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Middle School English
(Reading and Critical Thinking)

Worried about your child’s reading skills? Need a quick boost before STAAR or test next school year?


Our 3-Week Reading Crash Course for Grades 5–8 is here to help! In just one hour a day your child will strengthen essential reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way from student mentors. Whether they struggle with understanding what they read, answering open-ended questions, or identifying themes, this course breaks everything down, clearly boosting their reading comprehension skills.

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Why choose our course?
We cover critical topics including: 

  • Main idea/theme

  • Inference-making

  • Grammar

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STAAR vocabulary or strategies for tests

  • Each week includes Kahoots and Blookets where students test their knowledge and win prizes, keeping learning exciting and competitive.

  • Game-Based Learning

  • Easy to Understand & Fun: Everything is explained in a simple, student-friendly way with plenty of examples, group discussion, and opportunities to ask questions.

  • Give your child the confidence to conquer reading tests—and actually enjoy the process!

 

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Curriculum:

  • Identifying main idea & summarizing​

  • Finding theme & author purpose.  Identifying cause & effects in text

  • Context clue for unknown words.  Comparing & contrasting passage

  • Kahoot, or blooket *students will answer questions based on skills learned and win prize.

  • Comparing multiple text with similar themes.  Making inferences from text

  • Differentiating fact v opinion.  Evaluating arguments & claims in persuasive text

  • Strategies for answering multiple choice questions. Short answer response practice

  • Kahoot, or blooket *students will answer questions based on skills learned and win prize.

  • Answering open-ended questions with evidence.  Analyzing nonfiction text structures

  • Identifying figurative language in poetry.  Understanding mood & tone in poetry

  • Summarizing informational text.  Vocab most common on STARS test

  • Kahoot, or blooket *students will answer questions based on skills learned and win prize.
     

Suitable for students in Grade 5-7.

 

This summer, let's work on boosting your child's confidence in this important SAT section!

 

Frequency of classes: 3 times a week.  Monday and Wedesday 4:30 to 5:30pm, and Friday 4pm to 5pm.

Duration of course: This course takes 3 weeks to complete it's curriculum.  

What if I missed some classes?  If you missed some classes, you can make these up in the following course.

 

Fees:

For those who attends HITTA 2025 Summer Camp -

Others - 
 

Meet the Team

This is our highly energetic team of teachers who are some of our brightest high school students in Katy.  All of them have achieved a very high level of success in academic and extra curriculum activities.  They are also leaders in their schools and neighborhood.  They are dedicated to sharing their expertise and experience to help youngsters to be successful as they are. 

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