Are you interested in helping your learner boost their vocabulary and strengthen reading skills at the same time?  Come explore this weekly ongoing class to improve your learner's vocabulary, using Wordly Wise Book 6, 4th edition.

This class is designed to be an ongoing class which means you can join in any time. The vocabulary words will not build on each other so you can come have fun with words when it works for your schedule. Each week will be a new set of words and the schedule is listed below.

Our format will be the same each week, but words and reading passages will change each week. Remember, since they don't build on each other, you can jump anywhere in our schedule of meetings. 

Each week we will meet to learn new words as outlined in the book. Your learner will have a list of 15 words per lesson and we will focus on gaining the meaning of those words through context clues, affixes, parts of speech, etc. I love to engage learners with a variety of activities and games to make the learning process fun and help them remember the words! 

We also will explore reading passages to help us be word detectives as we hunt for our new words and further strengthen our understanding of the words.  Please see the list of passage titles in the weekly schedule.

As a licensed teacher with almost 20 years of teaching experience, I try to help students make connections with the words and find helpful ways to remember their meanings. Homework will be an optional activity for families who wish their learner to complete additional work with the weekly words. I am happy to review and check any complete assessment after our weekly class. Feedback with be provided to the family via the Outschool message platform. 

I hope you are ready to love words as much as I do!

All weeks will follow a similar routine/structure for the class and the class structure and dates are listed below.

Class structure - there are 20 lessons in total and then the section will repeat, beginning back with Lesson 1 so you can join in anytime since lesson do not build on each other.

- introduce words 
- investigate word origins, roots, and/or parts of speech
- activity that allows learners to practice using the word through reading and/or writing
  *Activities may include but are not limited to fill in the blank, guess my word, word puzzles, illustrate the word, sentence writing, concept maps, etc.
- exit ticket: teacher will assess students understanding of newly introduced words
- assignment: optional activity for further study of the weekly words

Dates - Please message me if you'd like to know which lesson we are on for the section you are interested in joining.


Week 1 
Lesson 1 words, Story: Lady Liberty: The Statue of Liberty

Week 2 
Lesson 2 words, story:  The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks

Week 3 
Lesson 3 words, story: Land of Contrasts: A Look at Thailand

Week 4 
Lesson 4 words, story: A Different Way to Fly: Blimps

Week 5 
Lesson 5 words, story: A Born Artist: Wang Yani

Week 6
Lesson 6 words. story: The Story of Silk: How Silk is Harvested

Week 7 
Lesson 7 words, story: Home, Home on the Range: The Story of the Cowboy

Week 8 
Lesson 8 words, story: Sacagawea's Great Adventure

Week 9 
Lesson 9 words, story: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water as a Resource

Week 10 
Lesson 10 words, story: Fun and Games: Starting a Toy Company

Week 11
Lesson 11 words, Story: Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D.

Week 12 
Lesson 12 words, Story: The Trojan Horse

Week 13 
Lesson 13 words, Story: The Ship of the Desert

Week 14
Lesson 14 words, Story: The Travels of Marco Polo

Week 15 
Lesson 15 words, Story: Our Brightest Start

Week 16 
Lesson 16 words, Story: The "Unsinkable" Titanic

Week 17 
Lesson 17 words, Story: Graveyard of the Deep

Week 18 
Lesson 18 words, Story: Journey to the Soviet Union

Week 19 
Lesson 19 words, Story: The Great Age of Castles

Week 20 
Lesson 20 words, Story: The Pied Piper of Hamelin


Please note if you do not see a section conducive to your schedule, send me a message as I try to work with families on setting up new sections.

Other Wordly Wise Courses I offer:

Book 5
https://outschool.com/classes/wordly-wise-strengthening-vocabulary-and-writing-book-5-grades-45and-6-gUgebUke?refuid=fLya0wn1


Book 4
https://outschool.com/classes/wordly-wise-strengthening-vocabulary-and-writing-for-grades-3-4-5-Ppciqmdw

Book 3
https://outschool.com/classes/wordly-wise-strengthening-vocabulary-and-writing-ongoing-class-grades-3-and-4-0ZoEyWiZ?refuid=fLya0wn1

Book 2 
https://outschool.com/classes/wordly-wise-strengthening-vocabulary-and-writing-for-grades-2-and-3-kovBxWVV