This is an ongoing class that incorporates songs/movement; anchor charts; teacher modeling/directing; strong student engagement/participation; and visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities – including Phonics Dance* - to strengthen the learning process.  “Chunking” is a decoding strategy that teaches and trains the eye to recognize letter combinations in words, rather than letter-by-letter.  When learners become confident in these word chunks, you will see improvement in phonemic awareness, which will directly affect reading fluency, accuracy, and writing development.
*used with permission by Ginny Dowd (creator of Phonics Dance)

Here is what you can expect during each meeting:
Review (quick review of previous patterns)
Pattern Introduction (learners will be exposed to 10-12 words containing the weekly patterns)
Phonics Dance (we will put movement and rhyme to each phonics pattern)
Tap it Out (we will tap out parts and decode the word together)
Word Detective (we will identify words within a sentence with the patterns of the week)
Catch-and-Spell (we will encode several words with the weekly pattern) 
Word Sort (we will create a word sort with each pattern, and use pictures to determine the correct word)
*Fix the Sentence, if time (we will read a sentence together and correct the mistakes)

Here is a schedule of what will be covered each week during this 18-week course:
Week of July 1st: /ar/ and /or/
Week of July 8th: /ir/ and /er/
Week of July 15th: /sh/ and /th/
Week of July 22nd: **QUARTERLY BREAK** 
Week of July 29th: /qu/, /ch/, and /wh/
Week of August 5th: /wr/, /kn/, and /ph/
Week of July 12th: /all/, /ink/, and /ank/
Week of July 19th: /ing/ and /ed/
Week of July 26th: /ace/ and /ice/
Week of September 2nd: /tion/ and /ion/
Week of September 9th: /dge/ and /ture/
Week of September 16th: /ai/ and /ay/
Week of September 23rd: /ee/ and /ea/
Week of September 30th: /igh/, /oa/, and /ow/
Week of October 7th: /ue/, /ui/, and /ew/
Week of October 14th: /aw/ and /au/
Week of October 21st: /oo/
Week of October 28th: /ow/ and /ou/
Week of November 4th: /oi/ and /oy/
Week of November 11th: /ar/ and /or/
Week of November 18th: /ir/ and /er/
Week of November 25th: /sh/ and /th/
Week of December 2nd: /qu/, /ch/, and /wh/
Week of December 9th: /wr/, /kn/, and /ph/
Week of December 16th: /all/, /ink/, and /ank/
Week of December 23rd: **QUARTERLY BREAK**
Week of December 30th: /ing/ and /ed/