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The Eleven-Year-Old: School Subjects

Curriculum
What does your eleven-year-old study at school? Find out what your kids' teachers have in store for them this year in:

Reading

  • Week-long reading assignments begin, still utilizing trade books

  • Increased use of non-fiction reading tied to subject area knowledge

  • Biographies a favorite

  • Enjoy reading to children in younger grades, especially helpful for less fluent readers

    Writing

  • Writing -- Benefit greatly from the opportunity to rehearse their writing; plot, character, style, personal interest in varied subject matter all expand and begin to take on characteristics of "adult" writing; research report writing still very rudimentary and tied to source material; poetry writing a favorite as is cartooning; revision can be a struggle

  • Spelling -- Accurate or difficult depending on child; most enjoy challenge of difficult words; dictionary skills emphasized

  • Writing Themes -- Quite varied and individual for advanced writers; blood and gore, fantasy, science fiction, love and romance

  • Handwriting -- Functional for most

    Thematic Units
    Social Studies, Science, Current Events

  • Games; history; biography; government; community service; physical development, the body systems; plant growth and other forms of systematic measurement

    • Mathematics

  • Complicated word problems

  • Probability and statistics through real problems

  • Use of calculator and computer in mathematics

  • Computation for speed and accuracy

  • Percentage

    From Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 by Chip Wood, © 1997 by Northeast Foundation for Children (800) 360-6332. All rights reserved as permitted under the US copyright Act of 1976. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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