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September Novel Club / Read "Because of Winn-Dixie" With a Certified Teacher!

In this course, students will read the different books favored by 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students, both in and outside of class. We will discuss and answer higher order thinking questions through reading strategy focused activities.
Ashley Senn
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What's included

4 live meetings
3 hrs 20 mins in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. Students will be asked to read some chapters independently at home. Reading should take no more than 40 minutes. If we are reading a book that has a movie (we will!), students will have the option of watching the movie. We will discuss the movie in the next class and compare and contrast the movie to the book.

Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 5
This helps your student meet the 30 minutes of daily reading that help your student grow! According to Scholastic.com, students need 30 minutes of daily reading each day. This time is not always met at school anymore, unfortunately, due to demands of state testing requirements and other demands. (I'm a public school teacher, so, sadly, I can attest to this.) 

Reading skills can affect children's future academic success, helps improve writing skills, stimulates and enhances creativity, creates schema (a much needed tool for understanding and comprehension), as well as creates empathy.

You and your student purchase the novel we'll read before class starts. Together in class, we'll read. Sometimes we will read round robin style (students reads a page, I read a page) with whoever is comfortable reading aloud, and sometimes I will read out loud. As we read together, I'll come up with comprehension questions, so we'll spend the last 5-10 minutes discussing the chapters we've read.

After the fourth and final class, students will have the option of watching the movie adaptation of the book. An optional class will be listed to discuss the movie, and compare and contrast the book to the movie.
Learning Goals
My goal is to foster a love for reading in each student. However, along the way, we'll also improve reading fluency skills, including making predictions, author's purpose, cause and effect, conflict, character analysis, comprehension, text to self, text to world, text to text connections, drawing conclusions, inferencing, asking questions, weekly vocabulary, all through discussion.
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Syllabus

Curriculum
Follows Teacher-Created Curriculum
4 Lessons
over 4 Weeks
Lesson 1:
Chapters 1-6
 We will go over vocabulary, then round robin read chapters 1-6, then discuss. Students will read chapters 7-8 as homework. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Chapters 9-13
 We will go over vocabulary, then round robin read chapters 9-13, then discuss. Students will read chapters 14-16 as homework. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Chapters 17-20
 We will go over vocabulary, then round robin read chapters 17-20, then discuss. Students will read chapters 21-22 as homework. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Chapters 23-26
 We will go over vocabulary, then round robin read chapters 23-26, then discuss. We will discuss the overall theme of the book, character changes and interactions. 
50 mins online live lesson

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Supply List
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo - digital or hard copy
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Joined May, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a 4th grade English Language Arts and Reading teacher in Texas. This is a novel study that I do with my class each year!

Certifications held:
- Early Childhood - 6th Grade General Education
- ESL (English as a Second Language) 
- Gifted and Talented
- Science of Teaching Reading (phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics and word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, content knowledge development, and comprehension)

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$19

weekly or $75 for 4 classes
1x per week, 4 weeks
50 min

Live video meetings
Ages: 8-11
2-8 learners per class

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