What's included
2 live meetings
1 in-class hours per weekClass Experience
👋Hello everyone, my name is Mr. Malcolm and I have been working with students for nearly 7 years now. I have primarily focused my time and efforts on helping students improve their reading abilities by creating reading assessments, evaluations and specialized reading passages that are targeted towards helping students improve their reading comprehension and fluency. Learning how to read and comprehend different passages doesn't always come easily for students. Sometimes they may struggle with making an inference at a subtle clue that the author might be sharing, or maybe one of the metaphors goes straight over their head! Whatever it might be, there is always a way to take these difficult and sometimes frustrating concepts and turn them into an enjoyable learning experience! In this Ongoing class, students will have the opportunity to read through a diverse selection of reading materials 📖 while also learning and implementing different strategies to help improve their overall reading comprehension/fluency. The strategies and stories are rather diverse and were designed and chosen specifically to help students from the 3rd, 4th and 5th grades. This will be done by implementing a mixture of the different reading materials while also incorporating the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Below are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that may be taught during the lessons. (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1, 4.1, 5.1) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2, 4.2, 5.2) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3, 4.3, 5.3) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4, 4.4, 5.4) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5, 4.5, 5.5) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.6, 4.6, 5.6) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7, 4.7, 5.7) (CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.9, 4.9, 5.9) During each of the lessons, students will be encouraged to read out loud, ask questions, share their ideas and engage in thought-provoking discussions. They will also be asked targeted retention and discussion-based questions throughout the lesson to help guide the students to a better and more in-depth understanding of what is being read. While students are reading the passages they will also be able to work on their overall reading fluency. During each of the lessons, I am planning to guide and assist the students to help them improve their pronunciation, speed and expression. I also desire to utilize those situations as instructional opportunities to help the students work together to identify the meaning of an unknown word, consider the intentions of the author or see if there are any parts of the story that some of the students may not understand. Class Structure 🔵Week 1 (Sept 29 - Oct 5) Welcome & Introduction / Group assessment 🔵Week 2 (Oct 6 - Oct 12) Introduction to Inferences 🔵Week 3 (Oct 13 - Oct 19) Working with inferences in short passages. 🔵Week 4 (Oct 20 - Oct 26) Full story read through while using inferences. I hope to see your student soon!
Other Details
Parental Guidance
We will be using genially for some of the reading materials. These will be private links sent to the students where they can navigate through story and answers questions in an interactive and engaging way. There is no login required, they will only be asked to submit their first name. There are also no other links or buttons that can take them to another source as the links are exclusive.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree from University of North Florida
Hello everyone!
I am very thankful to be teaching here on outschool. I have been working with children now for nearly 7 years and have been able to teach over 3000 online classes. I have a wide variety of experience from working with charter schools, local government recreation positions, public school programs and multiple online teaching platforms. Over the years I’ve had multiple educator roles such as Online Teaching, Homeschooling, Reading Tutor, Soccer Coach, Bible teacher, Sunday School, Fitness Educator, Camp Counselor and an ESL Teacher. During that time I have been able to teach a variety of different topics including English, Reading, Math, Finance, Fitness, Health, Technology and more.
I received my Bachelors degree from the University of North Florida while studying Health Science/Fitness. I was also in charge of putting together a health awareness program for struggling students while working with a charter school.
Afterwards I began working with multiple different curriculums and have specialized in working with struggling readers and began creating custom reading evaluations and courses that are tailored to help students improve in all areas of reading including speed, accuracy, pronunciation and comprehension.
You may also see that I offer typing courses which were designed to help students learn the foundational skills of typing on a computer by building and utilizing proper finger positioning, muscle memory and visual/kinesthetic accuracy while also incorporating challenging and engaging typing games/lessons.
I really do enjoy teaching many different topics and learning more everyday as I believe there is an infinite amount of wisdom to learn so we should never stop learning.
My goal as a teacher is to Equip, Encourage and Challenge each of my students to not just learn the information but rather to learn it and use it wisely in their lives.
If you have any questions please send me a message :)
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Live Group Class
$13
weekly ($7 per class)2x per week
30 min
Completed by 8 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-14
2-10 learners per class