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Calendar Mysteries: August Acrobat, A Book Club for Young Detectives
Join me in solving the month's mystery as we read a fun detective story.
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45 minutes
per class
Once per week
over 4 weeks
6-9
year olds
4-7
learners per class
How does a “Multi-Day” course work?
Meets multiple times at scheduled times
Live video chats, recorded and monitored for safety and quality
Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher
Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries
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Description
Class Experience
Students will further their reading comprehension and inference skills as they develop a connection with books and reading. We will also work on our social skills as we practice active listening, and learn to respond to peers with meaningful, open ended questions.
Each week a section of reading will be assigned. Students will be asked to gather interesting vocabulary words and text clues between meetings.
A copy of Ron Roy's August Acrobat (This can be borrowed from a library, or purchased on Amazon) printables from the classroom Some general craft supplies such as colored paper, markers or colored pencils, scissors, glue I like to utilize Kahoots as a fun way to test our comprehension and retention skills! It will be handy to have a secondary device with a web browser available. See classroom for a tutorial video if necessary!
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
45 minutes per week in class, and an estimated 1 - 2 hours per week outside of class.
Learners with high comprehension levels that still find independent reading to be a chore may benefit from having an adult reading along with them. You may read aloud to them, or perhaps take turns reading aloud to each other.
Teacher
About Me
I'm an avid reader, and an author. I was never so surprised in all my life as when my son told me he "just wasn't into reading" and that he thought "writing was the worst part of school." I had to think quick before he missed out on all the...