Nehemiah Summer 2024 ELA Upper Elementary
In this summer ELA class, the students are introduced to reading skills and strategies to build 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
Number of reviews:(105)
What's included
8 live meetings
6 in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 3 - 5
In this summer ELA (English Language Arts) class, the class will meet twice a week for forty-five minutes. The students will be presented one leveled reading passage/text. The text will be on varied types of genres such as: Realistic Friction, Fiction, and Informational Texts.
The Guided Reading 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 grade level literacy. 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: July 8, 2024 - August 2, 2024
Current schedule: July 2024
Week 1: July 8, 2024
Day 1 - Introductions- Meet & Greet
Outschool introduction and Survey
Vocabulary- consonant digraphs
High Frequency words
Text - Splish, Splash Whales -nonfiction cause & effect
Day 2 - Introductions- Meet & Greet
Outschool introduction and Survey
Text - Fables- Text Lion and the Mouse
Vocabulary - gnawed, haste, roused, generous,
Preview/ Predict text
Evaluate the story structure in the text using graphic organizer. What is the
moral of the story?
Week 2: July 15, 2024
Day 1 - Introductions- Meet & Greet new students and assign survey
Explain cause-and-effect relationships in literary texts.
Vocabulary- consonant digraphs
High Frequency words
Text - Splish, Splash Whales -nonfiction cause & effect complete
assignment
Mario- break
Espark -Educational computer game-if time allows
Day 2 Text - IXL- nonfiction multi paragraphs
Students will read text and identify text structures: descriptive, problem-
solution, cause & effect, sequential and compare & contrast.
Week 3: July 22, 2024)
Day 1 Lesson-Mentor Text “Oak Ridge” Read the two passages and learn with an
example. Complete practice together Read the passage to evaluate author’s
purpose and detailed reason.
Day 2 Lesson-Mentor Text “Video Game” Read the passages Learn with an example.
Complete practice together Read the passage to learn point of view, or
perspective, is a way of seeing or thinking about something. People with
different points of view may describe the same event or idea differently.
Week 4: July 29, 2024, Class conclusion survey-beginning of week
Day 1 Lesson-Mentor Text “Rescue Mission” Read the story and learn with an
example. Complete practice together Read the passage to evaluate story
elements.
Mario- break
Espark -Educational computer game-if time allows
Day 2 Lesson-Mentor Text “The School in the Air” Read the historical fiction passages
and learn with an example. Complete practice together Read the passage to
learn to make inferences on historical events and perspective,
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 Conclusions, Text & Graphic Features, and Mian Ideas & Details.
Other Details
Learning Needs
This class is designed to meet all learners. The regular education students as well as students with special needs through differentiated instruction.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
Learning A-Z, IXL reading and Common Lit
Joined July, 2020
4.8
105reviews
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. Reviews
Live Group Course
$3
weekly or $10 for 8 classes2x per week, 4 weeks
45 min
Completed by 11 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-12
5-11 learners per class
