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In the area of education, teaching language arts is one of the most crucial and critical elements in the process of learning. In elementary education teachers must ensure that an effective language arts program is a complete, orderly, and clear program that involves activities that fit to state and/or national standards teaching essential skills and strategies by using activities that are organized to meet those objectives. They must also engage students with active participation to foster learning yet set clear and high expectations and differentiate instruction according to assessed needs as progress monitoring and assessment is used to determine if those objectives and standards have been achieved. While reading, writing, listening, and speaking are considered the main components of language Arts viewing, and visually representing have become just as important due to the nature of visual media (Roe & Ross, 2006). The skills all build upon each other from one grade to the next and all areas are equally as important in becoming a literate individual. Reading, which is the ability to understand written language, is the most important goal of any comprehensive language arts program. The foundational skills that the students master in kindergarten and the first grade will determine the success, or failure, of the students reading abilities in the later grades. Often when students first enter school they are able to read some letters, their name, and perhaps a few sight words and other words that they see on a regular basis in their home environment (Roe & Ross, 2006). To nurture an understanding of reading, students must first develop their phonemic awareness, which is the relationship between words that are heard and the phonemic structure of language. Students then progress to learning more about phonics, the letter and sound correspondence used to identify words, which is very fundamental to independent, effortless, and rapid word recognition. After students

References: Roe, B. D., & Ross, E. P. (2006). Integrating language arts through literature and thematic units. (1st ed., pp. 8-13). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. Retrieved from http://www.education.com/ reference/article/language-arts/