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Solve the Mystery, Catch the Culprit! ELA Flex Class

Completed by 2 learners
Ages 8-11
Live Group Class
In this 5 week FLEX class learners will solve an ELA mystery each week.
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:
(242 reviews)

No live video meetings
5 weeks
1-10 learners per class

What's included

Homework
2-4 hours per week. Each week learners will need to print out their worksheets, there will be at least 5 pages Each clue will take around 45 minutes to solve.

Class Experience

US Grade 3 - 5
There are NO live meetings for this class. Instead, the material will be posted weekly, and learners may participate at their convenience. Learners will solve one mystery per week; each mystery contains 5 mini-lessons. 

Each week on a Sunday, an English Language Arts (ELA) mystery will be posted by video to the classroom page. Each mystery requires five clues to be solved, for which learners will need to  1) watch a pre-recorded mini-lesson on the topic, 2) practice new skills in a Kahoot! challenge and 3) complete a printable activity. Each clue will take around 45 minutes to complete. Learners are asked to share their findings with the class Teacher by message, either by typing or video. The teacher will provide feedback by video or message. A report will be available on learner progress upon request. 
On Wednesdays, learners will be invited to share their theories with their classmates by responding to a post on the classroom page by typing or by video as they prefer. Learners may communicate their theories at any time, as their suspicions may change as the week goes on. Again, the teacher will provide encouragement and feedback. 

On Saturday’s Teacher will open a discussion post to share learner findings, having solved all the clues and caught the culprit. Learners will compare these to their original suspicions, which will make for an exciting discussion.

**Please note the intensity of this class, 5x lessons per week for 5 weeks, if you prefer a lesser intensity please see my alternative classes which are 1x lesson per week, or 2/3 lessons per week.


WEEK 1: THE MYSTERY OF THE TRAINER TANGLER
Clue 1: Retrace their steps with parenthesis
Clue 2: Hedge your bets with word puzzles
Clue 3: A cut above the rest with verb prefixes
Clue 4: Over the hill with editing
Clue 5: Find the culprit with a spelling maze

WEEK 2: WHO STOLE THE EMOJI’S COLOUR? 
Clue 1: ‘Eye’ didn’t do it! with statements and pronouns
Clue 2: Painted prefixes
Clue 3: It’s a mystery with determiners
Clue 4: Terrible texting (spelling & editing)
Clue 5: What’s in a name? with prefixes

WEEK 3: THE MYSTERY OF THE STOLEN SPACE FOOD
Clue 1: It’s a mystery, ‘a’ or ‘an’?
Clue 2: Is it present perfect?
Clue 3: Comma confusion
Clue 4: Lost in a word vortex
Clue 5: To apostrophe or not to apostrophe?

WEEK 4: THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING TOGA
Clue 1: Investigate the spelling patterns
Clue 2: Putting their foot in spelling errors
Clue 3: To comma or apostrophe?
Clue 4: Dastardly prefixes
Clue 5: Battle plan with a suffix maze

WEEK 5: THE RIDDLE OF THE SWAPPED SIGNS
Clue 1: Retrace their footsteps with plural possession
Clue 2: Hedge your bets with word puzzles
Clue 3: Examine the evidence with opposing prefixes
Clue 4: Decipher the message from the culprit
Clue 5: Catch the culprit with a spelling maze

Learning Goals

English Language Arts skills this class will cover :
- spelling & spelling patterns
- punctuation : commas, apostrophes
- prefixes & suffixes
- direct speech
- use of pronouns
- parenthesis
- editing and proofreading
- use of determiners
- the present perfect
- use of plural possession
- subordinate & coordinate conjunctions
- adverbials/fronted adverbials
- using standard English
- using A or An
- homophones
- grammar

Other Details

Supply List
Learners will need to print worksheets
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
All materials will be provided.

Meet the teacher

Joined December, 2020
4.8
242reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Non-US Teaching Certificate in English to Speakers of Other Languages
Bachelor's Degree in English from University of Northampton
I have a BA (Hons) degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Teaching Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools.
I am currently studying an MA in English Literature and am a qualified English Language teacher with TEFL.

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