Grace Academy strives to utilize all forms of learning; visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. We seek to identify each child's unique learning style and teach to that style. In order to achieve this, we use a solid Christian curriculum, enhanced with several unique learning programs designed to utilize the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic aspects. These are outlined below.
A Beka Book Curriculum offers a treasury of textbooks and teaching materials taht reflect the very best in scholarship, design, practicality, and Scriptural fidelity. The A Beka book approach to Christian education keeps learning lively, interesting, and memorable. The materials reflect sensible theory that is firmly anchored to practicality. A Beka Book materials have been developed as a result of more than 45 years of actual classroom experience in Pensacola Christian Academy, one of America's largest and most respected Christian day schools. Grace Academy owns all the teaching materials, reading books, and student textbooks for the A Beka Book Curriculum grade K-12.
Spelling Power is an eight-level series that teaches spelling skills as a developmental process within a total language program. Spelling Power utilizes 1,825 high frequency words over the course of the program to improve spelling accuracy in everyday writing. Exercises are designed to help students meet the phonetic, visual, and semantic demands of expert spelling, as well as developing proofreading and dictionary skills. The ultimate goal is to integrate spelling with listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking.
The Shurley Method is an interactive English curriculum that uses grammar to teach students the structure and design of their written language. The interactive daily lessons include practice of old skills while new skills are being added. The Question and Answer Flow as well as Jingles teach how all the parts of a sentence fit together. Students are constantly exposed to the "see it, hear it, say it, do it" activities that meet the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. The Shurley method provides the tools for excellent writing, higher order thinking skills, and heightened self-confidence in grasping the English language, which carries over into other academic studies. The Shurley Method is used in the intermediate and middle school grades.
The Scottish Rite Reading Program teaches basic literacy skills to children who are exhibiting symptoms of dyslexia. The program was developed by the Luke Waites Child Development Center at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The program is clincal in nature and takes at least two years to complete. Research shows that it has been highly successful in assisting students who are struggling in Reading. Grace Academy offers this program during the school day, four days a week, to those students who qualify.
Math-U-See is a multi-sensory math curriculum that focuses on learning mathematical concepts that are critical to problem solving. The program utilizes hands-on manipulatives and a "build it, see it, write, it, say it" approach in order to engage students whether they learn best kinesthetically, visually, or auditorily. Students learn their math facts, rules, formulas, and how to apply them to everyday situations. Math-U-See begins at the foundational kindergarten level and continues through pre-calculus. The goal is to produce confident problem solvers who enjoy the study of math. Math-U-See is used as a supplement to the traditional A Beka math program.
Davis Learning Strategies provide children with the conceptual skills needed to develop reading fluency and comprehension. At its heart are techniques for focusing attention and understanding the meaning and roles of the most commonly encountered symbols and function words of language. The most important technique is the use of clay to model letters and words. These research based strategies also help children develop excellent visual memory of key words, which complements and enhances phonetic decoding skills. This approach will enhance the classroom learning experience in the primary grades, and pave the way for success in later years. The Davis Learning Strategies are used with our students with dyslexia.
See It Right! is a program which uses colored overlays to reduce visual distortions or discomfort that often accompanies looking at black letters on white paper. Colored overlays can help students with eye strain, headaches, comprehension, and general reading difficulties. Grace Academy also implements the use of as much natural light as possible, as opposed to all fluorescent lighting. We also seek to use font texts and font sizes that are easy to read and non-distorting.
Grace Academy strives to utilize all forms of learning; visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. We seek to identify each child's unique learning style and teach to that style. In order to achieve this, we use a solid Christian curriculum, enhanced with several unique learning programs designed to utilize the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic aspects. These are outlined below. 
A Beka Book Curriculum offers a treasury of textbooks and teaching materials taht reflect the very best in scholarship, design, practicality, and Scriptural fidelity. The A Beka book approach to Christian education keeps learning lively, interesting, and memorable. The materials reflect sensible theory that is firmly anchored to practicality. A Beka Book materials have been developed as a result of more than 45 years of actual classroom experience in Pensacola Christian Academy, one of America's largest and most respected Christian day schools. Grace Academy owns all the teaching materials, reading books, and student textbooks for the A Beka Book Curriculum grade K-12.
Math-U-See is a multi-sensory math curriculum that focuses on learning mathematical concepts that are critical to problem solving. The program utilizes hands-on manipulatives and a "build it, see it, write, it, say it" approach in order to engage students whether they learn best kinesthetically, visually, or auditorily. Students learn their math facts, rules, formulas, and how to apply them to everyday situations. Math-U-See begins at the foundational kindergarten level and continues through pre-calculus. The goal is to produce confident problem solvers who enjoy the study of math. Math-U-See is used as a supplement to the traditional A Beka math program. 
