This course will meet once, but you may enroll your child in the class as many times as you would like. This will be a one-on-one reading comprehension class where we will practice a skill to improve your child's understanding of what they read. We will be practicing the skills of reading comprehension by reading a variety of short stories from around the world and many different topics of interest. The students will have a choice of reading one of the follower per course:

-a native American myth titled "Coyote and the River," where they will study cause and effect
-a historical biography titled "The Pharaoh Queen," where we answer comprehension questions
-a rhyming poem titled "How the Little Kite Learned to Fly," where we will discuss different poetry elements and answer comprehension questions
-an African folktale titled "The Honeybird," where we will answer comprehension questions and identify the moral of the story
-a biography on Thomas Alva Edison where we will discuss and answer comprehension questions while forming opinions 
-a pancake recipe where will will practice identifying and finding important information in the text. They can make it at home afterwards, too. Yum!
-a Greek myth titled "Baucis and Philemon," where we will answer analytical comprehension questions about the characters.
-an Aesop fable titled "A Farmer, His Son, and Their Donkey," where we will put pictures in the correct sequence and write a sentence describing the event.
-a Medieval tale titled "The Sword in the Stone," where we will identify what was important about the story through comprehension questions.
-a fairy tale titled "The Emperor's New Clothes," where we will answer comprehension questions that the lessons learned. 
-a science essay titled "Jupiter, the Giant Planet," where we will list facts learned and ask inquisitive questions about scientists' actions.
-an animal essay titled "Emperor Penguins," where we will consider important facts and draw conclusions about why penguins do certain actions. 


Please ensure that you and your child choose which piece of reading is wanted for the class before starting. There is no need to have these texts as I will share whichever one you choose on my screen.