Description
For six weeks, learners will meet twice a week to develop 4th and 5th grade reading, grammar, and writing fundamentals. Students will build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and understanding of the writing process, as well as how to become independent readers and writers.

Learners will work on fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary while reading and writing. They'll learn to identify the subject, describe people and surroundings, make conclusions from the text, and compare different characters' points of view. A major emphasis is placed on grammar, which includes subject-verb agreement, the use of complete sentences rather than run-on phrases and fragments, and the right usage of commonly misunderstood vocabulary. Weekly writing tasks allow students to practice writing a persuasive essay.

Class Experience
Each week, the first lesson will focus on specific reading skills, followed by grammar and writing in the second lesson. (See the chart below for weekly focus skills by week.) Learners will develop comprehension skills through reading and answering guided discussion questions, expand grammar skills, learn how to proofread a text carefully, and finally enrich creative writing skills.

Each lesson will follow the same basic routine.

15-minute mini-lesson (see sequence chart for weekly focus skill) {I do…}

30-minute activity 
(Day 1) Reading passage followed by an activity to practice the focus skill. {We do…}
(Day 2) Writing independently, meeting with Teacher Robin or peers to seek assistance, sharing, or assisting others to include the focus skill in our writing. {We do…}

15-minute group discussion
(Day 1) Learners will participate in a discussion about what they have learned about the focus skill and how this will be used cross-curricular. {You do…}     
(Day 2) Learners will share how they have decided to incorporate the focus skill in their writing, what they like about others’ writing, and ask questions that may help classmates' writing. {You do…}

Weekly Focus Skills 

Week 1: 
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
Prepositional Phrases
persuasive writing (ideas)

Week 2: 
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
Commonly Confused Words
persuasive writing (planning)

Week 3: 
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
Progressive Verb Tense
persuasive writing (add details & descriptions-adjectives, adverbs)

Week 4:
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
Modal Auxiliaries
persuasive writing (revise)

Week 5: 
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
Varied Sentence Structure
persuasive writing (edit)

Week 6: 
Reading: Analyze example persuasive passages
persuasive writing (publish & share)

Please note: 
*If you would like to cover the full curriculum, this is part 5 of 5. 
**Courses may be taken in any order. 
***A $25 refund will be issued for each additional course in the series.
****Class size will be kept to a minimum so that each student will get individualized instruction as needed.