Improve reading comprehension skills while learning test taking strategies and gain confidence on standardized reading tests!  This ongoing course will prepare your child for standardized reading tests by learning test taking tips, while focusing on a Common Core Reading Comprehension skill each week. I believe in first teaching reading comprehension skills and using them in an authentic way, and then integrating those comprehension and test taking skills together, so students not only become better test takers, but better life long readers.  

My goal as a teacher is to engage students by using a variety of materials in my classes, such as high interest reading passages short stories, visuals, or short films to apply the reading skill of the week.  We will use graphic organizers to organize our thinking.  The format of the class will vary based on the skill for that week.  Later in the course we will apply the comprehension strategies learned while completing practice reading test passages.  At the end of each day's class we will practice the skill we learned that day with a fun game of Blooket or Gimkit.

*Note: Classes do not build upon the prior class each week; students may join class at any time.*

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SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2024-SPRING 2025:
September 9 - Inferencing and Text Evidence 
September 16 - Summarizing
September 23 - Character Change
September 30 - How an Author Develops Point of View
October 7 - Point of View and How Point of View Affects How a Story is Told
NO CLASS OCTOBER 14
October 21 - Compare and Contrast Two Themes
October 28 - How a Setting Affects Characters 
November 4- How a Setting Affects Plot
November 11 - How Visual Elements Contribute to Meaning and Tone
November 18- Figurative Language (Similes, Metaphors, Idioms)
NO CLASS NOVEMBER 25
December 2 - Context Clues
December 9 - Test taking strategies with fiction passages
NO CLASS DECEMBER 16-JAN 3
January 6 - Nonfiction Central Idea
January 13 - Nonfiction Summarizing
January 20- Author's Purpose
January 27 - Author's Reasons and Evidence
February 3 - Test taking strategies with nonfiction passages
February 10 - Figurative Language
NO CLASS FEBRUARY 17
February 24 - Figurative Language
March 3- Poetry
March 10 - Poetry
NO CLASS MARCH 17
March 24 - Poetry
March 31 - Test taking strategies with poetry passages

Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Review of skill 
Modeling of skill as we begin to read the text/short story/short film of the day
Guided and Independent Practice of skill while reading the text of the day
Blooket or Gimkit game to review skill to end the class (As time permits/if applicable to skill)