Reading Enrichment Levels I-L/Fall
This class will reinforce 2nd grade phonics sounds, reading and language arts skills in a fun, interactive environment with an experienced classroom and online teacher.
Colleen Barrick
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What's included
32 live meetings
24 in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 2
Updated for 2024/2025 School Year.
This is an ongoing class that students can subscribe to and attend as much as desired. Each week the class meets on Monday and Wednesday from September - December. On the rare occasion when the teacher is unable to meet on Monday or Wednesday, a make-up class will be held on Friday of that same week. The class will give students the opportunity to meet with other students daily and to have meaningful interaction with them while practicing basic beginning phonics, reading and language arts skills taught in 2nd grade. The pace of the class keeps the students moving through several activities designed to highlight phonics skills, spelling words, grammar skills and reading comprehension. This will be an active class and students will be encouraged to participate and interact with classmates. Having permission to use the leveled reading stories from k5learning.com , this class will begin with Level I stories and work our way through Level J
by the end of December. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in 2nd grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:
Level I Stories
Week of Sept 2
1. Phonics skills: Compound Words/Syllables
2. Reading skills: Making Slime, The Man Who Invented Legos
3. Spelling/Sight words: backyard, barefoot, baseball, birthday, cupcake, football, grandmother, outside, popcorn, sometimes,
sunset, sunshine
4. Grammar: Review Capitalization Rules
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Making Slime/ingredients, coloring, replied, kitchen, suggested, worried, mixture, sticky
The Man Who Invented Lego/Denmark, invention, plastic, furniture, wooden, Lego
6. Weekly Wonder Word: cooperation
Week of Sept 9
1. Phonics skills: Double Consonants/Syllables
2. Reading skills: A Fancy Meal, Chocolate
3. Spelling/Sight words - carry, follow, holler, hurry, kitten, pillow, puddle, ribbon, rotten, shallow, soccer, worry
4. Grammar: Review Punctuation Rules/Sentence Types
5. Reading Vocabulary:
A Fancy Meal/restaurant, waitress, napkin, valet, milkshake, lobster, dinner, menu
Chocolate/chocolate, sugar, beans, factory, maker, cocoa
6. Weekly Wonder Word: volunteer
Week of Sept 16
1. Phonics skills: Open/Closed Syllables
2. Reading skills: Missing the Movie, Who is Harry Houdini,
3. Spelling/Sight words - basket, chicken, costume, fabric, final, lady, program, rodeo, super, tiger, velvet, winter
4. Grammar: Use apostrophe for possession ('s)
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Missing the Movie/popcorn, minutes, replied, thirsty, returned, excited, sighed, theatre
Who is Harry Houdini/excitement, trapeze, famous, adventure, escape, circus
6. Weekly Wonder Word: frighten
Week of Sept 23
1. Phonics skills: Final Stable Syllables/dle, tle, ple, ble
2. Reading skills: The Golden State, Amanda's Perfect Painting
3. Spelling/Sight words - bridle, candle, cattle, handle, middle, needle, purple, saddle, stable, table, thimble, title
4. Grammar: Use apostrophe for contractions
5. Reading Vocabulary:
The Golden State/California, flakes, gold, shovels, states, rush
Amanda's Perfect Painting/paintbrush, festival, curved, painting, straight, collage
6. Weekly Wonder Word: process
Week of Sept 30
1. Phonics Sounds: Suffix s, ing, ed
2. Reading Skills: Jojo's Colorful Bedroom, Brittany's Baby Sister
3. Spelling/Sight words - boils, cooks, greets, grills, melt, play, remind, scatter, screaming, smell, talk, want
4. Grammar: Use comma to separate items in a list
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Jojo's Colorful Bedroom/secondary, primary, blend, designer, wheel, color
Brittany's Baby Sister/doorbell, bassinet, quietly, annoyed, pacifier, stare
6. Weekly Wonder Word: annoy
Week of Oct 7
1. Phonics Sounds: Plurals
2. The Tangled Feet Problem, Loud Volcanoes and Quiet Volcanoes
3. Spelling/Sight words - answers, bunches, churches, fields, flowers, foxes, heroes, hikes, inches, lunches, questions, students
4. Grammar: Parts of friendly letter/punctuation in friendly letter
5. Reading Vocabulary:
The Tangled Feet Problem/tickled, serious, scold, winked, giggle wise
Loud Volcanoes, Quiet Volcanoes/dangerous, surface, erupt, volcano, islands, lava
6. Weekly Wonder Word: matter
Week of Oct 14
1. Phonics Sounds: Plurals
2. Reading Skills: Study Buddies, Healthy Eating
3. Spelling/Sight words - babies, bodies, cities, communities, companies, countries, factories, families, properties, skies, stories,
territories
4. Grammar: prefixes/ un, re
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Study Buddies/practiced, quietly, novel, stumbled, stories, voice
Healthy Eating/healthy, protein, carbohydrates, muscles, energy, vitamins
6. Weekly Wonder Word: expect
Week of Oct 21
1. Phonics Sounds: Plurals
2. Reading Skills: Jonah's Kite, The Sleepover
3. Spelling/Sight words - calves, children, geese, hooves, lives, loaves, men, mice, oxen, teeth, wives, wolves
4. Grammar: Prefixes/pre, mis
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Jonah's Kite/magazines, tangled, beach, vacation, cooler, kite
The Sleepover/grandparents, cupboard, nervous, explained, excited, replied
6. Weekly Wonder Word: expect
Week of Oct 28
1. Phonics Sounds: Comparatives, Superlatives
2. Reading Skills: Walt Disney, Where are the Watermelons
3. Spelling/Sight words - calmer, cleaner, longer, neatet, oldest, quicker, quietest, smarter, stronger, taller, wildest, youngest
4. Grammar: Prefixes/ sub, super
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Walt Disney/amusement, company, success, character, cartoons, movie
Where Are the Watermelons/watermelon, imagine, recite, audience, nervous, poem
6. Weekly Wonder Word: famous
Week of Nov 4
1. Phonics Sounds: Double Consonants with -ed, -ing
2. Reading Skills: Anna Wants a Puppy, Hoverboards
3. Spelling/Sight words - begged, clapped, flopped, grabbed, gripped, hugging, pinned, planning, ripped, skipping, starred,
stopping
4. Grammar: Using context clues to determine word meaning
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Anna Wants a Puppy/exercise, wagging, energy, local, laughed, attention, chase
Hoverboards/skateboard, hoverboard, practice, surface, battery, helmet
6. Weekly Wonder Word: responsibility
Level J Stories
Week of Nov 11
1. Phonics Sounds: Comparative and Superlative
2. Reading Skills: Ernest and the Elevator, Stinky and Safe
3. Spelling/Sight words - closer, finest, gentler, happiest, largest, nicer, purest, ripest, safe, simple, strangest, widest
4. Grammar: Finding subjects/predicates
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Ernest and the Elevator/apartment, elevator, salami, behaved, favorite, fear
Stinky and Safe/predators, opossum, liquid, cinnamon, creature, odor
6. Weekly Wonder Word: frighten
Week of Nov 18
1. Phonics Sounds: -ly in adverbs
2. Reading Skills: Missing Tadpoles, Who Were the Beatles
3. Spelling/Sight words - closely, completely, finally, happily, mainly, perfectly, quickly, rapidly, sadly, slowly, strangely, totally
4. Grammar: Finding adjectives
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Missing Tadpoles/observation, tadpoles, water, swimming, habitat, tails
Who Were the Beatles/autographs, reporters, guitar, audience, crowds, fan
6. Weekly Wonder Word: observed
Week of Nov 25
1. Phonics Sounds: -ful,-less,-ness
2. Reading Skills: A Slimy Situation, Don't Feed the Ducks
3. Spelling/Sight words - careless, cloudless, darkness, delightful, fearless, grateful, handful, joyful, plentiful, shyness, successful,
wonderful
4. Grammar: Finding prepostions
5. Reading Vocabulary:
A Slimy Situation/principal, science, erupt, volcano, judge, lave
Don't Feed the Ducks/breadcrumbs, nature, human, searching, visitor, sign
6. Weekly Wonder Word: notice
Week of Dec 2
1. Phonics Sounds: pre-, re-, mis-, un-
2. Reading Skills: Fools Gold or Real Gold, The Underdogs
3. Spelling/Sight words - misbehave, misinformed, misleading, precaution, preschool, preteen, rebuild, repaint, review,
uncommon, unexpected, unlucky
4. Grammar: Finding pronouns
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Fools Gold or Real Gold/explosion, pyrite, mirror, sparkles, fooled, gold
The Underdogs/determination, worried, shoot, teammate, hockey, skate
6. Weekly Wonder Word: determined
Week of Dec 9
1. Phonics Sounds: long a sound in ea, eigh, ay, aigh, ai
2. Reading Skills: The Slam Dunk, The Fire Triangle
3. Spelling/Sight words - break, eight, great, holiday, neighbors, sleigh
4. Grammar: compound words
5. Reading Vocabulary:
The Slam Dunk/trampoline, high, bounce, basketball, dunk, ankle
The Fire Triangle/oxygen, breathe, fire, burning, heat, fuel
6. Weekly Wonder Word: exercise
Week of Dec 16
1. Phonics Sounds: long a sound in ea, eigh, ay, aigh, ai
2. Reading Skills: Allen's Ghost, Not Just an Empty Can
3. Spelling/Sight words - spraying, steak, straight, trail, wait, weighed
4. Grammar: Thank you notes
5. Reading Vocabulary: Allen's Ghost/haunted, project, environmental, ghost, litter, plastic
Not Just an Empty Can/recycling, weighing, furnace, machine, factory, melted
6. Weekly Wonder Word: investigateLearning Goals
Develop a strong foundation of phonics skills.
Learn how to respond to questions by using text based evidence.
Be able to read with fluency.
Develop a love for reading!
Other Details
Parental Guidance
Canva will be used to produce Fry List flashcards and Phonics flashcards.
k5learning has given permission for me to use their materials but I cannot sent parents a pdf file of the stories used in class. These stories can be accessed from their website k5learning.com without any membership fee. Parents will be sent the exact location of the stories at the time of registration. There is a small fee to download a file of 12 stories for each level. Once downloaded to the computer, parents can print them for their student to use in class and to reread the stories again with their parents for extra practice.
Supply List
Students should always have a wipe off board, marker and eraser. Other materials may be needed at various times, but teacher will inform students of them in the class notes.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Education from Bowling Green State University/ Ohio
I am Teacher Colleen and am a retired teacher with Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and Deaf Education. I was certified to teach in the states of Ohio and Florida. During my 40 years in education I had the opportunity to teach in public and private schools, homeschool some of my own children as well as teach American Sign Language at the college leveI. Most recently, I taught ESL through an online platform and worked as an intervention tutor at our local elementary school. My experience in the classroom and with my own children has taught me that all children learn differently. I will provide a classroom where all children can learn in a safe, friendly environment. You will find my classrooms to be very hands-on and child oriented. It is rewarding to see a child's face light up as they understand something new or see them glow with pride when they realize that they CAN do something that they didn't think they could do. I will be offering classes in Phonics/Reading for Levels 1-3, Math for Levels 1-3, Cursive writing, Science camps, Writing workshops, Math Facts Practice and ASL. I do offer a limited number of 1-1 tutoring slots, but try to focus on students that really need intervention to bring them up to grade level. I am the mom of 7 children and 8 wonderful grandchildren (with the 9th one arriving in March!). When I am not in the classroom you will find me spending time with my family and my German shepherd, Ellie. Reviews
Live Group Course
$30
weekly or $480 for 32 classes2x per week, 16 weeks
45 min
Completed by 86 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-9
3-8 learners per class
