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Boost Your Reading Comprehension With 10 Tips

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Ages 9-14

Self-Paced Course

In this 10-week course, we'll explore 10 tips to boost reading comprehension, retention, and emotional connection, leading to better success in careers and life. I teach with discussion, examples, and activities. Learning should be fun!

Clarissa Cartwright

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10 pre-recorded lessons

8 weeks of teacher support

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What's included

10 pre-recorded lessons

8 weeks

of teacher support

1 year access

to the content

Homework

1 hour per week. The homework can be found on the end of the slides. I can send an attachment to you as well upon request.

Progress Report

I'm happy to give you any progress report or assessment on how your student is doing. Please let me know when you want those.

Class Experience

US Grade 5 - 8

Beginner - Intermediate Level

****NO LIVE CLASS****

I will be teaching 10 tips for better reading comprehension. We won't be actually reading in this class except for examples. I encourage the student to bring a book that they are assigned to read or a book they want to read. That way they can do the tips with me at the time they are reading their book. 

I have videos and I have presentation slides on each of the tips. I use examples from all different kinds of genre of books that kids like or may be assigned to read. Most of my examples come from Charlotte's Web, Harry Potter, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Sherlock Holmes and Lord of the Rings. 

Each class should be pretty consistent following this pattern: 

Watch the long form video. I explain the tip. Go through the slide presentation. Each slide presentation has discussion questions, activity, conclusion, and homework. 
If you want to see what each tip is you can look at the class syllabus.  

I am happy to have conversations with your student if they are confused about something.   If you have any questions or concerns please reach out. 
Please let me know how I can make this experience better for future students. 
Feedback is welcomed.

Learning Goals

I want to help students remember what they have read. I want to help them with their reading comprehension. I would love if they could make it passed just reading comprehension but emotional connection to the story. What lessons can they learn.

Syllabus

Curriculum

Follows Teacher-Created Curriculum

10 Lessons

over 8 Weeks

Lesson 1:

Look at the Book

 We will look at the parts of the book. There are 6 parts to learn about: 
Cover/ Illustrations/ Summary/ Forward-Preface/Table of Contents/ Maps-Charts-Graphs
We will use discussion questions, a guessing game, and book share. There is optional homework for practice.

Lesson 2:

Prior Knowledge

 We will learn how we can use our prior knowledge to bring with us to a new book. Why it is important and how to use it in reading comprehension. We will use discussion questions, mind map, and book share. There is optional homework for practice.

Lesson 3:

Vocabulary

 We will talk about why learning new vocabulary words will help in reading comprehension. We can talk about how we can learn new words with some strategies and tips. We will play a game to learn a few new words and have discussion through out the lesson. The book share if there is time. There is optional homework for practice.

1 assignment

Lesson 4:

Context Clues

 We will learn what context clues are and how to spot them. We will have a discussion and play a game or do an activity to help learn these skills better. The book share. There is optional homework for practice.

Other Details

Pre-Requisites

They do need to be able to read. This class will be to hard for beginner readers. They don't have to be proficient readers. If you have questions please let me know. I made the class easy to understand and participate in.

Supply List

It would be very HELPFUL if your student bring with them a book that they are assigned to read or want to read. 

Notebook would be helpful to take notes (optional) or participate in the games.

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Sources

The books I mostly refer too in discussions or games are on the public domain. We might talk about Harry Potter or Charlotte's Web or other books in class. We aren't reading them at this time

Meet the teacher

Clarissa Cartwright

Joined September, 2021

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Teacher expertise and credentials

Hello! My name is Teacher Clarissa. Some like to call me Storybox Lady! 

I help students of any reading level too: 

@) Read a Story
@) Understand what they have just read (reading comprehension) 
@) Connect to the Story in an emotional way 

I use 10 tips for better Reading Comprehension and Understanding 

1. Look at the story 2. Prior Knowledge 3. Vocabulary 4. Context Clues 5. Settings 6. Characters 7. Main Plot/Main Conflict 8. Summary/Notes 9. Pacing 10. Connection to the story 

I have taught ESL for 5 years on many platforms, not just to Chinese children, but for children all over the world. My main experience comes from teaching and volunteering 20 plus years to children in church classes, my community, and Boy Scouts of America settings.

 I've taught children to sing, to play, to think, and helped them develop skills in their lives so they could become better adults and better humans in their communities. 

I believe a child has a right to be protected and heard. I will show respect to them and I hope for the same from them. I want to do my best to bring out the best in children and let them know they are wanted and validated. They have wisdom beyond their years and we as adults need to stop and listen to them. They see things we can't see.  
I'm excited to get to know your child in my classroom. I may be simple in teaching without to many bells and whistles but I've got heart, kindness, patience and a fun sense of play and humor to my personality. See you in the classroom.