ELEMENTARY FOUNDATIONS

3rd-5th grade

Elementary Foundations course is designed to enhance students’ reading abilities through sophisticated reading comprehensive strategies designed for younger students. Students will learn strategies for approaching a text, becoming critical readers by working with passages on a variety of topics and developing their active reading skills.​

Students will:

• Develop the tools necessary to determine the topic and main point of a passage.
• Practice their skimming and scanning skills.
• Learn active reading marking system, which will aid them in becoming more effective readers.
• Improve their ability to understand the details within a passage such as inference, style, symbolism, point of view, characterization, and setting.
• Build their vocabulary throughout the course, with a specific focus on how to determine the meaning of a word from context.

Course Duration:

• (1) 30-minute trial class (free of charge)
• (10) 1-hour regular classes