Foundational Reading Skills: Fun With Phonological Awareness

Hello and welcome!
Phonological awareness is the ability to recognize, identify, and manipulate sounds in spoken language, without visual representation of letters.  These skills are greatly tied to a child's ability to read.  This interactive class will rely on listening, verbal, and hand movement activities.  This class is geared toward beginning and/or struggling readers. 
**Please note that there will be no writing or reading of visually printed words.

In this ongoing class, students will learn and practice phonological awareness skills through interactive, auditory and verbal word play with hand movements. For part of the lesson, we will use a workmat (provided) to segment and blend spoken sounds into words.  Your child will need a few small items, which we will use to represent the sounds. (buttons, coins, cheerios, lego, etc.)

Lesson Content:
*Alphabet Flashcards - Each lesson begins with a quick practice of alphabet flashcards.  We will say the letter and sound it makes.  This is the only part of our lesson that contains visual letters. I won't be teaching letter/sounds explicitly, as this is a very quick warm up activity.  **It is not required that children know all of the letters and sounds.
*Rhyming - Identifying and producing rhyming words
*Counting words in a sentence
*Compound words, syllables, onset + rime 
*Phonemic Awareness (individual sounds within words) -  blending, segmenting, isolating, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds 

This class is appropriate for:
*Learners who are entering a 1st grade program and need to solidify/review Kindergarten reading skills
*If your child is already reading fluently, then this class would not be appropriate.

*IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is an ongoing weekly subscription class.  You can join for one class or continue for several weeks. You will be automatically charged each Sunday for the following week once you've subscribed.  When you want to unsubscribe, be sure to do so before Sunday so you won't be charged for the following week.
If a class isn’t scheduled for a particular day, you will not be charged. 
If your child misses a live class, a video of our recorded class will be available for your child to follow along with.