Language arts refers to the class of art forms, including novels, poetry, songs and others, that focus on the creation of art works which are primarily language based. The language arts are distinguished from other classes such as performing arts, visual arts, and culinary arts. The definition is not strict, and many art forms have aspects of the language arts as well other types of art. In colleges and universities this field is often referred to as "English studies." This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ... The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The word Culinary is defined as something related to, or connected with cooking or kitchens. ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics...

The six strands of the Language Arts are reading, writing, viewing, representing, listening, and speaking.

 sentence- a group of words that expresses a complete thought