As-Suffah Academy · Curriculum

Pacing guides and teaching materials. Open a subject to see the grid, then open a lesson for its brief, slides, student sheet and teacher edition.

Grammar

Michael Clay Thompson — Poodle, Grammar Island, Grammar Town, Magic Lens, The Grammar of Literature

Four levels of grammar every year in a harder book — parts of speech, parts of the sentence, phrases, clauses.

Grades 1–8 · 1120 lessons
1: 140 · 2: 140 · 3: 140 · 4: 140 · 5: 140 · 6: 140 · 7: 140 · 8: 140

Phonics

Blumenfeld's Alpha-Phonics

All 129 lessons in every grade, at three speeds. Sound to syllable to word to sentence, with explicit mouth articulation.

Grades K–2 · 373 teaching days
K: 184 · 1: 113 · 2: 76

Reading

Science and social studies as reading, plus the novels — read against Michael's Four Scaffolds (EMSIPS ch.32)

Knowledge and literature braided. The scaffolds come off across eight years, ending in AVID margin questions.

Grades 1–8 · 1120 lessons
1: 140 · 2: 140 · 3: 140 · 4: 140 · 5: 140 · 6: 140 · 7: 140 · 8: 140

Vocabulary

MCT — Building Language, Caesar's English 1 & 2, Vocabulary of Literature, Word Within the Word

Latin and Greek stems — the register the science and social studies books are written in. Starts only once grammar has the parts of speech in hand.

Grades 1–8 · 1120 lessons
1: 140 · 2: 140 · 3: 140 · 4: 140 · 5: 140 · 6: 140 · 7: 140 · 8: 140

Math

Dimensions Math (Singapore) — Textbooks 1A through 7B

Paced from the book itself, blocked practice interleaving every third lesson. One worked example and two guided ones stand in front of every problem the book asks.

Grades 1–7 · 816 teaching slots
1: 66 · 2: 124 · 3: 134 · 4: 132 · 5: 132 · 6: 88 · 7: 140

Writing

MCT — Sentence Island, Paragraph Town, Essay Voyage, Advanced Academic Writing

A sentence drill, the MCT spine, quarterly road-map projects, and an editing checklist built from grammar already taught.

Grades 1–8 · 1120 lessons
1: 140 · 2: 140 · 3: 140 · 4: 140 · 5: 140 · 6: 140 · 7: 140 · 8: 140