⭐Reading Comprehension and Fluency

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.A: Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

⭐Poetry Reading and Analysis

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.5: Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

⭐Figurative Language - Poetic/Literary Devices

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language.

⭐Proofreading: Editing and Revision

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

⭐Uplevelling Descriptive Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.D: Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely.

⭐Fronted Adverbials

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.A: Explain the function of conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in general and their function in particular sentences.

⭐Playscript Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3.B: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.

⭐Shades of Meaning (Contextual Meanings & Word Choice)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5.C: Use the relationship between particular words to better understand each of the words.

⭐Features of Newspaper Articles

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2.D: Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

⭐Managing Shifts Between Levels of Formality

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.B: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

⭐Technicality of Sentences (Structure & Features, e.g., Expanded Noun Phrases)

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.3.A: Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Discursive Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.A: Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer's purpose.

⭐Cohesion in Writing

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1.C: Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses.

⭐Short Burst Creative Writing Across Genres

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

⭐5th Grade Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

⭐How to Correctly Use the 'Passive'

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1.B: Form and use the perfect (e.g., I had walked; I have walked; I will have walked) verb tenses.

⭐How to Use Semi-Colons, Colons, and Dashes Correctly

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2.B: Use a comma to separate an introductory element from the rest of the sentence.

I have both Masters and Bachelor degrees in English Literature (UK Universities) and a Diploma in Teaching Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools. I am also  a qualified English Language teacher with TEFL.

Homework Offered
Assessments Offered
This class will be assessed by participation, written work and quizzes.
Grades Offered

All sources are in the public domain:

Class 1: Reading Comprehension and Fluency
Excerpts from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

Class 2: Poetry Reading and Analysis
"Where the Sidewalk Ends" by Shel Silverstein.

Class 3: Figurative Language - Poetic/Literary Devices
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.

Class 8: Shades of Meaning (Contextual Meanings & Word Choice)
"The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson.