Improve reading comprehension skills while learning test taking strategies and gain confidence on standardized reading tests.  This ongoing course will prepare your child for standardized reading tests by learning test taking tips, while focusing on a Common Core Reading Comprehension skill each week. I believe in first teaching reading comprehension skills and using them in an authentic way, and then integrating those comprehension and test taking skills together, so students not only become better test takers, but better life long readers.  

My goal as a teacher is to engage students by using a variety of materials in my classes, such as high interest reading passages, visuals, or short films to apply the reading skill of the week.  The format of the class will vary based on the skill for that week.  Later in the course we will apply the comprehension strategies learned while completing practice reading test passages.  At the end of each day's class we will practice the skill we learned that day with a fun game of Blooket or Gimkit.

Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Review of skill 
Modeling of skill as we begin to read the text/short story/short film of the day
Guided and Independent Practice of skill while reading the text of the day
Blooket or Gimkit game to review skill to end the class (As time permits/if applicable to skill)

*Note: Classes do not build upon the prior class each week; students may join class at any time.*
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SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2024 CLASSES:
Sept. 10 - Visualizing
Sept. 17 - Summarizing
Sept. 24  - Inferring
Oct. 1 - Theme
Oct. 8 - Character Traits
NO CLASS WEEK OF OCTOBER 15
Oct. 22 - Compare and Contrast Two Characters
Oct. 29 - Tone and Mood
Nov. 5 - Figurative Language (Similes, Metaphors, Idioms)
Nov. 12 - Context Clues
Nov. 19 - Test taking strategies with fiction passages
NO CLASS NOV. 26
Dec. 3 - Nonfiction Text Features
Dec. 10 - Nonfiction Text Structures
NO CLASS DEC. 17 - JAN 3
Jan. 7 - Nonfiction Central Idea
Jan. 14- Nonfiction Summarizing
Jan. 21 - Author's Reasons and Evidence
Jan. 28 - Test taking strategies with nonfiction passages
Feb. 4 - Figurative Language
Feb. 11 - Figurative Language
NO CLASS FEB 18
Feb. 25 - Poetry
Mar. 4 - Poetry
Mar. 11 - Poetry
NO CLASS MARCH 18
Mar. 25 - Poetry
Apr. 1 - Test taking strategies with poetry


Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Review of skill 
Modeling of skill as we begin to read the text/short story/short film of the day
Guided and Independent Practice of skill while reading the text of the day
Blooket or Gimkit game to review skill to end the class (As time permits/if applicable to skill)