A small group will help give your child more opportunity to practice the concepts from this class. Please take a look at the following list of book examples below to see if this class is a fit for your child.  Your child does not have to be in this grade to take this class. Your child is welcome to take this class if he or she is reading at a grade 5 level. 

Here is a reference to Grade 5 level books:
Level U+: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Grade 5)
Level V+: Wonder, By RJ Palacio (Grade 5)

     Guided Reading will help your child develop reading proficiency, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. We will be using digital short stories in this lesson. In my Guided Reading lesson we will learn reading strategies and how to implement these strategies to support your child's learning. This small group class will allow your child more opportunity to engage in literacy skills. I choose engaging and meaningful activities to help support your child's literacy development, fostering a joy for reading.

We will be reading a grade 5 level story. Each story is different in every lesson. These are digital stories, there is no need to purchase anything. Students can join in any time, in any order. Each class will follow the same format using a different story:

* Your child will be introduced to reading strategies: breaking words into parts, stretching sounds out, looking for smaller words within a word, finding the base word, adding ending and beginning sounds to help solve tricky words.
* Your child will be introduced to a new story. We will do a book walk. This happens before reading. We look at the book title, cover and pictures in the story and make predictions about what the book will be about.
* I will go over some of the challenging words that will be in the story to help make the text more familiar for your child. 
* I will model how to read a sentence with a challenging word from the story, using a reading strategy.  
* Your child will take turns reading the story aloud, implementing reading strategies when needed with support from me.
* Your child will answer several comprehension questions. Please see the list of example questions. Each set of questions will be unique and based on the story.
* We will write a written response of a summary of the story. I will model writing, using paragraph formation.  As a class we will write part of the summary together. I will then add some vocabulary words onto the screen to help students add some descriptive words to their writing. Students are then encouraged to add a couple more sentences on their own to the summary. Please have a piece of paper on hand for writing.
* After writing, we will work on vocabulary from the story that we have read through a digital game.

In each class, I will ask your child several comprehension questions to help support his or her learning.  Each class will have different comprehension questions.  Here is a list of some examples:
* How does the character feel? What words or descriptions does the author give to support your answers?
* What are you wondering? What questions do you have?
* Predict what will happen next.
* What caused (character in this chapter) to .....? What was the effect of ....?
* What was important on this page? Why?
* Summarize what you read. What's the most important part?
* How do Jack & Annie feel about their adventure?
* How does each character react to....?
* What do you think this word means?
* Why did the character say....?
* How are ____ & ____ similar? How are they different?
* Did the character change? Why?

Book levels/titles will be adjusted based on class needs. The following is a guideline. 
The Digital Books we will be reading were written by Aylin Claashen. 
Week of October  10th : Electrical Inventions (Non-Fiction)
Week of October 17 : Compost (Non-Fiction)
Week of October 24th: A Morning Person
Week of October 31st : Sand Dunes (Non-Fiction)
Week of November 7th: Morning Person
Week of November 14th: A Famous Puppeteer (Non-Fiction) 
Week of November 21st : The Sounds Part 1
Week of November 28th  The Sounds Part 2
Week of December 4th - The One
Week of December 11th - A Good Friend
Week of December 18 - Dedication
Week of January 2nd - Busy
Week of January 9th - Bright Idea Day
Week of January 16th - Swaps
Week of January 23th - Funny Faces
Week of January 30th - Supreme Court Justice
Week of February 6th - Competitive Spirit 
Week of February 13th - A Great Spot
Week of February 20th - Heatwaves
Week of February 27th - A Letter To MY Hero
Week of March 6th  - A Women In Space
Week of March 13th - Newfound Interest
Week of March 20th - Nightlight
Week of March 27th - Conservation
Week of April 3rd - Temperature Wars 1
Week of April 10th - Temperature Wars 2
Week of April 17th - Temperature Wars 3
Week of April 24th - A Narrow Strip Of Land
Week of May 1st - Just Be Yourself
Week of May 8th - My Name Is
Week of May 15th - Acropolis 
Week of May 22nd - Drawings and Calculations
Week of May 29th - Boundaries
Week of June 5th - New Technology
Week of June 12th - New Perspective
Week of June 20th - Using Clay For Art
Week of June 27th - High Hopes