In this class, students will learn 3rd, 4th & 5th grade English Language Arts curriculum.  Each week learners will learn homophones, grammar usage, affixes, and reading comprehension.  Each of these topics has been chosen to help your child reach their learning objectives as well as to give them the knowledge and confidence they need to succeed. Learning these skills will ensure that learners have strong literacy, reading, and writing skills.  

For further practice, learners will play educational review games on Nearpod.  Nearpod is a student-paced virtual interactive lesson to practice and assist in deeper comprehension. Each lesson will contain videos, quizzes, games, polls, and more. 

Learners will play a fun Kahoot show-style game each week for practice and deeper comprehension. This game includes fourth and fifth-grade language arts questions and will cover homophones, grammar usage, affixes, and reading comprehension.  Kahoot is interactive software that allows students to answer questions on their devices. Students will compete against others to answer questions correctly.  Students will receive praise for correct answers, and the top three winners will be recognized at the end of the game. This class is best suited for children attending fourth or fifth grade in the spring of 2022.  

📣Each week for 7 weeks we will learn English Language Arts.
🎥 Every Monday I will post a  grammar video. I will be about 7-10 minutes.  I will also post a worksheet to use along with the video.
🎥 Every Tuesday I will post a reading comprehension video. It will be about 11-15 minutes.  I will also post a worksheet to use along with the video
🏆Every Wednesday I will post a link to the Kahoot quiz.  It is a short 10-question quiz to help your practice what you learned.  Answer as fast as you can as you race again other learners.
📄Every Thursday you get to play a fun interactive Nearpod review lesson
👉Every Friday I will post a discussion game so we can all get to know each other better and review what we are learning.   

 Week 1
~Classroom introduction
~Video instruction and class discussion on types of nouns, homophones (two, to, and too), nouns, and the suffix -fu.  This first week is more of a review of topics that most likely learners have learned. Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Interactive with a teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of Name, Place, Animal, Thing.  Each learner will name a noun that starts with the last letter of the noun that the previous learners named. 


Week 2
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (there’re, there, and their), subject and object pronouns, and the suffix -less.  Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with a teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review. 
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of whoosh! Learners will read a sentence that is posted in the classroom and take turns filling in the correct pronoun. 

Week 3 - 
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (bear, and bare), verbs, and the suffix -er. Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with a teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review. 
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of I know the Verb! Learners will respond to a post in the classroom by posting emojis, pictures, or videos. 

Week 4 -
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (hair, and hare), adjectives, and the suffix -est. Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review. 
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of Apples to Apples. 

Week 5
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (meet, and meat), adverbs, and the suffix -ly. Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review.
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of I know the Adverb! Learners will respond to a post in the classroom by posting emojis, pictures, or videos. 

week 6
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (stair and stare), interjections, and the suffix -tion. Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review.
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of Interjections! Learners will respond to a post in the classroom by posting pictures, or videos. 
   
week 7
~Video instruction and class discussion on homophones (heard and herd), prepositions, and the prefix pre- Read a short fiction or non-fiction passage with reading comprehension questions. 
~Interactive with teacher-created Nearpod lesson for further review.
~Two creative worksheets will be provided and learners are encouraged to share their completed work. 
~Complete a comprehensive quiz on Kahoot!
-Play an interactive game of prepositions! Learners will respond to a post in the classroom by posting pictures, or videos.