This is a multi-day elementary ELA skills class where learners will meet 2X weekly and work on improving their ELA skills to include reading, comprehension, vocabulary building and grammar.

Learners will work on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and reading comprehension. They will be assessed, engage in choral and partner reading, practice decoding skills, make predictions in their reading, learn to ask questions, review and learn new sight words, practice different writing activities, develop speaking and listening skills. 

Learners will be introduced to new words to build their vocabulary, practice saying the new word, repeat the word/s, practice the spelling and usage of the new word in sentences they create.

The goal of this Elementary ELA Skills class is for each learner to interact and communicate with each other, build their skills and learn to enjoy English Language Arts. 

Week 1:  Introductions, class format, initial reading assessment
Week 2: Pop spelling quiz, writing prompts activity, choral reading activity
Week 3: Introduce new vocabulary words, introduce parts of speech: nouns, pronouns
Week 4: Introduce grammar skills:  types of sentence & paragraph writing, rules for writing, capitalization, punctuation
Week 5-8: Utilizing reading and comprehension strategies, spelling, writing, and grammar skills with Realistic Fiction
Week 9-12 - Utilizing reading and comprehension strategies, spelling, writing, and grammar skills with Non Fiction
Week 13-16 - Utilizing reading and comprehension strategies, spelling, writing, and grammar skills with Poetry
Week 17 - Wrap up, End of session assessments