This class is to help learners work on the building blocks to become confident readers. Both phonics and phonemic awareness will be taught to each student. Phonics and phonemic awareness are the building blocks to reading fluently. Students that are fluent readers will continue to work on reading comprehension and advanced phonics skills.

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***Please note that I meet every student where they are at. I will personalize each lesson to meet their needs. Therefore, I will not always follow the schedule below. But, I will make sure your child meets all the common core standards!*****

Please contact me if you don't see any times or days that work for you and I will try my best to accommodate.

These skills will include: 
-Print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition, and working towards fluency.
-Once students have reached fluency we will work on reading comprehension skills and irregularly spelled words.

Kindergarten:
-Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
-Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
-Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
-Long and short vowel sounds.

First Grade:
-Identify beginning, middle, and end sounds of a word
-CVC  and CVCe words 
-Orally blending sounds in words
-Rhyming Words
-Read words in common word families
-Identify and distinguish long from short vowel sounds.
-Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.
-Digraphs, Trigraphs, vowel sounds and teams, letter blends
-Recognize and read common and irregularly spelled high-frequency words by sight (e.g., have, said).
-Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Second Grade:
-Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
-Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.
- Use of affixes including prefixes and suffixes to decode meanings of words.
-Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.
-Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
-Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
-Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Third Grade Skills: 
-Read multi-syllable and grade-appropriate, irregularly spelled words.
-Reading with appropriate pace, accuracy, expression, and comprehension.
- Students will work on self-correcting mistakes and re-reading when needed.
-The student and teacher will discuss questions about texts using specific examples from the text and connecting previous parts that they have read.
-Students will read a variety of different texts in their tutoring sessions including: fiction, non-fiction, fables, and poetry. Students will discuss and understand specific text features and main ideas of each specific text.
- Identify and understand metaphors and analogies in texts.
-Utilize text and context clues to determine meaning of new vocabulary words. 
-Discuss point of view in texts.
-Make comparisons between characters in stories and between different texts studied in class.
-Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories.
-Work on reading proficiency skills to help them with fictional texts and nonfiction texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts. 

During each class I will evaluate and take parent input on what your child needs to work on. Each class is personalized to meet your child's needs. I also enjoy seeing what your child is working on in school-- if applicable. I love communicating with parents to help my students to grow and learn. 

Students will be using various technologies, as well as manipulatives to aid them in learning. I will also use music and songs to help students remember concepts being taught. We will play games and practice writing words together. We will also read books together and use the new skills that the student is learning in that class. My classroom will always be engaging and fun.

I hold a reading endorsement, as well as my teaching license, since 2009. My responsibility is to provide literacy assistance to my students to become fluent and confident readers. I am a creative and enthusiastic teacher and happy to meet your child where she is in her journey to becoming a reader. 

The teacher will meet the student where he or she is in their reading journey. It is preferred that the learner knows all his letter sounds and is able to write his letters correctly. I will assess where your child is and use my knowledge as a reading coach to help your child be a successful reader. I am also hoping to impart the love of reading with each of my students. 

****Refunds: Refunds are given following Outschool’s policy. Also-- refunds will be given due to an unexpected emergency or outages. It is up to teacher discretion and Outschool's Happiness Guarantee. ***