Beginner Reading Class for Pre-K/K- Learn to Read CVC Words (Multisensory Instr)

This course is comprised of three units: letters/sound recognition, sight word vocabulary, and word families. Students do need to be able to identify all the letters of the alphabet and identify most of their sounds.These skills will be taught in this order and for each unit a lot of time is devoted towards teaching and reviewing these skills. The specific sight word list (1-30) is from the Dolch list and they will be explicitly taught. These lists will be posted on the weekly classroom page. Alphabet, sight word, and word families charts are used as visual aids. The kids will play fun games such as hide and seek letter/ word hunts, bingo, magnetic letter activities and roll/read games. The word families will be short a, e, i, o, and u. I will also sing letter songs with all the children and incorporate movement activities into every lesson. Every week your child will be reading emergent reader books. They get their own copy so they can read along. I will be sending them on a week to week basis. I always allow a child to bring a special toy or stuffed animal to share with the class. Many times I will incorporate their special friend in the lesson of the day

My background is in Special Education and Reading. I also have been trained in the Orton Gillingham and Handwriting Without Tears approach. Some of my teaching materials come from these programs as well. My style of teaching is multisensory and I always try to address my students' different learning styles as well.

I provide all the reading activities and the only source used on the computer are books from an on-line reading program called Reading A-Z. I bought a paid subscription Reading A-Z and the book is only read during class. It is not given to any student for outside reading material.