Beginning Reading With a Chapter Book: Humphrey's Tiny Tales

In this class we will read and discuss the book Really Wheely Racing Day, one of the short books from the Humphrey's Tiny Tales series.  Students are to read the assigned pages before the first class hour. Class periods will be made up of reading and discussing parts of the text together and also working on various Language Arts activities during class time. Skills that will be covered are:

Subject and predicate
Possessives
Past, present and future tense verbs
Characters, plot, setting of a story

Day 1 – Discuss pages 1-30; Discuss the subject and predicate of a sentence. 
Day 2 – Discuss pages 31-60; Discuss and practice the use of possessives.  Homework: Write 4 sentences about Humphrey
Day 3 - Discuss pages 61-87 Discuss past, present and future tense verbs. Homework: Write 4 sentences about the book. 
Day 4 - Discuss characters, plot and setting. In class writing assignment

Students will do quite a bit of writing and reading during class time.   This class works very well if your child is comfortable with basic reading and writing. Knowing how to spell words is not essential - just being very comfortable with pencil and paper will be helpful. 

This class is designed for beginning readers. Students need to be comfortable reading the text, but they do not need to know every word in the book. Please look at the book to make sure it is a good fit for the student.  If this book is too simple for your student, feel free to look at my Advanced Reading series of books.