This is a comprehensive reading enrichment class designed to develop reading fluency and expression, comprehension skills, related reading and language skills and written responses to literature based on Raz-kids online stories.  Raz-kids is a widely used onlyline reading program using leveled stories based on the Fountas and Pinnell reading scale.  Class will be held twice each week and will focus on a different story each week that is independent of each other.   The first class of each week will begin with an exploration of ten to twelve vocabulary words related to the story of the week, giving attention to spelling, part of speech and multiple meanings of each word.  Next the class will engage in a discussion designed to peak the students interest in the topic of the story that they are about to read.  Then the class will take turns reading the story orally using good tone and expression.  Role playing activities help improve these skills may be added as needed for each story.  The first class of the week will end with comprehension discussion using a hierarchy of questions ranging from simple recall to critical thinking skills. The second class of each week will focus on language skill, reading skills and writing skills. Students will engage in a variety of activities that cover skills such as affixes, synonyms and antonyms, prepositional phrases, sequence of events, fact or opinion, inference, summarizing, main idea and details.  This class will end with a writing proft for the students to complete in their writing journal. This comprehensive class will be offered beginning in September and held consistently throughout the school year until May. Attending every week will give your reader the most benefit by promoting the broadest experience in reading and language skills.

Schedule
Week of Sept 4
Story:  Animals Feel Emotion (Level S)
Topics
Vocabulary:  abandon, amputated, compassion, devotion, ecstatically, eventually, evidence, instincts, loyalty, malignant, passive, 
                       rambunctious
Language: Compound Sentences
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Summarizing Skills
Journal:  Writer Response

Week of Sept 11
Story:  April Fools Day (Level S)
Topics
Vocabulary:  consumer, disguises, hoax, media, naive, pranks, spoof, traditional, victim
Language: Use Commas after introductory words
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skilll: Main Idea and Details
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Sept 18
Story:  Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (Level T)
Topics
Vocabulary:  cavern, gleaming, impressed, kingdom, magician, murmured, peddler, potion, transformed
Language: Suffixes -full, -ness
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Sequencing events in a story
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Sept 25
Story:  Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight
Topics
Vocabulary:  bloomers, disappeared, expeditions, legend, navigator, patchy, pilots, tailspin, telegrams
Language: homophones, compound sentences
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Sequencing events in a story
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Oct 2
Story:  Ants in My Bed
Topics
Vocabulary: abdomen, cedar shakes, cocoons, colony, dismay, larvae, moat, nodes, obstacle, pupae, saliva, stemboats, thorax, tide
Language: synonyms/antonyms
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Problem/Solution in literature
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Oct 9
Story:  Art Around Us
Topics
Vocabulary:  blowpipe, casting, ceramic, chisel, found object art, glaze, installation, kiln, loom, mosaics, murals, pottery wheel, 
                      soft sculptures, weaver
Language: recognizing past tense verbs
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Fact vs Opinion
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Oct 16
Story:  Alice's Birthday Cake
Topics
Vocabulary:  blackout, canned goods, disappointed, ration book, responsibility, sacrifices, scrap, shipped out, warden
Language: suffixes and prefixes
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Making, revising, confirming predictions to better understand literature
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Oct 23
Story:  Bats in the Attic
Topics
Vocabulary:  bloodworms, Bon appetit, dimples, driftwood, ebb, echolocation, pups, rabies, secluded, snout, tides, tines, waded
Language: identify and use articles
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: idioms
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Oct 30 
Story:  Arrows
Topics
Vocabulary:  carbon dating, Choctaw, cipher, code, Code Talkers, deciphered, glyph, interpret, research, substituted, translate, undergrowth
Language: Identify and describe use of pronouns
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Making inferences
Journal: Writer Response

Week of Nov 6
Story:  Adventures in London
Topics
Vocabulary:  chme, clockwork, coincidences, double-decker, energetic, monarch,Parliament, prime minister, tourists, trinket, turnstile, turrets
Language: prepositional phrases, synonyms and antonyms
Comprehension: Discussion Cards and Quiz
Reading Skill: Determining Purpose in piece of literature
Journal: Writer Response

More stories and skills will be added