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Summarizing With Colors (Ongoing)

Join me in this ongoing class as I teach readers to color-code texts in order to write clear, concise summaries!
Courtney Aseltine, MAT
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(101)
Class

What's included

1 live meeting
40 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

Does your learner struggle with organizing information from a text to create a concise summary? In this course, we will read short fiction and non-fiction texts and practice writing clear, concise summaries. These texts will be teacher-created. Learners will learn how to engage directly with the text by underlining specific information in different colors, recording this information in a graphic organizer, and turning it into a summary. Color-coding the text is a strategy that helps learners become active readers and allows them to easily organize the information that they're reading. I will model this strategy for students and then they'll complete a summary on their own. Each week we'll alternate between fiction and non-fiction texts. I look forward to helping your learner become a super summarizer! 


June 3: Fiction
June 10: Non-Fiction
June 17: Fiction
June 24: NO CLASS
July 1: Non-Fiction
July 8: Fiction
July 15: Non-Fiction
July 22: Fiction
July 29: Non-Fiction
Aug. 5: Fiction

*Handouts will be provided!

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Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined July, 2020
5.0
101reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Hello! My name is Courtney Aseltine and I live right outside of Charlotte, NC, USA! I am a licensed ELA and ESL classroom teacher and the mother of an 8 and 6 year old. I received my B.S. Degree in  Communication from Boston University, and my Masters of Teaching in TESOL from Salem State University. I spent 8 years teaching ESL in the both middle and high school settings in Massachusetts, before becoming an ESL program specialist. As an ESL program specialist, I helped oversee the ESL department of a large urban district right outside of Boston. I wrote content-based ESL curriculum, lead district-wide professional development, and helped train teachers to provide top-level ESL instruction. I was also selected to present at the Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers of Other Languages Conference three times; twice for my work on integrating content and language instruction.  Aside from being licensed in ESL, I am also licensed in ELA K-12 and have experience teaching both middle school and high school level ELA curriculum.  A year and a half ago I decided to take a step back from public education to spend more time with my own young children. To fill the void left from leaving the classroom, I started my online teaching journey. Since then, I've taught more than 2,000 online classes on multiple platforms, and was recently featured on ABC15 in Arizona as an online learning expert! 

My philosophy is that authentic instruction is engaging instruction. Taking new information and merging it will age-appropriate interests allows students to learn in an exciting way.  I also believe it is important to create lessons that are rigorous and provide students with intellectually-challenging and age-appropriate curriculum. But most importantly, I believe that the classroom should be an inviting, safe space where all children can participate with confidence!

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$14

weekly
1x per week
40 min

Completed by 8 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 7-10
2-6 learners per class

This class is no longer offered
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