COMING AUGUST 2026
The Baran Method: Language Arts
Understanding, Organizing, and Communicating Ideas
The Baran Method: Language Arts is a comprehensive three-year middle school curriculum designed to be used alongside The Baran Method: Writing for Success. Much like colleges and universities teach composition and literature as complementary subjects, The Baran Method teaches writing and language arts as connected disciplines. Students learn how to organize and communicate their thinking in Writing for Success, then continually apply and strengthen those same skills throughout Language Arts. As they study literature, nonfiction, research, argument, and speech, they continue developing the thinking and writing skills introduced in Writing for Success and reinforced through its accompanying workbook, which provides ongoing writing practice throughout the school year.
Writing is organized thinking.
Writing is where students learn to organize and communicate their ideas. The same organized thinking students learn through writing is applied throughout language arts. Whether discussing literature, explaining nonfiction, conducting research, writing arguments, or delivering speeches, students rely on the same underlying process: organizing ideas before communicating them.
The Baran Method teaches this process first through writing, then applies it across the rest of language arts. As a result, students approach every reading, discussion, writing, and speaking activity with a framework for organizing and communicating their thinking. Instead of struggling with how to organize and communicate their ideas, students are better prepared to focus on understanding, analyzing, and communicating what they have learned.