Recognize and use strategies to read common English words.

Develop letter sound and symbol correspondence.

Recognize a closed syllable or CVC word. Use a short vowel sound in a closed syllable or CVC word.

Recognize an open syllable or V, CV word. Use a long vowel sound in a closed open syllable or V, CV word.

Recognize a V_e syllable or word.  Use a long vowel sound for V_e syllables or words, understand there are exceptions. 

Recognize base and multisyllable words that use a VC/CV, VC/CCV, or VCC/CV pattern.   Explain how to divide the word correctly into two syllables. 

Recognize a vowel team syllable or word.  Choose the correct sounds represented by each vowel team in syllables or words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.
Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
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Read irregularly spelled words.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.
Decode multisyllable words.
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Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words (e.g., birdhouse, lighthouse, housefly, bookshelf, notebook, bookmark).

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Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, and syllabication patterns to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

I have two Master’s degrees in Education. I have studied the Orton-Gillingham and science of reading methods as well as degrees in Early Childhood and Elementary education. I was a director of a Head Start learning center for ten years before moving onto the public school setting. 

Homework Offered
Review sound chart, play Go Fish using words with the week's skill embedded in the words.
0 - 1 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Teacher observation of learners in class.
Grades Offered

The Wilson Reading program
Brain-Friendly Reading
 Orton-Gillingham