Improve reading comprehension skills while learning test taking strategies at the same time!  This weekly ongoing summer camp will prepare your child for standardized reading tests by learning test taking tips, while focusing on a Common Core Reading Comprehension skill each week. I believe in first teaching reading comprehension skills and using them in an authentic way, and then integrating those comprehension and test taking skills together, so students not only become better test takers, but better life long readers.  

My goal as a teacher is to engage students by using a variety of materials in my classes, such as high interest reading passages, visuals, or short films to apply the reading skill of the week.  The format of the class will vary based on the skill for that week.  At the end of each day's class we will practice the skill we learned that day with a fun game of Blooket or Gimkit.  Later in the camp we will apply the comprehension strategies learned while completing practice reading test passages. 

*Note: Classes do not build upon the prior class each week; students may join class at any time.*

Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Mini-lesson of skill 
Modeling of skill as we practice applying the skill of the day with a variety of media (short film, commercial, picture, short story)
Guided and Independent Practice of skill while reading the text of the day
Blooket or Gimkit game to review skill to end the class (As time permits/if applicable to skill)

MONDAY CLASS SCHEDULE
June 5th - Visualizing
June 12th - Summarizing
NO CLASS WEEK OF JUNE 19TH
June 26th- Inferring
July 3rd - Theme
July 10th - Character Traits
July 17th - Tone and Mood
July 24th - Figurative Language (Similes, Metaphors, Idioms)
July 31st - Context Clues
August 7th - Test taking strategies with fiction passages
August 14th - Nonfiction Central Idea
August 21st - Nonfiction Summarizing
August 28th - Author's Reasons and Evidence
September 4th - Test taking strategies with nonfiction passages
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WEDNESDAY CLASS SCHEDULE
June 28th - Visualizing
July 5th - Theme
July 12th- Inferring
July 19th - No class this week
July 26th - Summarizing
August 2nd - Character Traits
August 9th - Figurative Language (Similes, Metaphors, Idioms)
August 16th - Context Clues
August 23rd - Test taking strategies with fiction passages
August 30th - Nonfiction Central Idea
September 6th - Nonfiction Summarizing
September 13th - Author's Reasons and Evidence
September 20th - Test taking strategies with nonfiction passages