Learn to Read: 1st Gr. Reading | Phonics | Writing | Sight Words

📚 Learners are welcome to join us any time! Be aware that phonics, like math, builds on itself and is taught in a specific order.

📖 Your learner will become a PRO with manipulating complex sound patterns in order to read, spell and write!

DAILY, using games, digital presentations, jingles, hands-on activities (includes shaving cream, play-dough, writing lines, etc.), printables, and other fun approaches, we:
1. Build phonological awareness, the foundation of learning to read;
2. Review the prior week's phonics pattern;
3. Learn and practice our phonics pattern for the week;
4. Learn and practice our sight / high frequency words for the week.  These are the words which readers need to know by heart. 

This class is fully interactive, so students are expected to participate in class during all activities - verbally, on white boards, during games, when we're up and moving, with printed materials, etc. They're also expected to record understanding on their personal dry erase boards, to practice writing on their lined paper, and to create their own Reading Journals. These are activities we will do together in a fun, inclusive, safe and warm environment. Outside of class, students are expected to complete small homework assignments. 

The course Scope and Sequence is posted in the "Learning Goals" section below. It includes instruction in: open syllables; the long a sound using ai & ay; the long e sound using ea & ee; the long o sound using oa & ow; the long i sound using -y & -igh; the long u sound using u, ew, and ue; 3-letter blends/clusters scr, sch, shr, spr, squ, str, thr; r-controlled vowels ar, er, ir, or, ur; short oo as in "book"; long oo using oo & ou; long oo using ew, ue, ui; dipthongs ou, ow, oi, and oy; complex vowels au, au, all; endings -ed, and more!

Students are charged for the full week. While Mrs. Hall does not refund classes she taught, but that students missed, parents may contact Outschool Support with their needs.