Phonics
Our Phonics/Reading program gives a thorough, enjoyable and highly teachable phonics approach to reading. Besides building the necessary background for confident reading, phonics teaching trains students to listen carefully, to obey willingly, and to develop good habits of thinking, analyzing organizing, memorizing, and applying important facts and rules.

Language Arts
The A Beka Book Language Arts Program has been developed and refined over the past 40 years to bring about the following objectives:
·Sharpen thinking skills
· Increase ability to read with comprehension appreciation and discernment
· Educate students in traditional grammar and standard usage and mechanics
· Increase writing, speaking, and reading vocabularies
· Refine ability to write clearly and effectively
· Ensure confident, correct spelling
· Train students to be comfortable with correct grammar, pronunciation, and usage in conversation and other forms of speech
· Teach essential research skills
· Give a variety of public-speaking opportunities and aids
· Refine Listening Skills
· Teach study skills

Reading Program
The highly acclaimed phonics-first A Beka Book Reading Program leads to early independence in reading by developing early work-analysis and comprehension skills. By the end of the first grade, all students can read with comprehension and writing with understanding. The wide variety of quality reading selections stimulates your student's enjoyment of reading and appreciation of literature. The beautiful illustrations in the Reading Program instructs, inspires and sparks the imagination.

Spelling

1st -3rd Grade
A Beka Book has designed a fate-paced comprehensive skill-teaching system that makes spelling "second nature" to young writers. This straight forward teaches practice/test approach has two important advantages: it is economical and it works!

4th - 5th Grade
The fast-paced, comprehensive skills teaching approach to spelling is very simple; we just give the students a carefully selected list of spelling words each week and practice their words until they are able to spell them correctly. Dictionary tips, and dictated sentences provide extra reinforcement without taking much class time.

6th Grade
The sixth grader should be constantly guided to see how grammar applies to his writing and speaking. This book gives a thorough, systematic presentation of grammar, composition, and mechanics in a clear and appealing manner. Of special help to the student and teacher are the explanations and demonstrations of the writing process. Students who use this program are not "afraid of composition." Two of the features of this language text that students and teachers appreciate are the cumulative Looking Back sections at the end of each unit and The Student Writer's Handbook, the writing reference section at the end of the book.

An integrated approach to Language Arts
In grades 1-3, the weekly spelling lists are arranged phonetically so that students will be able to identify the sounds they hear with the patterns they see. In grades 4 book features a phonics key for each lesson. The book for grade 5 focuses on usage, pronunciation, and work-analysis skills. When these books are used as an integral part of the entire A Beka Book Language Arts Program, students see how phonics, spellings, composition, vocabulary, penmanship, reading, and grammar go hand in hand as tools for the effective use of God's gift of language.

A variety of brief, interesting games and activities allow students to see the works in context, practice dictionary and syllabication skills, use the works in compositions, and increase their vocabularies as they work with rhyming words, synonyms, homonyms, and other word groups.

A continuous vocabulary-building program
Vocabulary study begins in second grade and increases in number of words and complexity as the student mature. In grades 4, and 5, vocabulary exercises are included with each week lesson.

Homework pages
Perforated Homework Pages for each list.

Each book includes carefully selected poetry for student memorization.

Science/Health
A Beka Book Science and Health Program present the universe as the direct creation of God and refute the man-made idea of evolution. Further, the books present God as the Great Designer and Lawgiver, without whom the evident design and laws of nature would be inexplicable. They give students a solid foundation in all areas of science -a foundation firmly anchored to Scriptural truth. Teaching ability is assured through accurate, interesting writing, carefully planned demonstrations that can be performed with a minimum of equipment, chapter terms and questions, full color illustration, consideration of the interest and comprehension skills of students at each grade level, and detailed curriculum/Lesson Plans.

Art
Each of these books for primary grades appears in full color for students! The brilliantly colored artwork is on perforated pages for easy removal.