Reading Enrichment Levels M-P/Fall
This class will reinforce 3rd grade phonics and word study skills along with reading comprehension 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 hoursAssessment
Informal assessment during classesClass Experience
US Grade 3
Dates have been edited to reflect the Fall 2023-2024 school year.
This is an ongoing class that students can subscribe to and attend as much as desired. It will be offered every Monday and Wednesday from September - December. 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 3rd grade. 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 M stories and work our way through Level P by the end of the school year. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in third grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:
1. Phonics skills: We will begin class with a quick drill practicing new phonics sounds each week
2. Reading skills: Practice reading sentences and short paragraphs containing the phonics sounds of the week.
3. Spelling/Sight words - targeted lists for spelling and word study
4. Grammar: Third grade grammar rules for capitalization, punctuation, verb tense, subject/verb agreement will be incorporated
5. Vocabulary: Target Vocabulary words will be selected from each story
6. Weekly Wonder Word: one challenge word will be discussed each week
Level M Stories
Week of Sept 4
1. Phonics skills: short a in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills: Marta Meets Mayor, Fishing for Memories
3. Spelling/Sight words - anthem, ballot, basket, cactus, canyon, gallon, handsome, happen, magnet, planet, rabbit, random, salad,
tablet, talon
4. Grammar: Review basic parts of speech: noun, verb, adj, adverb
5. Reading Vocabulary: Marta Meets Mayor/bridge, decisions, announced, mayor, scissors, microphone
Fishing for Memories/patient, scowled, interrupted, bait, osprey, airplane
6. Weekly Wonder Word: accomplish, accomplishment
Week of Sept 11
1. Phonics skills: short i in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills: The Great One, Flying with Seagulls
3. Spelling/Sight words - chicken, children, distant, instant, limit, linen, liquid, mitten, Pilgrim, prison, ribbon, skillet, timid, visit
wisdom
4. Grammar: Review punctuation: . , ! ? " "
5. Reading Vocabulary: The Great One/scorer, hockey, championship, criticize, league, practice
Flying with Seagulls/flying, nervous, equipment, glider, seagull, courage
6. Weekly Wonder Word: demonstrate, demonstration
Week of Sept 18
1. Phonics skills: short e in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills: Braille, The Saleswoman
3. Spelling/Sight words - breakfast, expense, friendly, healthy, heaven, helmet, intense, jealous lemon, lesson,melon, pleasant,
present, wealthy, weapon
4. Grammar: personal pronouns (subject pronouns: I, we, you, he, she, it, they)
5. Reading Vocabulary: Braille/raised, stylus, system, blind, braille, cursive
The Saleswoman/success, appreciate, saleswoman, guides, generous, confidence
6. Weekly Wonder Word: inform, information
Week of Sept 25
1. Phonics skills: short o in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading skills: A Wonky Ride, A Sound Activated Friend
3. Spelling/Sight words - blossom, bottom, closet, common, Congress, constant, cotton, gossip, pollen, problem, profit, response,
robin, rotten, solid
4. Grammar: object pronouns: me, us, you, him, her, it, them
5. Reading Vocabulary: A Wonky Ride/afraid, seatbelt, rollercoaster, wonky, breathe, amusement
A Sound Activated Friend/dominoes, attention, invitation, wildly, dinosaur, activated
6. Weekly Wonder Word: recommend, recommendation
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Week of Oct 2
1. Phonics Sounds: short u in first syllable and schwa sound in unstressed syllables
2. Reading Skills: Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Boys in the Band Room
3. Spelling/Sight words - button, compass, cousin, custom, disgust, dozen, hundred, husband, muffin, nugget, oven, pumpkin,
sudden, summit, trumpet
4. Grammar: possessive pronouns: mine, ours, yours, his, hers, its, their
5. Reading Vocabulary: Somewhere Over the Rainbow/gold, angle, reflected, bend, prism, rainbow
Boys in the Band Room/guitar, trumpet, instrument, drum, mallet, maracas
6. Weekly Wonder Word: experiment, experimentation
More Level M Stories
Week of Oct 9
1. Phonics Sounds: final blends with act, ect, ict, uct, inct
2. Reading Skills: The Night Sky, The Turtle Confession
3. Spelling/Sight words - attract, collect, connect, contact, distinct, distract, effect, extinct, instinct, predict, product, protect,
subject, subtract
4. Grammar: Finding pronouns/identifying person or thing it represents
5. Reading Vocabulary: The Night Sky/heroes, millions, constellation, orbit, sideways, patterns
The Turtle Confession/female, confess, breathing, turtle, guilty, giggling
6. Weekly Wonder Word: confess, confession
Week of Oct 16
1. Phonics Sounds: long a with open syllables
2. Reading Skills: A Dog that Talks, The Little Red Hen Goes on Strike
3. Spelling/Sight words - ailment, apron, bacon, banquet, basin, blanket, hatred, famous, mason, patron, raisin, raven, sacred,
vacant, waitress
4. Grammar: adverbs spelled with -ly, answers "How?"
5. Reading Vocabulary: A Dog that Talks/miniature, translator, conversation, peace, awesome, impatiently
The Little Red Hen Goes on Strike/dozen, baking, grumbled, flour, strike, muffins
6. Weekly Wonder Word: converse, conversation
Week of Oct 23
1. Phonics Sounds: long a rule breakers
2. Reading Skills: Postcard from Italy, The Blanket Drive
3. Spelling/Sight words - again, against, bargain, break, captain, climate, curtain, great, palate, pirate, private, Senate,
steak,template, villain
4. Grammar: rules for dividing words into syllables
5. Reading Vocabulary: Postcard from Italy/ocean, mailbox, envelope, Italy, address, postcard
The Blanket Drive/brilliant, hurricane, interviewer, crew, blankets, television
6. Weekly Wonder Word: distribute, distribution
Week of Oct 30
1. Phonics Sounds: long e patterns
2. Reading Skills: The Sappy Chew, The Right Pencil
3. Spelling/Sight words - beacon, decent, decrease, disease, even, increase, procded, reason, recent, release, season, secret,
sequins, sweeten treason
4. Grammar: order words/after, before, next, since, during, while
5. Reading Vocabulary: The Sappy Chew/knife, flavors, powdered, sap, screen, research
The Right Pencil/misspell, nervous, concentrate, pencil, misplace, mistakes
6. Weekly Wonder Word: concentrate, concentration
Week of Nov 6
1. Phonics Sounds: long e pattern with ie
2. Reading Skills: Misty Copeland, Water's Journey
3. Spelling/Sight words - achieve, believe, brief, chief, field, fierce, grieve, thief, niece, piece, priest, relief, shield, thief, yield
4. Grammar: order words/first, finally, earlier, eventually, following
5. Reading Vocabulary: Misty Copeland/talent, journey, routines, ballet, passion, national
Water's Journey/copper, disinfect, treatment, faucet, journey reservoir
6. Weekly Wonder Word: inspire, inspiration
Level N Stories
Week of Nov 13
1. Phonics Sounds: long i patterns
2. Reading Skills: Margie Will Not Read, Into the Forest I Go
3. Spelling/Sight words - client, crisis, diamond, diaper, frighten, iris, iron, lion, minus, pilot, quiet, silent,siren, violent, virus
4. Grammar: topic sentence, supporting details
5. Reading Vocabulary: Margie Will Not Read/imagination, dinosaur, groaned, mysterious, certified, alien
Into the Forest I Go/countryside, preserve, diary, environment, national, nature
6. Weekly Wonder Word: certify, certificate, certification
Week of Nov 20
1. Phonics Sounds: long o patterns
2. Reading Skills: Understanding dictionary entries
3. Spelling/Vocabulary words: although, approach, bonus, broken, clothes, doughnut, focus, hostess, moment, open, poem,
rodent, slogan, thorough, token
4. Grammar: stating Opinions/giving support for opinions
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Slow and Steady Wns the Race: underestimate, tortoise, steady, challenged, leaves, hare
The Boy from Oz: embarrassed, unusual, runners, Australia, bearded, dragon
6. Weekly Wonder Word: estimate, estimation, estimator
Week of Nov 27
1. Phonics Sounds: long u patterns with open syllables
2. Reading Skills: Understanding dictionary entries
3. Spelling/Vocabulary words: beauty, coupon, crton, fluent, fluid, human, humid, Jewish, nougat, prudent, ruin, sewer, student,
tulip, unit
4. Grammar: stating fact vs. opinion
5. Reading Vocabulary:
My Mom, the Architect: drawings, building, conditioning, elevator, design, architect
Not So Secret Place: magical, invisible, quiet, pretend, secret, climb
6. Weekly Wonder Word: design, designer
Week of Dec 4
1. Phonics Sounds: more long u patterns
2. Reading Skills: -al, -tion
3. Spelling/Sight words: approve, compute, confuse, dilute, disprove, interview, introduce, issue, minute, pollute, preview, review,
salute, tissue, view
4. Grammar: Opinion based on facts
5. Reading Vocabulary:
House of Memories: young, plank, photographs, attic, ladder, insulation
Money in the Bank: bank, deposit, withdrawal, loan, interest, expensive
6. Weekly Wonder Word: insulate, insulation, insulator
Week of Dec 11
1. Phonics Sounds: -al ending
2. Reading Skills: Finding proof for T/F or not mentioned in story
3. Spelling/Sight words: brutal, dental, equal, fatal, final, legal, local, mammal, metal, pdeal, rival, sandal, signal, total, vital
4. Grammar:
5. Reading Vocabulary:
The Seed Thief: thief, squirrel, birdfeeder, steal, circular, sspicious
I'm OK, the Birds are OK: curious, replenish, embarrassed, worried, neighbor, concerned
6. Weekly Wonder Word: suspicious, suspiciously, curious, curiously
Week of Dec 18
1. Phonics Sounds: -el and -il endings
2. Reading Skills: Finding proof for T/F or not mentioned in story
3. Spelling/Sight words: April, channel, easel, fossil, gravel, jewel, label, level, sequel, shovel, shrivel, travel, tunnel, until, vessel
4. Grammar:
5. Reading Vocabulary:
Grandma and the Great Shark: shark, quicksand, documentary, limbs, stomach, application
House Hunting in Outer Space: space, surface, intergalactic, outer, gravity, temperature
6. Weekly Wonder Word: intergalacticLearning Goals
Develop a strong foundation of phonics skills and word study 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
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$30
weekly or $480 for 32 classes2x per week, 16 weeks
45 min
Completed by 32 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-10
3-6 learners per class
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