In this 4th Grade Reading and Language Flex Class, students will have 3 video lessons each week with a story, twenty spelling words, vocabulary words, and more words to know. There will be comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary assessments at the end of each week that students can take, submit, and be graded with numbers and letter but it is not required. All graded assessment will be sent to parents and they can keep a grade book if they like. The teacher will not be keeping a grade book, will not be suppling a record card, or any type of grade keeping and reporting. The teacher will only supply the assessments and grade them. No required experience or knowledge is needed to take this class.

Each week students will:
* Learn and read a new story 
* Learn and review genre
* Learn a new phonics skill 
* Learn new spelling words
* Learn new vocabulary words 
* Learn a new grammar skill that connects to our spelling words 
* Learn and execute new writing skill
* Learn and practice comprehension skill
* Learn and practice comprehension strategy
* Learn and practice vocabulary strategy

Lesson Plan Snippet:
Story of each week
Week 1: Because of Winn-Dixie
Week 2: Lewis and Clark and Me
Week 3: On the Bank of Plum Creek
Week 4: The Horned Toad Prince
Week 5: Letters Home from Yosemite
Week 6: What Jo Did
Week 7: Coyote School News
Week 8: Scene Two
Week 9: Horse Heroes
Week 10: So You Want to Be President?
Week 11: The Man Who Named the Clouds
Week 12: Adelina's Whales
Week 13: How Night Came from the Sea
Week 14: Eye of the Storm
Week 15: Paul Bunyan

Phonics of each week
Week 1: Short Vowels VCCV
Week 2: Long a and i
Week 3: Long e and o
Week 4: Long e
Week 5: Long u
Week 6: Adding -s and -es
Week 7: Irregular Plurals
Week 8: Words with ar and or
Week 9: Consonant Pairs ng, nk, ph, and wh
Week 10: Words with ear, ir, our, and ur
Week 11: Adding -ed and -ing
Week 12: Homophones
Week 13: Vowel sounds in Shout
Week 14: Compound Words
Week 15: Possessives