Reading Enrichment Levels Q-T/Fall
This class will reinforce 4th grade 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 4
Edited for 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 for the entire school year (September - June) and is divided into a Fall and a Spring class listing. The class will give students the opportunity to meet with other students and have meaningful interaction with them while practicing basic beginning phonics, reading and language arts skills taught in 4th 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 Q stories and work our way through Level T by the end of the school year. Come join this class, reinforce ELA skills learned in 4th Grade and make some new friends!
General format of each class will be as follows:
Week of Oct 16
1. Phonics: short o and short u words
2. Stories for the week: Olivia Meets Eleanor
3. Reading skills: Written Response-If you had a time machine and could visit anyone, who would it be?
4. Spelling/Sight words: another, colony, comedy, comforting, company, compromise, concentrate,
constantly, deposit, discover, disgusting
5. Grammar: Latin root "rupt" means break
6. Reading Vocabulary: journalist, biography, ceremonies, kresearch, advocate, President
Week of Oct 23
1. Phonics: short o and short u words
2. Stories for the week: Flying to Victory
3. Reading skills: Written Response-Why can a plane fly but not a brick?
4. Spelling/Sight words: honesty, interrupt, operate, policy, politics, probably, property, substitute, tolerate
5. Grammar: analogies
6. Reading Vocabulary: thrust, gravity, aerodynamic, glider, genius, airplane
Week of Oct 30
1. Phonics - short i words
2. Stories for the week: Rosa Parks Takes a Stand
3. Reading Skills: Reading Response - What would you do if you witnessed someone being treated unfairly?
4. Spelling/Sight words: abyss, antonym, bicycle, crypt, cryptic, crystal, cylinder, Egypt, gymnast, gypsy
5. Grammar: Greek root "onym" and Latin root "nom" mean name
6. Reading Vocabulary: courage, seamstress, discrimination, justice, arrested, segregation
Week of Nov 6
1. Phonics - short i words
2. Stories for the week: Easing Emma
3. Reading skills: Reading Response-What are some ways that you can help yourself if you are anxious?
4. Spelling/Sight words: mystery, myth, nymph, rhuthm, syllable, symbol, symptom, sync, synonym, system
5. Grammar: Answering questions in complete sentence by turning question around to create statement.
6. Reading Vocabulary: anxiety, companion, presentation, nervous, obedience, emotional
Week of Nov 13
1. Phonics - long vowels
2. Stories for the week: Velocity Viper
3. Reading skills: Reading Response-Do you like to ride rollercoasters? Do you have a favorite one?
4. Spelling/Sight words: absolute, beautiful, communicate, computer, container, diagnose, evening, isolated, jewelry, juvenile
5. Grammar: prefix com-
6. Reading Vocabulary: viper, velocity, accdleration, loop, clothoid, swallowed
Week of Nov 20
1. Phonics: Long vowels
2. Stories for the week: Crater of Diamonds and Other Things
3. Reading skills: Reading Response - What would you rather find, a diamond or an arrowhead?
4. Spelling/Sight words: motivate, museum, neighborhood, pineapple, potato, relationship, tomato, tornado, vitamin, volcano
5. Grammar: Using context clues to determine meaning
6. Reading Vocabulary: elegant, pressures, arrowhead, mining, excavate, diamonds
Week of Nov 27
1. Phonics: -ine ending
2. Stories for the week: A Perfect Gift for Grandpa
3. Reading skills: Reading Response- Why do you think Grandpa wants to play cribbage with Ian? What has been the best gift you have given your Grandpa?
4. Spelling/Sight words: determine, discipline, doctrine, engine, examine, famine, feminine, gasoline, ginuine, heroine
5. Grammar: Latin root - aqua and Greek root - hydra both mean water
6. Reading Vocabulary: cribbage, squirming, inappropriate, scrabble, hyperbole, contagious
Week of Dec 4
1. Phonics: -ine endings
2. Stories for the week: The Three Branches of the Treehouse Society
3. Reading skills: Reading Response- Imagine you were part of Congress-what laws would you make?
4. Spelling/Sight words: imagine, intestines, machine, magazine, marine, masculine, medicine, ravine, routine, saline
5. Grammar: Figure of Speech - alliteration
6. Reading Vocabulary: society, executive, constitution, judicial, congress, legislative
Week of Dec 11
1. Phonics: -ice, -ile, -ite endings
2. Stories for the week: Telephones, Bananas and a Grand Exhibition
3. Reading skills: Reading Response - Which exhibit would have been most interesting to you? Why?
4. Spelling/Sight words: accomplice, apprentice, cowardice, definite, exquisite, favorite, fertile, fragile, granite, hostile
5. Grammar: Latin root "fin" means limit or end
6. Reading Vocabulary: exhibition, cacophony, contraptions, bushel, centennial, megaphone
Week of Dec 18
1. Phonics: -ice, -ile, -ite endings
2. Stories for the week: Sawyer and the Talking Rabbit
3. Reading skills: Reading Response - What happens next after Sawyer discovers the pawprints in the snow?
4. Spelling/Sight words: hypocrite, infinite, injustice, malpractice, missile,mobile, opposite, prejudice, solstice, sterile
5. Grammar: synonym and antonym
6. Reading Vocabulary: barbaric, intervened, vegetarianism, dietary, emerged, conversationOther Details
Parental Guidance
Parental Guidance Statement:
The reading passages come from k5learning resources. These passages need to be downloading free of charge directly from the website. There is no membership fee and a vast supply of supplemental learning materials available to teachers and parents alike. I have written permission to use the materials in this online class, but I am unable to send you PDF files of stories due to copywrite laws. Here is the link to use for the Level 4 classes...
https://www.k5learning.com/reading-comprehension-worksheets/fourth-grade-4/leveled-reading-worksheets
1. Go to the link
2. Select the passage for the week
3. Print the passage and the comprehension questions
4. You do NOT need to print the answer sheet. IF you choose to print it for your benefit, please do not let your child have access to it.
We will use the passage the first class of each week. They will need a paper copy of the passage in order to do some of the activities in class. These activities may include finding and marking target words, punctuation marks, answers to comprehension questions, etc.
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
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
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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
$25
weekly or $400 for 32 classes2x per week, 16 weeks
45 min
Completed by 10 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-11
3-6 learners per class
