The students will greatly improve their vocabulary base by direct vocabulary instruction from Wordly Wise Book One- Grade Four, part two. This twenty-week course is the teaching of the SECOND half of the grade four book.   There are fifteen words in each of the twenty lessons 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. These slides help students understand the meaning of the words.   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 usually end day two of the week with an exciting Kahoot quiz!  

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 through discussion and the comprehension questions.

* Outside of class before day two of the week, students will 
    1.  Complete activities A, B, C, and D
    2.  Read the weekly story and complete the comprehension questions from the passage.  

Second time we meet for the same 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.
* As time permits, 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 SECOND half of the book and last for twenty weeks.
The reading passages include the following subject matter for the twenty weeks:
Week one:  	Maple Sugaring
Week two:  	Communicating with Koko
Week three: 	Anne Frank’s Diary
Week four: 	 How Water Lilies Began
Week five:  	The Rise and Fall of the Bald Eagle
Week six:  	The Story of Johnny Appleseed 
Week seven: 	An Eastern African Folktale: How the Maskini and the Tajari Began
Week eight: 	The Great Wall of China   (Teacher’s note:  I have been there!)
Week nine: 	 Martha Graham: Artist and Teacher
Week ten: 	 The Story of William Tell