Orton Gillingham Intermediate Reading and Phonics Course Part 1 of 2

In this 10-week course, students will expand on their phonetic understanding to learn to identify, read, and blend phonemes such as sh, th, and wh, and phonetic rules for spelling. They will increase their reading capacity to read CVCC, CCVC, and VCe words.

This course will prepare them for more fluent reading and will help them to read longer and more complex books. We will go through one phoneme each session, with 1-2 phonemes being introduced each week.  From the second session onward, there will also be review of all previous phonemes embedded in each session.  

Students will write, speak, share, and interact throughout all sessions. Prior knowledge of the 26 letter names and sounds as well as short and long vowel sounds is needed as this course will build upon those sounds.  They should be able to read short CVC words like can, mop, and hut. You can see my previous course listed as "Beginning Reading - Alphabet Letter Names and Sounds!" if needed to prepare for this course.

The sequence and methodology used will be the Orton-Gillingham approach, a scientifically researched and structured approach to learning to read that works. See the following for a tentative list of which phonemes will be covered each week.
The following are the phonemes we will aim to cover in this course:
sh like in ship
th like in thumb
ch like in chair
wh like in whistle
ang, ing, ong, ung
ank, ink, onk, unk
-ck like in duck
-dge like in bridge
-tch like in witch
-ed for past tense
vowel-consonant-e
s=z like in nose
all like in ball

This course follows the Common Core Standard for ELA for 1st Grade to "know and apply grade level phonics in decoding words." 

This course will utilize a lot of visuals, audio, student hand and finger movements, student participation, and books for a well-balanced multi-sensory approach to learning.

This is a fun and engaging course for emerging readers and I hope to see your little one there!