1st grade Literacy Skill Builder

Reading is a fundamental building block for a successful education.  It is imperative to teach children how to read in an engaging and stimulating way so that they foster a love for reading that will last a lifetime.  This course will help identify learning gaps your child may have, and help fill them with an individualized high energy class.

Through a fun, engaging learning environment we will learn to decode words using phonics. We will build confidence and reading fluency. This class is ideal for both emergent and struggling readers. Students should be able to identify all letters in the alphabet to successfully take class. If your learner is struggling with a few letters in the alphabet, please contact me prior to enrolling so that I may assist in preparing your learner for this class.  

Over our classtime, we will focus on phonics and fluency  through an energetic and fun  learning environment.  Our class will meet once a week and cover the following lesson objectives: phonemic awareness (both blending and segmenting of words), phonological awareness, phonics instruction (CVC/CCVC/CVCC blends as well as digraphs), and numerous phonics rules. Mixed media is  incorporated in class while implementing a multi-sensory learning approach to engage visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic learners.  For example, visual reasoning and learning consists of visual teaching methods, student created art and images, PowerPoint slides, posters and flashcards.  Auditory techniques include use of YouTube videos, rhymes, language games, peer assisted reading and paired reading.  Tactile techniques consists of using various materials to manipulate letters/words.  Kinesthetic methods consists of gross motor movements such as singing, clapping or other movements paired with phonic activities.

Supplemental documents are provided at no additional costs to assist with weekly learning objectives.  This includes, but is not limited to, detailed lesson objectives, materials to reinforce lesson objectives and materials to continue reinforcing each lesson objective throughout the entire semester.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions and I hope to see you in the classroom soon!