The ASLA Program offers an immersive English language arts curriculum which uses Into Reading published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) to form the core of its instructional materials. Into Reading is a new curriculum that leverages the most recent research in English language arts teaching and learning and is rapidly being adopted by American and International schools in Taiwan and abroad. It is a comprehensive program designed to meet the latest American standards in language arts for grades one through six. Using Into Reading allows us to use quality literature and learning materials as the foundation for the ASLA Program’s curriculum with a focus on continuous literacy development and targeted practice in the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. The educational goals and learning objectives of Into Reading are standardized and allow our students to work through a set sequence of materials at each grade level, preparing them to advance through the program successfully year to year.


To supplement the Into Reading curriculum, our certified and experienced teachers also design extension activities every month that focus less on rote workbook activities and more on the process of learning and the hands-on exploration of a topic of interest usually based on the literature covered over the month. Extension projects and activities allow students to experience and practice a variety of tasks and topics while using their English.