A fun way to help your kids reading and comprehension is to give them interesting subjects to read about.  Students will read 3 fun short stories from topics in science and history. This helps students learn to love reading, all the while they are practicing and building their skills. This 1:1 class will provide your student an opportunity to read aloud in class, allowing the teacher to help them  as needed.  Students will answer 5 comprehension questions about the story they read. 

Next, the student will write 1-2 paragraphs about their favorite story from class using the writing prompt. We will use the a google doc, (students will be provided a link to) to have the student type up their answer to the writing prompt question. The teacher helps give guidance on their writing, including grammar, punctuation, spelling. These would be considered short essay type writing assignments. (NOTE: typing is preferred as I can offer more feedback in students writing and better able to see their writing, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and so on in typed essays than in written essays.)

This class is meant to be 1:1 to provide the help that students need in both reading and writing.
NOTE: This class is set as 45 minutes, but not all student need the whole time to complete the three stories and writing assignment. But I have this set as 45 minutes for those student who do need this much time to not feel rushed in completing the class assignments. This makes it manageable for all students. 

There are 15 weeks of stories at this level, and will repeat every 15 weeks. Students will be provided a copy of the story and questions in the classroom weekly.

Week 1:
How does a person become president of the United States?
How do animals hide in plain sight?
Week 2: 
What is it like on Venus?
What was the Hindenburg?
What is color blindness?
Week 3:
When did women first vote?
How do insects survive the winter?
Week 4: 
What is the largest flower in the world?
What was the Pony Express?
How do birds migrate?
Week 5: 
Who was Thurgood Marshall?
How do fingernails grow?
Who made the first chewing gum?
Week 6:
What is REM sleep?
How do crash-test dummies save lives?
How do mountains form?
Week 7:
What is the only continent that humans have never lived on? 
How do olives get their taste?
Week 8: 
Does sound travel on the moon?
Is the roadrunner a real bird?
Week 9:
What is manta ray?
Who are The Ninety-Nines?
Week 10:
How was Crater Lake formed?
What are marsupials?
Week 11:
What is bluegrass music?
What are puffballs?
Who is I.M. Pei?
Week 12: 
What is an ani?
Who was “The Yellow Kid”?
How does a Snake move?
Week 13: 
Who was Otzi the Iceman?
What was a quagga?
How did dogs save Nome, Alaska?
Week 14:
How are porcupines born and raised?
What did Thor Heyerdahl prove?
How tough are badgers?
Week 15: 
Where do new words come from?
What do hurricane hunters do?
What is Death Valley?
What are “smart” buildings?