Learn to Read

The students will learn using a combination of videos, small group instruction, and teacher feedback.  The students will learn the beginning basics to learning how to read.  The students will also gain experience working with different text at their level so that the most growth can be obtained.  Skills will be taught and reinforced using games, activities, videos, and short text passages based on the level of the students.  The students will also incorporate a small writing activity.  Students will focus on phonemic awareness, blending, encoding, decoding, and sharing with their peers.  Our reading time will combine shared reading, choral reading, and independent reading.  Our writing time will include modeled writing, invented spelling instruction, and learning fun tricks to remember unique spelling patterns.  While spelling will not be a large part of instruction, there will be spelling instruction incorporated into the writing portion as we work through writing our stories together.  The students will have an opportunity to share writing to their peers.  The students should be familiar with letter identification and have a general knowledge of phonemic awareness skills such as rhyming, phoneme manipulation, and auditory discrimination.  Homework will be assigned based on what the students need as determined during the classtime.  Progress is evaluated using informal assessments and running records.  
Because this class runs based on student need, provide an exact syllabus of lessons is not possible until the teacher has completed the first set of assessments/conferences with families and is able to drive instruction based on the data gathered in student assessment.