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Innovations Learning Academy- ELA Tutoring Group B

In this ELA- tutoring class the students are introduced to guided reading skills and strategies to help build confidence in comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary. We will read a new text each class and apply different reading strategies.
Hedy Dowstra-Cox, M.Ed.
Average rating:
4.8
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(106)
Class

What's included

20 live meetings
10 in-class hours
Assessment
IXL reading Assessment program administered by Outschool.org.

Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 5
In this guided reading class, the class will meet twice a week for thirty minutes.  The students will be presented leveled reading passage/text. The text will be on varied types of genres such as: Realistic Friction, Fiction, and Informational Texts.
  The Guided Lessons will be presented through the skills-based model of instruction. The lessons reflect a range of the Reading Literature, common core state standards for their current grade level. 
   The components of each lesson include a preview of the text and review of specific vocabulary related to text and phonemic awareness. A specific reading skill such as questioning and inferring and a reading strategy or ways to help the reader achieve the reading goal. After the reading is completed, the students will respond to specific questions about the new skills.  The students are guided to ask and respond to questions as they read to develop skills in key ideas and details to synthesize, process, and comprehend their text.
  I have outlined the Reading Curriculum below with the skills and passages/texts we will be reading.  The following meeting titles and skills will be presented through power point presentation and our bitmoji classroom where students will meet to conduct their reading and complete their assignments. 
 Current up and coming classes: September 30, 2024 - December 13, 2024

Current schedule: Fall 2024

     Week of:  September 30, 2024
                  Introduction to Outschool and Zoom classes.
                  Introduction to Raz-Kids
                    Student Reading Assessment
                          Running Record assessments/ Benchmark assessments
                 Introduction Lesson- Retell- Recount fictional stories.

Week of: October 7, 2024
          Lesson-Mentor Text “Friends Around the World” Nonfiction Multi Level H, K, & N,
                   Ask and Answer Questions  
      
Week of: October 14, 2024
           Lesson-Mentor Text “Animals, Animals” Nonfiction, Multi-Level E, H, & K
                   Retell-Main Idea
      
Week of: October 21, 2024
          Lesson-Mentor Text "Moose on the Move” Fantasy Level H
                   Ask and Answer Questions 

Week of: October 28, 2024
         Lesson-Mentor Text “The Camel and the Pig” Fable Level G
            Story Elements
         Running Record assessments/ Benchmark assessments

Week of: November 4, 2024
      Lesson-Shared Reading Mentor Text “Anca Journey” Historical fiction, Multi-Level M 
            Sequence of Events- connections to events in history


Week of: November 11, 2024
      Lesson-Reading Passages Mentor Text “Sam’s Robot” fiction, 
          Author’s Purpose- connections to events in Character’s actions

Week of: November 18, 2024
    Lesson-Reading Passages Mentor Text “Why Whiskers?”  nonfiction, 
        Author’s Purpose- Describe the author's point of view about a topic based on clues in a passage.
                     
Week of: November 25, 2024
  Lesson- Mentor Text “I Had a Great Day” Humorous Poetry, Level O
      Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story.

Thanksgiving Holiday- Thursday

Week of: December 2, 2024
      Lesson- Mentor Text “The California Gold Rush” Nonfiction, Level O
             Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text using context clues. 

Week of: December 9, 2024
     Lesson- Mentor Text “Follow That Clue” Realistic fiction, Grade level 3.
             Will identify the story structure beginning, middle, and end.

     Student will continue reading in Raz-Kid Library and be assessed using Book Benchmarks in both fiction and nonfiction leveled texts. 
    Conclusion to class final surveys administered.

Learning Goals

The students will be introduced and begin to develop skills in reading comprehension and fluency on their own reading level. The students will develop the reading strategies in the following areas: Cause & Effect, Summarizing, Fact & Opinion, Drawing Conc
learning goal

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In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Joined July, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
New Jersey Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
Master's Degree in Education from Georgian Court University
 In this reading class, I have developed lessons that foster reading comprehension, fluency and reading strategies through the reference of IXL's ELA curriculum uses an approach grounded in the science of reading to support the young reader. 

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weekly
2x per week, 10 weeks
30 min

Completed by 5 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-16
3-10 learners per class

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