The main goal of this course is for students to gain confidence in their reading skills: sound and word identification, reading tone and inflection, and pausing. Key word identification, underlining main idea and squiggle line supporting ideas. Students will improve memorization skills and will apply the strategies listed above to write a one-two sentence summary for each small paragraph or set of bullet points. Students build reading speed and fluency through daily practice and hearing English speaking models in the form of a native English speaking teacher and other students. 

Teacher suggestion: This is a course that is meant to have 20 meetings. All 20 meetings are suggested for student to achieve optimum success. Topics can continue  per parent communication. 

Class structure is as follows: Welcome/ Warm Up/ Teacher Model (reading), Guided Practice (alternating turns while reading), Independent Practice (teacher model & student summary)/ Share Out 

Teacher will use many methods for engaging reluctant readers. (I'll read a sentence, then they read a sentence). 

Teacher will gauge readers progress and provides immediate verbal feedback to students in a way that builds student confidence.

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Meeting 1     Topic  Bizarre Beasties
Meeting 2     Topic  More Bizarre Beasties
Meeting 3     Topic  Branching Out
Meeting 4     Topic  Buffalo Blotters
Meeting 5     Topic A Fishy Story

Meeting 6      Topic 1  Snow Big Deal
Meeting 7      Topic 2  The Two Elephants
Meeting 8      Topic 3  By Any Other Name
Meeting 9      Topic 4  More By Any Other Name
Meeting 10    Topic 5  12 Odd Whale Facts


Meeting 11     Topic 1  The Wonderful World of Weeds Part 1
Meeting 12     Topic 2  The Wonderful World of Weeds Part 2
Meeting 13     Topic 3  Sandier Sardines
Meeting 14     Topic 4  Wild Movies
Meeting 15     Topic 5  More Wild Movies

Meeting 16    Topic 1  More Wild Movies
Meeting 17     Topic 2  Buggy Proverbs
Meeting 18     Topic 3  Very Weird Diseases
Meeting 19     Topic 4  The Petrifying Well
Meeting 20     Topic 5  More The Petrifying Well

Meeting 21     Topic 1  The Raccoon Report
Meeting 22     Topic 2  Take Two Worms and Call Me in the Morning
Meeting 23     Topic 3  Take Two Worms and Call Me in the Morning continued
Meeting 24     Topic 4  There's A Deer in My Bathroom
Meeting 25     Topic 5  Feather Facts

Meeting 26     Topic 1  It's Feral Cat Day
Meeting 27     Topic 2  National Cobra Day
Meeting 28     Topic 3  Dutch National Owl Day
Meeting 29     Topic 4  Rhinoceros Dolphin
Meeting 30     Topic 5  Citizen Canine

Meeting 31     Topic 1  Nature's Pirates
Meeting 32     Topic 2  Nature's Pirates continued
Meeting 33     Topic 3  This Bites
Meeting 34     Topic 4  You Should've Asked Your Mother 
Meeting 35     Topic 5  Home Strange Home 

Meeting 36     Topic 1  Home Strange Home continued
Meeting 37     Topic 2  It's Alive
Meeting 38     Topic 3  It's Alive continued
Meeting 39     Topic 4  What's the Diff?
Meeting 40     Topic 5  What's the Diff? part 2

Meeting 41     Topic 1  What's the Diff? part 3
Meeting 42     Topic 2  Mothers in Nature
Meeting 43    Topic 3  Mothers in Nature continued
Meeting 44     Topic 4  Bodewash & More
Meeting 45     Topic 5  Guano & More

Meeting 46     Topic 1  Real vampires
Meeting 47     Topic 2  Real vampires continued
Meeting 48     Topic 3  V Is for Venom
Meeting 49     Topic 4  Life's A Beach
Meeting 50     Topic 5  Giant Beach Worms

(If unable to attend due to holiday, please let me know and I will send a refund for that single class/classes unable to attend.)