The students will greatly improve their vocabulary base by learning the vocabulary words from Wordly Wise Book One- Grade Four. There are fifteen words in each of the twenty lessons in the book.  This class will last twenty weeks. We will cover half of the book in this twenty-week course.   The words will be explained by the teacher, using  colorful and interesting slides with an example sentence. Each word has a colorful slide to help students understand the meaning of the word.   A discussion of each word will be given, including for the different parts of speech.  Practice will be provided by using five approaches: finding the meaning using whatever part of speech, using context clues to find just the right word in the sentence, applying the meaning of the word, using the correct form of the word, then reading a narrative using the twenty  words in the lesson.  Each lesson includes a nonfiction narrative of high interest.  My learning style is informal with lots of student interaction. 

Multi-day course: Weekly class routine: Two days per week

Day One of each week:
* Discuss each of the 15 vocabulary words using the colorful accompanying slide.  
* Practice saying the word together.  The teacher will show a picture of the word and discuss its part of speech and usage. 
* Modeling the word in several sentences so students can hear the word using in context
* Complete activities A and B  in the workbook together in class
* Outside of class before day two of the week, students will 
    1.  Complete activities C and D
    2.  Read the weekly story and be prepared to complete the comprehension questions together on day two of the week.  

Second Day of the lesson:
* The correct answers for activities A and B  will be given, along with a discussion of the correct answers.
* The reading passage for the week will be read.  The topic for the weekly stories are listed below. Students are invited to read aloud or the teacher will read the passage.
* The comprehension questions will be completed as a group activity each week.
* As time permits, a Kahoot quiz will be given to check the students' understanding of the words

Each week will follow the same schedule.  
There are 20 lessons in the book.  This multi-day  course will cover half of the book and last for twenty weeks.
The reading passages include the following subject matter for the twenty weeks:
Week one:  Sequoya's Gift of a written language  (The Cherokee people)
Week two:  California's Forest Giants (Redwood and sequoia trees)
Week three: A Long Winter Nap  (Hibernation of the groundhog)
Week four:  One Step at a Time (The story of Sucheng Chan)
Week five:  A Life that Changed ( The story of Hans Christian Anderson)
Week six:  The Emperor's New Clothes
Week seven:  Armed but not Dangerous  (The octopus)
Week eight: The Great Pyramid
Week nine:  The Forty-Niners  (California Gold Rush)
Week ten:  Tokyo and the Sea Monster  (Japanese folk tale)