Easy Breezy Phonics Series for Young Learners
In this 18-week class, we will progress through a series of phonics skills such as letter recognition, letter sound recognition, digraphs and blends, vowel teams, sight words, and more to create a solid foundation for learning how to read.
Miss Brittany, M.S.Ed
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5.0
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What's included
36 live meetings
24 in-class hoursHomework
1 hour per week. Though not required, families are encouraged to enjoy reading aloud with their students for at least 15 minutes each day.Mastery Evaluation
A certificate of completion will be available upon request at the end of the course.Class Experience
US Grade Preschool - 1
Beginner - Intermediate Level
This 18-week series will provide young learners with an overview of the basic phonetic features of the English language. Each class will begin with a brief check-in and review of the content from our previous session. Students will learn via teacher modeling, guided stories, collaborative games, and fun and simple songs related to phonics rules. Opportunities for practicing letter formation will be built into each session to support learners who are looking to bridge their early reading and writing skills.
I value an emergent teaching style, in which I respond to student interests and needs as much as possible over the course of each session. As such, the order and content of each activity may be slightly modified to ensure that each young learner is as developmentally supported and intrinsically motivated as possible.
The planned structure for this series, lesson by lesson, is as followed:
1. An Introduction to Concepts About Print
2. Letters I, S, and L
3. Letters D, F, R, and T
4. Upper and Lowercase Letters
5. Reading Our First Story Together
6. Letters O and U, Part 1
7. Letters B, P, M, and N
8. Letters H, W, and Y
9. CVC Word Game
10. Reading Our Second Story Together
11. Letters A, E, and I
12. Letters O and U, Part 2
13. Intro to R-controlled Vowels and Vowel Teams
14. Long versus Short Vowel Sounds
15. Reading Our Third Story Together
16. VCE Words (Vowel Consonant E), Part 1
17. VCE Words (Vowel Consonant E), Part 2
18. Letter Y and Its Additional Sounds, Part 1
19. Letter Y and Its Additional Sounds, Part 2
20. Reading Our Fourth Story Together
21. Letter C and Its Additional Sounds
22. Letters Q, X, C, Z, and K
23. Letters J, G, and V
24. Digraphs: th, ch, sh, wh, ng
25. Reading Our Fifth Story Together
26. Vowel Teams ai and ay
27. Vowel Teams ea, ee, ie
28. Vowel Teams ie and igh
29. Vowel Teams oo (Part 1), ow, aw, oy, oi
30. Vowel Team oo (Part 2)
31. Using Phonics to Read Environmental Print
32. Long A and Long O Tongue Twisters
33. Sound-Alike Words
34. Sight Word, Vowel Team, and Sound-Alike Review
35. Reading Our Sixth Story Together
36. Read-Aloud Party!Learning Goals
Students will progress through a series of activities designed to strengthen their knowledge of letter names, letter sounds, CVC words, sight words, VCE words, digraphs, vowel teams, and dipthongs.
Syllabus
36 Lessons
over 18 WeeksLesson 1:
An Introduction to Concepts About Print
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Letters I, S, and L
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Letters D, F, R, and T
40 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Upper and Lowercase Letters
40 mins online live lesson
Other Details
Learning Needs
I hold professional licensure in Moderate Disabilities from PreK-8th grade, and have extensive experience implementing instructional supports for a wide variety of neurotypes. Feel free to reach out with any specific concerns or requests!
Parental Guidance
***Please note: We will sometimes have the option to use scissors and glue during the more hands-on portions of our sessions. While this is not required, families who choose to use scissors and glue should be prepared with the following:
-safety scissors
-non-toxic, washable glue
-family supervision, if family feels it is necessary
If families choose to participate without scissors and glue, they may simply use paper and drawing implements to complete these activities.
Pre-Requisites
While not required, a basic interest in/grasp of letter names and letter sounds will provide students with an especially solid footing as we begin our series.
Joined August, 2021
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Massachusetts Teaching Certificate
Master's Degree in Education from Wheelock College
I hold my MS in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College at Boston University, and I am professionally certified in Early Childhood, Moderate Disabilities, English as a Second Language, and Sheltered English Immersion in the state of Massachusetts. I have over ten years of teaching experience at the early childhood level in a wide variety of racially, ethnically, linguistically, and neurologically diverse settings--lab, private, public, home-based, non-profit, co-op, and virtual--throughout the Greater Boston area. In October of 2023, I completed additional training as a reading instructor through the Ignite Reading Science of Reading Certification Program. I am currently employed as a reading tutor during traditional public schools hours, providing one-on-one phonics lessons to students in grades 1 through 8.
As co-founder of the National SEED Project Emily Style so adeptly summarized in her 1988 essay "Curriculum as Window and Mirror", curriculum should function "both as window and as mirror, in order to reflect and reveal most accurately both a multicultural world and the student herself or himself". This means that it is intrinsically important for ALL educators--including those who may not be members of a marginalized group themselves--to expose every student, regardless of their personal identity markers, to a multiplicity of cultures and ways of being in the world. To ensure that I am up to this crucial task, I have continuously pursued and successfully completed the following graduate-level coursework related to multicultural, multilingual, inclusive, and antiracist instruction over the past seven years:
* Racial and Cultural Identities-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Introduction to Inclusive Early Childhood Education Settings-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Effective Sheltered English Instruction: Second Language Acquisition-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Impact of Special Needs: Early Childhood-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Mathematical Learning for Diverse Learners-Wheelock College at Boston University
* Becoming a More Equitable Educator: Mindsets and Practices-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Reviews
Live Group Course
$470
for 36 classes2x per week, 18 weeks
40 min
Live video meetings
Ages: 5-8
1-5 learners per class
