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Book Club! Read & Novel Study "the One and Only Ivan" With a Certified Teacher!

In this course, students will read "The One and Only Ivan" (favored by 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students), both in and outside of class. We will discuss and answer higher order thinking questions through reading strategy focused activities.
Ashley Senn
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What's included

4 live meetings
3 hrs 40 mins in-class hours
Homework
Students will be asked to read some chapters independently at home. Reading should take no more than 40 minutes.

Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 5
This helps your student meet the 30 minutes of daily reading that help your student grow! According to Scholastic.com, students need 30 minutes of daily reading each day. This time is not always met at school anymore, unfortunately, due to demands of state testing requirements and other demands. (I'm a public school teacher, so, sadly, I can attest to this.) 

Reading skills can affect children's future academic success, helps improve writing skills, stimulates and enhances creativity, creates schema (a much needed tool for understanding and comprehension), as well as creates empathy.

You and your student purchase the novel we'll read before class starts. Together in class, we'll read. Sometimes we will read round robin style (students reads a page, I read a page) with whoever is comfortable reading aloud, and sometimes I will read out loud. As we read together, I'll come up with comprehension questions, so we'll spend the last 5-10 minutes discussing the chapters we've read.

After the fourth and final class, students will have the option of watching the movie adaptation of the book. An optional class will be listed to discuss the movie, and compare and contrast the book to the movie.
Learning Goals
My goal is to foster a love for reading in each student. However, along the way, we'll also improve reading fluency skills, including making predictions, author's purpose, cause and effect, conflict, character analysis, comprehension, text to self, text to world, text to text connections, drawing conclusions, inferencing, asking questions, weekly vocabulary, all through discussion.
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Syllabus

Curriculum
Follows Teacher-Created Curriculum
4 Lessons
over 4 Weeks
Lesson 1:
Lesson 1
 Intro. Read aloud pages 1-31. Discuss plot, characters, and make predictions. 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Lesson 2
 Read aloud pages 60-96. Discuss plot, characters, and make predictions. 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Lesson 3
 Read aloud pages 121-171. Discuss plot, characters, and make predictions. 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Lesson 4
 Read aloud pages 193-300. Discuss plot, characters, and the ending of book. 
55 mins online live lesson

Other Details

Supply List
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate - digital or hard copy
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Joined May, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Texas Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
I am a 4th grade English Language Arts and Reading teacher in Texas. This is a novel study that I do with my class each year!

Certifications held:
- Early Childhood - 6th Grade General Education
- ESL (English as a Second Language) 
- Gifted and Talented
- Science of Teaching Reading (phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, content knowledge development, and comprehension)

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$25

weekly or $100 for 4 classes
1x per week, 4 weeks
55 min

Live video meetings
Ages: 8-11
2-8 learners per class

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