of the alphabet
Eye Level English Pre-A
- Introduces fundamental concepts
- Develops motor skills and provides practice in basic writing strokes
- Introduces pre-literacy skills:
- Book and print awareness
- Phonological awareness
- Rhyming words
- Syllables
Eye Level English Level A
- Introduces the capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet
- Promotes recognition of capital and lowercase letters
- Provides exposure to nursery rhymes
- Develops fluency by saying picture names
Elementary – Level B, Level C and Level D
- Apply phonics knowledge and skills as the route to decode words
- Understand both the books they can already read accurately and fluently and those they listen to
- Apply simple spelling and grammar rules
- Write simple sentences
Eye Level English Level B
- Introduces beginning consonant sounds and beginning and middle short vowel sounds
- Develops phonemic awareness and letter-sound correspondence
- Provides practice in letter writing
- Introduces narrative stories and informational text
- Develops fluency by saying letter names, letter sounds, and picture names
Eye Level English Level C
- Introduces ending consonant sounds in one-syllable words
- Provides practice in blending, segmenting, and decoding consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words
- Expands vocabulary through the recognition of CVC words grouped by word families (onset and rime)
- Introduces double consonant sounds
- Teaches basic parts of speech and sentence structure
- Provides practice with comprehension strategies using picture prompts only
- Develops fluency by saying CVC words and sight words
Eye Level English Level D
- Introduces beginning and final consonant digraphs and consonant blends
- Provides practice with long vowel sounds made with the silent-e and y as a vowel (long i sound)
- Teaches additional basic parts of speech and subject-verb agreement
- Develops comprehension skills using illustrations and sentences
- Improves fluency by saying target phonics words and sight words
Upper Elementary – Level E, Level F and Level G
- Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills in reading
- Read books to build up fluency and confidence
- Explain and discuss their understanding of texts and other material
- Write from simple sentences and make simple additions, revision and corrections to their own writing
- Use and understand the basic grammatical terminology
Eye Level English Level E
- Introduces advanced phonics skills, such as r-controlled vowels, vowel combinations, inflectional endings, y as a vowel (long e sound), and syllable rules
- Covers irregular past tense and future tense verbs and writing questions
- Develops comprehension strategies in the context of short paragraphs
- Increases fluency by reading short paragraphs without picture support
Eye Level English Level F
- Introduces three-letter blends, consonant clusters, silent letters, and soft c and g sounds
- Continues development of parts of speech, such as adverbs, subjects and predicates, and objects
- Provides practice with comprehension strategies in the context of longer paragraphs
Eye Level English Level G
- Covers adjectives, adverbs, and abbreviations
- Provides in-depth instruction on different genres including fiction, cross-curricular informational texts, and different forms of narrative text
- Teaches spelling rules and homophones
Intermediate – Level H, Level I and Level 5
- Apply their growing knowledge of word studies (prefixes, suffixes etc..)
- Understand what they read, in books they can read independently
- Develop knowledge and skills in reading nonfiction about a wide range of subjects
- Write their ideas with a reasonable degree of accuracy and with good sentence punctuation.
- Become more familiar with and confident in using language in a greater variety of situations, for a variety of audiences and purposes
Eye Level English Level H
- Provides in-depth focus of text features such as parts of a book, features of informational texts, and print and online research sources
- Discusses word strategies to improve comprehension including understanding words with multiple meanings, Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, and shades of meaning
- Continues development of comprehension strategies including asking and answering questions, sequence of events, summarizing, and point of view
Eye Level English Level I
- Introduces advanced grammar topics such as verb tenses, irregular verbs, irregular plural nouns, and abstract nouns
- Teaches commonly misspelled and easily confused words
- Covers spoken and formal English
- Focuses on story structure (plot, problem and character, conflict, and resolution) and literacy devices (simile, metaphor, alliteration, and onomatopoeia)
- Continues in-depth development of comprehension strategies
Eye Level English Level 5
- Covers the four basic sentence types
- Provides in-depth focus on various comprehension strategies
- Introduces the basic elements of literature
- Discusses literary devices
- Provides instruction on descriptive writing, informational writing, letter writing, etc.
Advanced – Level 6, Level 7 and Level 8
- Read and understand increasingly challenging material independently
- Consolidate and build on their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary
- Appreciate our rich and varied literacy heritage
- Write accurately, fluently, effectively adapting their writing for a wide range of purposes and audiences
- Are competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making format presentations, demonstrating to others participating in debate
Eye Level English Level 6
- Builds the linguistic foundation to read and comprehend content-based texts
- Identifies structural patterns found in informational text
- Discerns the structural features of literature
- Provides instruction on narrative writing, reports, summarization, letter writing, etc.
Eye Level English Level 7
- Provides practice on writing compound and complex sentences and correcting sentence fragments or incomplete sentences
- Covers multiple comprehension strategies
- Extends the range of academic vocabulary
- Provides instruction on writing five-paragraph narratives and expository Compositions
Eye Level English Level 8
- Covers critical text analysis
- Identifies instances of fallacious reasoning, fact/opinion, bias, and misinformation
- Delves deeper into five-paragraph compositional writing of descriptive, narrative, persuasive, and expository genres
Download the curriculum chart. Warning: The terrain is a bit complex 😆.
Learning Contents of Eye Level English
Basic Reading
Basic Writing
Elementary Reading
Elementary Writing
Upper Elementary Reading
Upper Elementary Writing
Intermediate Reading
Intermediate Writing
Advance Reading
Built Upon Various Common Standards
Eye Level English is built upon CCSS and correlated with National curriculum in England: English programmes of study.
Align with International Exams
Questions and activities in Eye Level English include question types commonly found in high-stakes international exams such as TOEFL, IETLS, and YLE (Cambridge).
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Your inquiries about Eye Level English’s Curriculum, answered
The Eye Level curriculum is aligned with the recommendations from the US Department of Education’s curriculum standards for English Language Arts. In addition to covering concepts covered in schools, as a supplemental education provider, we are often able to provide additional concepts and a deeper immersion in skill acquisition (e.g. reading comprehension, critical thinking) beyond what the schools cover.
Reading relies on the acquisition of pre-literacy skills (e.g. alphabetic principle, knowledge of the world, phonemic awareness). Many children are exposed to these at home or in the pre-school environment, but Eye Level also has materials to bolster these pre-literacy skills while simultaneously beginning to instruct the child to learn how to read.
The best approaches to reading combine phonics, sight words and language in context, rather than relying on just one of these approaches. Eye Level takes such a balanced approach.
After learning to recognize, say, and write the alphabet, students begin to identify specific sound-letter correspondence, using simple words. Students begin to decode words (phonics) and
simple sentences. Students also learn to memorize key sight words. Then, the student can begin to read words and sentences that they have not seen before.
Students need frequent, repeated exposure to language and learning-to-read materials before they acquire the ability to read. Eye Level provides such a program.