Personalized Reading Instruction

Completed by 13 learners

Ages 5-18

Live 1-on-1 Lessons

In this on-going class, students will receive 1 on 1 reading instruction based on their individual reading needs.

Marie Maxwell, Doctoral Candidate

Average rating:

5.0

Number of reviews:

(12 reviews)

Live video meetings

Meets on demand

25 min

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What's included

Meets on Demand

schedule meetings as needed

25 mins

per session

Teacher support

Assessment

Instructor will continuously assess student need and plan future classes to meet those individual needs.

Class Experience

Beginner - Advanced Level

***For ages 5-18!****
In this on-going class, students will receive 1 on 1 reading instruction based on their reading needs. Students will read part of a short book at the student's instructional reading level.  The student and teacher will work on specific skills.  

This class is perfect for students who:
+are slightly behind in reading, 
+hate reading,
+love reading and want to read with someone who loves reading too,
+not challenged in their classroom reading program, or 
+students who need to complete a reading log.  

Let me help your student meet their reading goals! 
Want to have class more than one day a week?  You can subscribe to as many reading classes as you need a week.
Does your learner need help with specific reading goals?  Email me and I will tailor their class to those goals.
Does your learner have specific interests (sports, dinosaurs, cooking, mythology)?  Email me and I will try to tailor their class to those goals.

In each lesson, students will work on some of the following skills:
+fluency, 
+prosody, 
+vocabulary, 
+reading comprehension, 
+decoding, 
+building background knowledge, 
+creating connections,
+summarizing,
+inferencing,
+fiction reading skills,
+non-fiction reading skills and
+author's purpose.

But more than anything else, we will work on developing a love of reading!

(Please note: This class is not designed for students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia or a specific reading disability.  Please see my class Reading and Spelling Instruction for Dyslexic Learners. Reading and Spelling Instruction for Dyslexic Learners is designed to meet the needs of learners with diagnosed reading needs.)

Learning Goals

+Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
+Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
+Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
+Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
+Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
+Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
+Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
+Make connections between the text of a story 
+Compare and contrast the treatment of similar themes and topics (e.g., opposition of good and evil) and patterns of events (e.g., the quest) in stories, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures.

Other Details

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Meet the teacher

Marie Maxwell, Doctoral Candidate

Joined June, 2020

5.0

12reviews

Profile

Teacher expertise and credentials

+ I am a doctoral student!  I am working on my Ed.D in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on literacy and English Language Learning.
+ I have taught for 20 years.
+ I am an avid reader!  I want to ignite a love of reading in my students.
+ I am a published writer.  
+ I have taught over 3.5 thousand online classes.
+ My philosophy is that the more students are talking, laughing, creating and interacting, the more they are learning.  
+ I have 7 children...2 girls and 5 boys!