English Reading & Writing-G1

Description

This course includes developmentally appropriate reading (foundational skills, literature and informational text), writing, language (including word study, vocabulary and spelling) and speaking and listening experiences. Students are expected to develop the skills to be independent and self-directed learners with the foundational skills to take on complex text. Students will still continue to have experiences with all genres of reading and writing with special attention to informational text.

Schedule: Saturday 9:30-10:30am (1h), 15 lessons, once a week.

Learning Outcome:

PHONEMIC AWARENESS: • Recognize and produce rhyming words • Count words in sentences • Segment, blend or count syllables • Segment and blend onset and rhyme • Identify sounds that are the same or different • Identify and isolate initial, final and medial sounds in spoken words • Blend sounds orally to make words or syllables • Segment a word or syllable into sounds • Add, delete or substitute phonemes.

FLUENCY: • Read aloud with accuracy, comprehension and appropriate rate • Real aloud with expression • Attend to punctuation • Practice fluency in a variety of ways, including choral reading, paired reading and repeated oral reading • Work toward appropriate fluency goals.

VOCABULARY: • Read regular and irregular high-frequency words automatically • Develop vocabulary through direct instruction, concrete experiences, reading and listening to text read aloud • Use word structure to figure out word meaning • Use context clues to determine word meaning of unfamiliar words, multiple-meaning words, homonyms, homographs • Use grade appropriate reference sources to learn word meanings • Use new words in a variety of contexts • Use graphic organizers to group, study and retain vocabulary • Classify and categorize words.

TEXT COMPREHENSION: STRATEGIES: • Preview the text • Set and monitor purpose for reading • Activate and use prior knowledge • Make and confirm predictions • Monitor comprehension and fix-up strategies • Use graphic organizers • Answer and generate questions • Recognize story structure • Summarize text by retelling or identifying main idea • Visualize • Make connections: text to self, text to text, text to world.

SKILLS: • Author’s purpose • Cause and effect • Compare and contrast • Draw conclusions • Main idea and supporting details • Realism/ fantasy • Sequence of events.

About the Teacher：

Hello! My name is Saima, and I’m thrilled to say this is my 18th year teaching English to children and foreign students.

I spent 8 years teaching English to students in Japan. Currently, I am working as an online ESL instructor. I love teaching and watching the young minds shape and mold into wonderful readers and writers. My job as a facilitator is to develop enriching, engaging lessons that stretch the thinking of all my young students.

I graduated with my Bachelor’s degree in science in 1996 and went on to get another Bachelor’s degree in Education in 1999 from the A.M. University. I have been living in Texas for about 15 years and have travelled quite a bit all over the world.