Lets Read: Books With Feathers-Novel Exploration for 3rd to 6th Grade
What's included
12 live meetings
8 in-class hoursHomework
1-2 hours per week. Some reading between sessions will be required. I will provide the pages.Certificate of Completion
1 after class completionClass Experience
US Grade 3 - 6
Books take us to new places, but sometimes it's more fun to travel with others. In this course we will build fluency and engage in meaningful discussion, while expanding our understanding of literary devices. We will touch on flashback, foreshadowing, symbolism, false endings, characterization and voice (to name a few). All of the books I have chosen are modern reads, published within the last five years. While I do love the “classics” from my childhood, I also love reading and discovering new things. I believe that diving into a book and reading new, diverse, stories can help us have new conversations with our world and give us the tools we need to understand the people around us. Let’s explore some books together and learn how to fly. This is a multi-day course that meets twice a week for six weeks. We will take turns reading aloud, and spend time getting to know the story and characters. You do not need to own the book in order to participate For this session of Books With Feathers we will read Coo by Kaela Noel Ten years ago, an impossible thing happened: a flock of pigeons picked up a human baby who had been abandoned in an empty lot and carried her, bundled in blankets, to their roof. Coo has lived her entire life on the rooftop with the pigeons who saved her. It’s the only home she’s ever known. But then a hungry hawk nearly kills Burr, the pigeon she loves most, and leaves him gravely hurt. Coo must make a perilous trip to the ground for the first time to find Tully, a retired postal worker who occasionally feeds Coo’s flock, and who can heal injured birds. Tully mends Burr’s broken wing and coaxes Coo from her isolated life. Living with Tully, Coo experiences warmth, safety, and human relationships for the first time. But just as Coo is beginning to blossom, she learns the human world is infinitely more complex, and cruel, and wonderful, than she could have imagined.
Learning Goals
Learners will stretch their imaginations and learn to think creatively about the story while learning or practicing:
--listening and sharing
--fluency
--reading comprehension
--recognizing story elements
--uncovering and understanding story devices
Syllabus
12 Lessons
over 6 WeeksLesson 1:
Session #1
Begin the book, work on fluency and comprehension
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Session #2
Work on retention by reminding ourselves of the story and stating what happened in the pages read for homework. Continue reading, and working on fluency and comprehension. Discuss point of view. Who is telling us the story? How does that affect what we, as readers, get to know?
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Session #3
Work on retention by reminding ourselves of the story and stating what happened in the pages read for homework. Continue reading, and working on fluency and comprehension. Discuss characters--what they want and what stands in the way of them getting what they want. Discuss possible foreshadowing.
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Session #4
Work on retention by reminding ourselves of the story and stating what happened in the pages read for homework. Continue reading, and working on fluency and comprehension. Discuss characters--what choices are they making? What consequences do we foresee?
40 mins online live lesson
Other Details
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
For this session of Books with Feathers we will read Coo by Kaela Noel
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Live Group Class
$25
weekly or $150 for 12 classes2x per week, 6 weeks
40 min
Completed by 1 learner
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-12
3-6 learners per class
Financial Assistance
Tutoring
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