What's included
16 live meetings
24 in-class hoursHomework
4+ hours per week. The only homework that I will require, is for the students to read different types of literature on their own, to become familiar with new words and their meaning. Learners will not have any projects to do, other than their reading. The reading should be 1 hour per day. The learners will be expected to read at least 7-8 pages, in the books they've chosen to read.Assessment
The learner's progress will be assessed by a letter grade. Students like to see what grade they've made.Grading
includedClass Experience
US Grade 2
I will prepare to teach the students the essential standards needed, for learning to read, or to improve their reading, writing and spelling skills. WK 1. Phonics, independent practice that helps students learn key phonics. WK 2. Practicing phonics through word building. WK 3. Practicing super words, through word building. WK 4. Putting letters together to form words. WK 5. Word ladders, phonic skills that help to boost students reading, writing and spelling confidence. WK 6. Sentence building, using sight word builders. WK 7. Word families; will be introduced to enforce reading readiness. WK 8. Let's read. I will structure my class in a classroom setting. I will teach my class, by introducing the topics for the week and we will begin with those topics on a weekly basis. I will introduce new words to them and have them recite those words back to me, for proper pronunciation. My teaching style is standard, just like the students are familiar with in school. The learners will interact with me, in every class setting, with discussions on phonics, using their (a b c's), rhyming words, consonants, short vowel sounds, such as, (a e i o u), that they've learned and stringing words together, to make sentences, so that they can start reading. Sometimes I will show slides, or we can play some games, with activities in reading. The learners will need some foundational reading skills, such as (1) Print Concepts; where the learners will need to know that words in print, runs from left to right and that words are groups of letters separated by space. (2) Phonological Awareness; to have the ability to orally identify and manipulate the sound of words, syllables and speech. (3) Phonics and Word Recognition skills, which includes analyzing multisyllabic words into small meanings of words. (4) Fluency, the ability to read connected text automatically.
Learning Goals
The students will learn (1) Phonics (2) Phonemic awareness (3) Vocabulary (4) Fluency and (5) Comprehension.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
There will be nothing scary about the books the children will read. I will suggest some books for the parents to purchase, in their child's age range.
Supply List
My learners will need paper, pencils, crayons and a few books that I will inform the parents on purchasing.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree in Education from University of Houston-Downtown
I hold a Bachelor of Science Degree in "Interdisciplinary Studies", which entails a broad range of subjects that I'm able to teach. I've taught school for 22 years, from the elementary level, through high school. I've taught Reading to second and third graders, as well as English, Science and World History, to middle school students and high school students.
Reviews
Live Group Class
$18
for 16 classes2x per week, 8 weeks
90 min
Completed by 7 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-8
6-9 learners per class