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The Wonderful World of Words

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Our class, “The Wonderful World of Words”, will take students on a journey through literacy that is both engaging and academically enriching.  The goal of this class is to support students in improving their ability to read and comprehend texts in a way that fosters a love of literature.

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The class will expose children to high-interest, culturally relevant texts and will teach a myriad of strategies to support them in comprehending texts.  Children will be provided with concrete strategies to support them in becoming proficient and confident readers, writers and speakers

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Some of the components of the program are:

• Vocabulary development through close reading activities of multiple genres and discussion of their unique text features.

• Identifying and utilizing Latin & Greek roots, affixes, and parts of speech to determine word meaning

• Exposure to and practice using higher academic vocabulary words and determining how they are used in context.

• Development of the critical thinking and articulation skills necessary to meaningfully respond to texts that are read. 

• Developing students’ ability to cite and support their ideas through evidence from the text.

• Exposure to verbal reasoning 

• No busy work, targeted work for children to practice.

 

Let's start our journey into “The Wonderful World of Words”.