Let's Read Together: Dragon Masters Summer Camp Book Club

PLEASE NOTE: This class takes place on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week.

It's time to read! 
Get ready to for adventure, friendship and mystery. In this class learners will take turns reading aloud from the magical and wing-filled Dragon Masters books. We will read two books a week, reading each book in two parts. When we have finished the first half of a book, we will make a list of what we think will happen in the story using context clues from the text. When we meet again, we will revisit our predictions and spend some time recalling what we read on the previous day before finishing the book. Learners will read to a special feathered guest, Snickers the Macaw. 

I have a BA in English and Early Childhood development, and have been teaching and tutoring reading for over 20 years. While learners are reading, I will help them with pronunciation and decoding, punctuation rules, word meanings, and story elements. 

As learners move upward in reading levels, they shift away from learning to read and begin reading to learn. In this class we will focus on building reading comprehension by pausing to discuss what is happening in the story. We will also talk about key elements of the story, such as friendship, respect, or community.  

This is an on-going summer class. Your learner can subscribe and join us every week, or decide when to attend on a week by week basis.

A huge thanks to Tracy West for creating these magic filled adventure books. Dragon Masters books are part of the branches series designed by Scholastic to bridge the gap between leveled readers and chapter books. They have a Guided Reading Levels of O, an AR Score of 3.3-3.8 and a Lexile Level range of 520L to 600L. There are twenty-five books in the series. They can be read in any order, but the storyline will be clearer when they are read in order. Your learner should be stepping into or already within one of these reading ranges. 

If this range is too high for your learner, check out my Let's Read: Owl Diaries class

You do not need to own the book in order to participate in the class.

June 2nd-June9th: Rise of the Earth Dragon, Saving the Sun Dragon  
June 9th-June 15th: Secret of the Water Dragon, Power of the Fire Dragon   
June 16th-June 22nd: Song of the Poison Dragon, Flight of the Moon Dragon  
June 23rd-June 29th: Search for the Lightning Dragon, Roar of the Thunder Dragon  
June 30th-July 6th:  Chill of the Ice Dragon, Waking the Rainbow Dragon  
July 7th-July 13th: Shine of the Silver Dragon, Treasure of the Gold Dragon  
July 14th-July 20th: Eye of the Earthquake Dragon, The Land of the Spring Dragon 
July 21st-Aug 3rd: Future of the Time Dragon, Call of the Sound Dragon