Shelton Summer 2026 Catalog - Flipbook - Page 22
Grades 5-8
Course Descriptions
ProCreate for iPad
Grades 5-6
Do you want to learn how to create art and animation on an iPad? Join us as we learn how to use Procreate
to bring our drawings to life! Remember Author/Illustrator Don Tate’s visit to Shelton in September? This is
the same app that he used to start with basic shapes and turn them into a drawing of a person! We will start
with 3 beginner lessons, so no experience is necessary. Students will explore making shapes move, creating
puzzles for others to solve, and so much more!
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.
Grade levels refer to the grade students will enter in the fall.
Shelton students are given priority on or before April 14.
Aftercare is available for grades 5-8 from 3:30-5:30.
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