First Grade- Phonics and Reading Comprehension- Semester- Full Curriculum

🍎In this class,  we will dig into the content and instructional practice that students would receive within a brick and mortar classroom for their literacy block. Our instructional focus will support learners who are working on a first grade level or students needing standards based support for a first grade student. We will work on the skills, content, and standards students will need to master during their first grade academic semesters 1 and 2. 

For our phonics instructional focus, we will be supplementing the Saxon Phonics framework with phonics rules,  sounds, and systematic approach.  We will focus on a specific phonics skill each class. Have optional spelling and sight words for reinforcement and practice at home. Our phonics skills will be implemented into a fluency passage for context reading during class and at home. 

Our reading strategies will include a standards based approach to support  comprehension for first grade learners. We will include high interest read alouds and text experts, modeling, active student participation with discussion and vocabulary chants, foldables and graphic organizers to extend learning, and assessment pieces to check comprehension mastery and independent levels.

Each class will follow a general pattern for phonics, comprehension, and fluency practice. We will be able to build on skills throughout the week, but each class will have a stand alone focus. 

Students are able to come an go within the semester as long as their is an opening for enrollment. Resources for the week will be sent out a week in advanced to be printed for class. (comprehension passages, graphic organizers, handwriting pages, class support resources) 

🍎Refund Policy:
New Families:
I am happy to give a $9 partial credit back for new enrolling families that enroll after a class meeting in the week has already occurred, upon request. A $3 credit will be kept for classroom materials and the recordings. You will receive all classroom materials for the week and recordings once we meet to verify learners. If you have any questions about this, please send me a personal message through Outschool.

Enrolled families: 
Each learner/ parent account is charged the weekly subscription fee to secure your place in class. Each subscription fee covers a Sunday to Sunday date range. Class fees are not able to be saved for future classes and refunds are not provided for missing class (aligned with Outschool standard refund policies). 

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                                 🍎New Fall semester to begin January 6, 2025.🍎


🍎Class Framework for 2024- 2025-
 
⭐️Semester 1 to begin August 12, 2024 ⭐️.  
1 week off at Thanksgiving (November 25- 29)
Semester 1 ends- December 20
Semester 2 begins- January 6, 2025 
Semester 2 ends- May 23, 2025


(Week of March 17-21)-  🌷SPRING BREAK🌷-  We will not have class this week. You will not be charged for this week. 

(March 31- April 4)- Week 12
Phonics soft g rule and spelling patterns, doubling rule, adding suffix -er and -est to root words.
Comprehension: Close Read text and study on details and illustrations that help us learn in a nonfiction text on the history of pizza.  Details and illustrations make a connection in nonfiction texts. 

(Week of April 7-11)- Week 13
Phonics: Ghost letters- KN, GN, WR 
Comprehension: Close Read text and study of details to support an author's point of view in an informational text plastic bags in the world. 

(Week of April 14– 18) Week 14
Phonics: syllable division and accented vowels in multisyllabic words, vowel digraph IE, final stable syllable [sion
Comprehension: Close Read text and study of details to support an author's point of view in an informational text on inventing ice cream.

(Week of April 21- 25) -Week 15
Phonics: trigraph -TCH and DGE, short and long vowel review with syllabication
Comprehension: Close Read text and study of details to support an author's point of view in an informational text on children and chores.   

(Week of April 28- May 2) - Week 16
Phonics: spelling with -TURE, the sounds of CH and when we use them, digraph WH
Comprehension: Poems-  types, patterns, flow/ cadence, and rhyming patterns. Creating our own poems with rhyme. 

Week of May 5-

Week of May 12-

Week of May 19-

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                                 🍎NEW FALL semester to begin August 11, 2025.🍎


🍎Class Framework for 2025- 2026
 
⭐️Semester 1 to begin August 11, 2025 ⭐️.
Thanksgiving Break (No class)- November 24- 28
Semester 1 ends- December 19
Winter Break (No class) December 22 - January 2
Semester 2 begins January 5, 2026

(Week of August 11) Week 1: 
Phonics: letters N, O (short and long), T, and P, short o vowel sound. Spelling list 1. 
Comprehension: Key details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- Pete the Cat). 

(Week of August 18) Week 2: 
Phonics: letters I (short and long), L, A, and Z, short /i/ vowel sound. Spelling list 2. 
Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about Key Details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- The Lion and The Mouse). 

(Week of August 25) Week 3: 
Phonics: letters S, D, F, suffix -s, short /a/ vowel sound. Spelling list 3.
 Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about Key Details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- The Fox and the Grapes).

(Week of September 1) Week 4: Class will meet on Labor Day. 
Phonics: letters H, G, R, K, short /e/ vowel sound. Spelling list 4. 
Comprehension: Literature Story Elements. (Read Aloud- The Gingerbread Man). 


Additional week outlines will be added and adjusted based on pace and class need for review and extension.