Shelton Summer 2025 Catalog - Flipbook - Page 19
5th - 8th
Course Descriptions
Organizational Skills and Study Strategies
(Non-Shelton Students Only)
Grades 7 – 8
Strong study strategies and organization skills can greatly contribute to a student’s academic success. This class teaches
techniques of organization, how to study effectively and efficiently, time management, awareness of personal learning
styles, textbook marking, hints on positive class participation and attitude, outlining strategies for effective writing
and project completion, note-taking, successful homework completion, and test-taking strategies. Upon completion
of this class, students will be better prepared to begin the school year with improved and new study strategies and
organizational skills and a greater awareness of personal learning styles.
(This course is not recommended for current or new Shelton students without the approval of the division head. The
study skills curriculum is taught daily throughout the school year.)
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Grades 5 – 8
Searching for strategies to improve your child’s reading comprehension? In this class students will receive direct
instruction for developing comprehension strategies, such as following directions, getting the facts, detecting sequences,
using context, getting the main idea, drawing conclusions, making predictions, creating imagery, and questioning.
Strategies like these make reading a pleasurable experience.
Sentence Skills
Grades 5 – 6
This class will focus on the four kinds of sentences, parts of speech, punctuation and capitalization, how to combine
sentences, and other foundational sentence-building skills. The students will also practice varying sentence structures
and types of sentences. Journaling will be assigned a few times a week.
Solving Word Problems
Grades 5 – 8
This class will teach specific techniques needed to solve math word problems. Initial activities will include solving simple
word problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Other types of word problems, such as multi-step
problems, will be taught as appropriate for the level of the students in the class.
Spelling Spectaculars
Grades 5 – 8
Come study the science of spelling while systematically analyzing words and sounds. Learn to apply rules for recurring
spelling patterns and spelling formulas for creating derivatives by doubling, dropping, or changing letters.
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