Tutoría Jubilant: Comprensión de lectura y escritura de pasajes en pares de quinto grado

What sets this class apart, like any classroom, is the educator. No boring teachers allowed is a strict rule that I follow daily. The content of the paired passage matters less than the way the teacher delivers the content, and I deliver these already exciting passages in a jubilant, energetic, and humorous style. 

Each week features a new paired passage set, one fiction and the other non-fiction. We read the two short passages, highlighting and discussing the literacy components of each. Students can volunteer to read or listen as I read with voice, tone or when I stop to discuss my self-corrections as I read (we all make them). We then leap into five multiple-choice questions. Here I teach the comprehension and test-taking strategies I have been teaching for over 20 years in the classroom, like actually going back and locating the answer! We then write short constructed responses to those pesky 1-2 sentence responses. Finally, an extended essay-style prompt will be provided for optional homework. And, of course, I have to plug the idea of extending that written essay prompt into one of my other offered classes on Outschool, where I could provide more assistance. 

This is a stand-alone class where the content changes weekly, meaning you can join and leave the class as needed. 

Class schedule:
Week of 8/21/23: PT: Barnum & the Cyclops
 Week of 8/28/23: Why a Lie is a Falsehood & What Came First
Week of 9/4/23: Training on an Anthill & Means of Survival
Week of 9/11/23: A Weapon Not Often Used & Auntie Barbara's Feral Cat
Week of 9/18/23: What Happened in April & The Colossal Cat
Week of 9/25/23: Revolutionary Spy & Inside the Mind of a Sculptor
Week of 10/2/23: Only on the West & When Parched…
Week of 10/9/23: The 900 & Trivial Facts
Week of 10/16/23: The Uneven Steps & Vacation Journal: Ireland
Week of 10/23/23: In a Minute & No Lolling
Week of 10/30/23: Civil War Nurse & Why Nurses Jumped
Week of 11/6/23: True Snake Tails & Wear Rattlesnakes Slither
Week of 11/13/23: Sleeping On Nails & The Impossible Nap
Week of 11/20/23: The Disappearing Man & A Fictional Interview Filled with Facts
Week of 11/27/23: Telltale Hair & Details That Make Don't Make Sense
Week of 12/4/23: The Bald Chimpanzee & Letter from St. Louis
Week of 12/11/23: After 46 years & All My Riches
Week of 12/18/23: One of the Modern Wonders & Agreeing with a Wonder
Week of 12/15/23: A World Below & Where No Person Has Gone Before
Week of 1/1/23: Similar to Coasting on Snow & The Dragon
Week of 1/8/23: The Decapitating Fly & Doctor Ants
Week of 1/15/23: The Largest Country on the Continent & The Good Excuse
Week of 1/22.23: Presidential Anecdotes & Playful Insults
Week of 1/29/23: The Problem with French Fries & One Food Only