Mastering Reading Comprehension (4th & 5th Grades)

Improve reading comprehension skills while learning test taking strategies and gain confidence on standardized reading tests.  This ongoing course will prepare your child for standardized reading tests by learning test taking tips, while focusing on a Common Core Reading Comprehension skill each week. Students will learn and strengthen reading comprehension skills by using them in authentic ways, and then integrating those comprehension and test taking skills together, so students not only become better test takers, but better life long readers.  

We will use a variety of materials in weekly 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.  Later in the course we will apply the comprehension strategies learned while completing practice reading test passages.  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 to solidify skills in an engaging way.

Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Review of skill 
Modeling of skill as we begin to read the text/short story/short film of the day
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)

*Note: Classes do not build upon the prior class each week; students may join class at any time.*
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NEW SPRING SECTION BEGINS WEEKEND OF JANUARY 25
SCHEDULE FOR SPRING 2025 CLASSES:

Week of January 25 - Visualizing
Week of February 1 - Summarizing
Week of February 8 - Inferring
NO CLASS WEEK OF FEBRUARY 15
Week of February 22 - Theme
Week of March 1 - Character Traits
Week of March 8 - Compare and Contrast Two Characters
NO CLASS WEEK OF MARCH 15
Week of March 22 - Tone and Mood
Week of March 29 - Figurative Language (Similes, Metaphors, Idioms)
Week of April 5 - Context Clues
Week of April 12 - Test taking strategies with fiction passages
NO CLASS WEEK OF APRIL 19
Week of April 26 - Nonfiction Text Structures
Week of May 3- Nonfiction Central Idea
Week of May 10 - Nonfiction Summarizing
Week of May 17 - Author's Reasons and Evidence
Week of May 25 - Test taking strategies with nonfiction passages


Each weekly class will be structured as follows:
Introductions/Ice Breaker
Review of skill 
Modeling of skill as we begin to read the text/short story/short film of the day
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)