Foundational Reading Instruction for 1st and 2nd Graders

In this highly interactive reading course learners will learn strategies to improve or enhance their foundational reading skills. This course will engage learners by using a large amount of visual anchor charts along with teacher modeling and peer discussion. Digital slides, high frequency word flash cards, and videos will be used to meet a variety of learning modalities.  I believe in meeting learners at their current academic level and providing an encouraging learning environment to facilitate meaningful learning. Learners should come to class with paper and pencil or whiteboard.

Areas of focus: 
Phonics- CVC and CVCE words, vowel teams, word parts, soft and hard C and G, blends, digraphs and trigraphs. 
Phonemic awareness- Manipulating beginning, middle and ending phonemes, rhyming, and syllable work.
Accuracy- Strategies to improve accuracy and self monitoring while reading.
Fluency- Strategies to improve fluency. (examples: scooping, high frequency word practice)
Comprehension- Strategies to improve comprehension (examples: stop and jot, ask questions while you read...) 

Class Structure:
Warm up: Building words by manipulating phonemes followed by a phonemic awareness activity.
Mini lesson: Skill focus of the day.
Guided Practice: Work as a group to practice new strategy.

Week 1: Jan 
             Phonics: CVC word building
             Phonemic Awareness: Rhyming and initial phoneme manipulation
             Reading Strategy: Check the picture and getting a running start

Week 2: Jan. 12
               Phonics: CVCE word building
               Phonemic Awareness:   Initial and final phoneme substitution
               Reading Strategy: Looking for parts we know

Week 3: Jan. 19
             Phonics: Vowel Teams
             Phonemic Awareness: Medial phoneme substitution
             Reading Strategy: Check it! Do a double-check!

Week 4:  Jan. 28
              Phonics: Blends
              Phonemic Awareness: Syllable counting
              Reading Strategy: Try it 2 ways

Week 5: Feb. 2
             Phonics: Soft c and g
             Phonemic Awareness: Syllable deletion
             Reading Strategy: Do a slow check

Week 6:  Feb. 9
             Phonics: Word Parts
             Phonemic Awareness: Syllable blending
             Reading Strategy: Crash the part together

Week 7: Feb. 16
              Phonics: Digraphs
             Phonemic Awareness: Syllable deletion, Syllable blending, Syllable counting
             Reading Strategy: Ask questions while I read

Week 8:  Feb. 23
              Phonics: Digraphs
              Phonemic Awareness: Syllable deletion, Syllable blending, Syllable counting
              Reading Strategy: Stop and jot