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.

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 do people breathe?
Do alligators have a voice?
Week 2: 
What is the first lady’s job?
Is slime good to eat?
How did the Liberty Bell become cracked?
Week 3: 
What are fossils?
Who is Sandra Day O’connor?
What is a snow eater?
Week 4: 
How are ladybugs useful?
What is a barn raising?
Week 5: 
Does a giant redwood tree have giant roots?
What is it like to live on a houseboat?
How does a dragonfly use its legs? 
Week 6: 
What is a love apple?
Does it ever snow in the desert?
Week 7: 
What are Saturn’s rings?
How do Americans thank veterans? 
What are lantern fish?
Week 8: 
How did stories about mermaids start?
How does an earthworm dig tunnels?
Week 9: 
What are feral animals? 
What are the blues?
How can scents change the way you feel?
Week 10: 
Why do groundhogs dig up fields?
Who are the ama?
Week 11: 
Does music charm snakes?
What was the riddle of the sphinx?
What are ant colonies? 
Week 12: 
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
How do animals know the way home?
What is a mannequin? 
Week 13
How can people save water?
What art has lasted for 25,000 years?
What are musk oxen?
Week 14
Has anyone ever gone to the North Pole alone? 
Why is the baobab tree special?
What is Space Camp?
Week 15
What is the Mystery of the monarch?
What is a neighborhood island?
What are the northern lights?
Who was Jim Henson?