Come join this interactive, fun class to brush up on your reading and writing skills to help get prepared for fourth grade! 

Class Content:
  Each week we will meet to review fourth grade skills. During class we will use a variety of methods and learning styles including hands-on projects, paper assignments, sorts, visuals, books, and other activities to help all learners engage and make the most of this class and reinforce skills and help prepare for fifth grade. We will play games, complete projects and work on listening skills. 

Why This Class:
I have been a brick and mortar teacher for ten years working with all elementary levels. I have seen through experience that summer is a critical time to keep those skills sharp and prevent the summer slide which can set a learner back up to two months in their education. 

Class Materials:
Each week learners will be sent all print outs prior to class. These print outs will include a variety of activities for class including a book that all learners can print and keep. Learners will also need basic supplies available for class. These will include pencils, coloring materials, scissors, and glue. 

Special Considerations:
Class dynamics may adjust time requirements up to 5 minutes.  

Tech usage:
During class we may play online games utilizing kahoot. Please ensure you’re student either knows how to split their screen or is fine with pairing up with someone or with me depending on class dynamics. 

Class Schedule:
Each day we will start with cursive handwriting practice as bell work for the first 5-10 minutes of class. 
Day 1: Word Study  
Day 2: Reading Skills and Comprehension Activities (books will come from the website reading a-z)
Day 3: Grammar and Writing Skills

Week 1/Week of 5/28: 
Short and long vowels-a, e, i
Fiction-Text Evidence/drawing inferences
Verbs, Adverbs
Writing: Narrative planning and first draft

Week 2/Week of 6/3:
short and long vowels-o, u, oo, ou
Non-fiction-Text dependent/inferencing with history or science
Adjectives, pronouns
Writing: Narrative writing editing and final draft

Week 3/Week of 6/10: 
r controlled vowels-ar, er, or
Fiction-Plot, Theme, Summarizing
prepositional phrases, fragments, run-on sentences
Writing: Opinion writing-what you need

Week 4/Week of 6/17:
silent consonants, schwa words-l/r
Non-fiction-Main idea and summarizing
Capitalization
Writing: Opinion writing-planning and first draft

Week 5/Week of 6/24:
cvc, cvvc, vcv, vcccv, vv
Fiction-Mythology, Compare and contrast with point of view
Commas, quotation marks
Writing: Opinion writing-editing and final draft

Week of 7/1: No Class

Week 6/Week of 7/8:
homophones
Non-fiction-meaning of words, compare and contrast multiple texts on the same topic
Formal vs. nonformal language
Writing: Explanatory/Informative writing-what you need

Writing: 
Week 7/Week of 7/15:
prefixes and suffixes
Fiction-Connections with poetry
Figurative language, similes, metaphors
Writing: Explanatory/Informative writing-planning and first draft

Week 8/Week of 7/22:
compound words, multi-syllable words
Non-fiction-structure of a text, evidence
Synonyms, antonyms
Writing: Explanatory/Informative writing-editing and final draft

**Taught throughout course: 
context clues, parts of literature, illustrations, text/graphic features, theme, plot, characters and setting, poetry