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Be Vocabulary Wise With Wordly Wise Grade Eight Part One

Completed by 17 learners
Ages 10-15
Live Group Class
In this multi-day course for grade eight, students will learn new vocabulary words by explanation, discussion, word puzzles and reading comprehension. This class meets twice a week for ten weeks.
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(129 reviews)

Live video meetings
2x per week, 10 weeks
3-7 learners per class
45 min

What's included

20 live meetings
15 in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. This is a small group educational setting. Students get individual help. Students will learn vocabulary words vital to increased growth in their word base. The goal is to internalize these words. Students will be made more aware of the words in their world and be able to add them to their normal spoken and written vocabulary. Reading comprehension naturally increases because of added knowledge of new words. My other important goal is to get the student excited about reading and learning new words!
Assessment
The best evidence of this class will be when the students begin to use on their own, the words we are studying! Students will not be graded with a letter grade. Students will grade their own work during class. Students will have their knowledge checked by an assessment weekly through our Kahoot Quiz.

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8
Advanced Level
In this small group learning setting, the students will greatly improve their reading comprehension by increasing their vocabulary base by learning the vocabulary words from Wordly Wise 3000 Grade eight, part one. This ten-week course is the teaching of the first half of the grade eight book. You may buy edition three or edition four.  The words and stories are the same in both editions. There are fifteen words in each lesson in the book. Each week will cover one lesson.  The words will be explained by the teacher, using colorful and interesting slides with an example sentence. Each word has a colorful slide to help students understand the meaning of the word.   A discussion of each word will be given, including the different parts of speech of each word.  Practice will be provided by using five approaches: finding the meaning using whatever part of speech, using context clues to find just the right word in the sentence, applying the meaning of the word, using the correct form of the word, then reading a narrative using the fifteen words in the lesson.  Each lesson includes a nonfiction narrative of high interest.  My learning style is informal with lots of student interaction. We end day two of the week with an exciting Kahoot quiz!  Kahoot Quizes is a third-party media that is approved by Outschool for use during the lessons.  These quizzes are questions based on the fifteen vocabulary words covered in each of the ten lessons.

Multi-day course: Weekly class routine: One day per week

Day One of each week:
* Discuss each of the 15 vocabulary words using the colorful accompanying slide.  
* Practice saying the word together.  The teacher will show a picture of the word and discuss its part of speech and usage. 
* Modeling the word in several sentences so students can hear the word using in context.  
*Enrichment provided by higher-level questioning.
* Complete activities A and B  in the workbook together in class
* Outside of class before day two of the week, students will 
    1.  Complete activities C and D
    2.  Read the weekly story and complete the 15 comprehension questions by day two of the week.  
Day Two of the Lesson:
* The correct answers for activities A and B will be given, along with a discussion of the correct answers.
* The reading passage for the week will be read.  The topic for the weekly stories are listed below. Students are invited to read aloud or the teacher will read the passage.
* The comprehension questions will be discussed as a group activity each week.
* A Kahoot quiz will be given to check the students' understanding of the words.
*Every four lessons, the students enjoy a crossword puzzle using the words from those lessons.

Each week will follow the same schedule.  
There are 20 lessons in the book.  This multi-day course will cover the FIRST half of the book and last for ten weeks.
The reading passages include the following subject matter for the ten weeks:

Week one:  	A Poet of the People:  Maya Angelo
Week two:  	The Iceman: (found in 1991 in Germany)
Week three: 	Telling Tales:  folk tales 
Week four: 	The Tiger's Whisker:  A Korean folktale
Week five:  	The Bounty, Part One (The story of Captain in 1789)
Week six:  	The Bounty, Part Two
Week seven: 	Women in Space, Part One (Women who began with NASA in 1978)
Week eight: 	Women in Space, Part Two
Week nine:     The Children of the Bounty  (Life on the Pitcarin Island, tiny island in the South Pacific)
Week ten: 	Rigoberta Menchu : Nobel Prize winner from Guatemala in 1992)

Learning Goals

This is a small group educational setting.  Students get individual help. Students will learn vocabulary words vital to increased growth in their word base. The goal is to internalize these words.  Students will be made more aware of the words in their world and be able to add them to their normal spoken and written vocabulary.  
Reading comprehension naturally increases because of added knowledge of new words.
My other important goal is to get the student excited about reading and learning new words!

Other Details

Parental Guidance
The only material used in this class is from the workbook that parents are buying for their child, Wordly Wise book Eight. The stories used are at the end of each of the ten lessons. The stories do not change from those listed in the book. I have listed the topic of each of the ten stories in the Class Description part above. There is no supplemental material in this class. There is nothing scary or frightening in any of these passages.
Supply List
For the multi-day course, students will be required to purchase a workbook:  Wordly Wise 3000 Grade Eight 3rd The cover of edition three has two large W's that are purple and orange.   These are available on Amazon new or used for various prices. 
Either book is fine.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
For the multi-day course, students will be required to purchase a workbook: Wordly Wise 3000 Grade Eight 3rd edition. The third edition cover has two large W's that are purple and orange. These are available on Amazon new for $20 or used for various prices.

Meet the teacher

Joined June, 2020
5.0
129reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Master's Degree in Education from West Georgia College/University System of Georgia
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Tennessee Temple College
This fall marks my 52st year to teach, as I started teaching in 1972.  Of all of the things I have ever taught, I love teaching vocabulary the most because of its value to the learner.  Why should a parent chose me as a teacher?  Check my reviews and you will see that parents appreciate my warm relationships to their children.  I believe I inspire learning and my classes are fun! 
As a retired teacher of 33 years, I have taught this same Wordly Wise curriculum in a public classroom for many years.  I feel excited and comfortable to be sharing this knowledge with students.  I truly feel if the student is interested, and will complete the work, this class will make a huge difference in the life of the student!  It just may be a game changer!  

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