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Foundational Reading Skills (Phonemic Awareness and Phonics)

Ages 4-7
Live Group Course
In this 8-week class, students will practice phonemic awareness and phonics skills such as rhyming, beginning sounds, and blending. Students will engage with hand motions and call-and-response style learning using the Heggerty curriculum.
Live video meetings
2x per week, 8 weeks
2-6 learners per class
30 min

What's included

16 live meetings
8 in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. If you would like more practice of these phonemic awareness skills, please let me know. There is no required homework or assignments for this class.
Assessment
An assessment will be given 1-on-1 with your student on the last day of class and will cover the phonemic awareness skills that we learned throughout the course. This will be helpful for you to know which skills your student has already mastered and which skills your student may need a little more practice with.

Class Experience

US Grade Preschool - 1
Beginner Level
In this fun and interactive 8-week class, we will be focusing primarily on phonemic awareness skills that are essential for students to master before beginning reading. These phonemic awareness skills include rhyming, blending, beginning and ending sounds, syllables, onset-rime, and manipulating phonemes (sounds) in words such as substituting and deleting. We will also practice the letters of the alphabet and the sound(s) each letter makes. See the syllabus for the specific topics that will be covered each day. 

We will be following the Kindergarten Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum. To learn more, check out Heggerty's website here: https://heggerty.org/programs/phonemic-awareness/kindergarten/

This class is very interactive and incorporates numerous hand motions and call-and-response type activities. Students will need their camera on and will have their microphone on for much of the class so I can hear if their response is correct. For example, I may say, "bat and cat rhyme. Can you tell me another word that rhymes with bat and cat?" and I will need to hear the learner's response. Later on in the course there will also be some fun phonics activities incorporating the letters and sounds we've practiced.

Each day will be structured similarly and will look something like this:
-Introduction/Cheer of the Day
-Heggerty lesson (includes various topics such as rhyming, syllables, phoneme manipulation, letters and sounds, and language awareness)
-Extra activity such as practicing sounds with a puppet, popping sounds with a pop-it fidget, or reading simple CVC words

A 1-on-1 assessment will be given to your child during the last week. This assessment will cover all of the phonemic awareness skills that we covered in class. This will be helpful for you to know which skills your student has already mastered and which skills your student may need a little more practice with.

If you have any questions, please send me a message!

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Learning Goals

Students will demonstrate phonemic awareness skills including rhyming, blending sounds, counting syllables, isolating beginning and ending sounds, and manipulating phonemes (segmenting, deleting, and substituting).
Students will name each letter of the alphabet and the sound(s) it makes.

Syllabus

16 Lessons
over 8 Weeks
Lesson 1:
Week 1 Day 1
 About Mrs. Gronseth/Introductions
Heggerty Week 1 Activities 
-letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and language awareness 
30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Week 1 Day 2
 Introductions
Heggerty Week 1 Activities 
-letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and language awareness 
30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Week 2 Day 1
 Heggerty Week 2 Activities 
-letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and language awareness
Blending Sounds with a Puppet 
30 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Week 2 Day 2
 Heggerty Week 2 Activities 
-letter naming, rhyming, onset fluency, blending, identifying final and medial sounds, segmenting, substituting, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes, and language awareness
Blending Sounds with a Puppet 
30 mins online live lesson

Other Details

Pre-Requisites
There are no prerequisites for this class. Students can come to class without knowing any letters or sounds or phonemic awareness skills. This class is still very beneficial though to those who already know all of their letters and sounds.
Supply List
No supplies needed. A pop-it fidget toy is optional during week 3.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
We will use the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Kindergarten Curriculum. More information can be found on their website here: https://heggerty.org/programs/phonemic-awareness/kindergarten/

Meet the teacher

Joined January, 2025
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Minnesota Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
I am a licensed teacher with my Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education and a pre-primary endorsement. I have taught 6 years in the public school system, including 5 years in Kindergarten and 1 year in 1st grade. During the 2020-21 and the 2021-22 school years I did distance learning with my students, so I have experience teaching young learners online. I also have experience working at various childcare centers and have done some tutoring. 

In my classroom I incorporated large group reading instruction, guided reading groups, and 1-on-1 interventions into my daily instruction. I have used the Heggerty curriculum in my Kindergarten classroom and with it, have seen amazing growth in my students' phonemic awareness skills. I also have experience with other curriculums that teach phonemic awareness. 

Teaching these foundational skills for reading is my passion! This work is so important to me and imperative for your child’s reading success, and so I will work hard to make the learning fun and engaging for your student.


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