In this interactive flexible schedule class, learners will have a chance to absorb phonemes, engage in multi-sensory sight words, and share their love of cats using the Orton-Gillingham method! 

This class involves joyful play that packs a KVAT punch, based on the Orton-Gillingham approach, which I am trained in for dyslexia. This highly effective approach helps students retain their knowledge through a combination of kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and tactile clues and practices.  Your learner will have fun while retaining important skills that help with becoming a confident, lifelong reader and writer!  Their feline friends will be there to cheer them on along the way!  Joy and fun will be ever-present as we engage with like-minded, fur-loving peers!

During each class, children will interact with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile cues to learn their letter pairings for various phonemes.   These will include relevant visuals for tongue placement and memory devices within the slideshows, speaking practice, listening practice, crossing the midline for kinesthetic sight word practices, skywriting, feeling the words on various materials while writing sight words and phonemes with multi-sensory tools, interacting with the group through prompts and posts, and learning new sight word strategies.  Each class will have visuals of fun cats, silly videos, and a time for sharing about our love of cats far and wide in response to phoneme-related prompts and posts!

The inherently multi-sensory nature of the course, combined with the playful visuals, consistent auditory cues, active practice, and further-reaching tactile touch makes the method well-rounded in engaging young learners.  It packs the KVAT punch; kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and tactile clues make meaning for young readers! This gives struggling readers empowerment over their reading.  

Additionally, this course is effective for students who do not struggle with a learning challenge, as multi-sensory engaging and encouraging repetition are beneficial to every learner at any age!  Students also give special attention to the placement of the tongue, mouth, and lips when certain phonemes are pronounced, using visuals and their reflection.  This helps with pronunciation of each sound/phoneme.The goal with the phonemes is for the child to "see it, hear it, say it, do it," and "use it" with both their body and their hands. In this way, their body and mind both remember these great "cool spelling rules" for a lifetime!  

Every class is kept light and fun with cats galore to boost our joy while we read! The cat reward videos, photos, and sharing time are just an added bonus for cat lovers to unite over!

In each class, we will see cool cats, learn a new phoneme, write that phoneme on a tactile surface, write the phoneme with pencil and paper, see visual cues for the phoneme, practice pronouncing the phoneme, explore various words with the phoneme, and play a game with it too!  Learners will have time at the end to post and share a fun fact about a cat or pet!

We will also practice red "sight" words with more than just our sight, including skywriting, spell-reading with multi-sensory tools, tactile practice in a sand tray or on a similar material, a kinesthetic action, and a fun game for the group!  I have used this curriculum to meet individuals and groups of learners with great results in the classroom setting , small group settings, and individual tutoring.  It can work wonders for the child who needs a little bit of extra support in the multi-sensory department. Classes are structured so that children are actively engaged and have positive confidence in their learning. Every learner is welcomed!

Please note that you will have access to all of the videos, handouts, posts, and games for 30 days after the class closing date as well.  Feel free to go at your own pace! Thank you!

Class Layout:
Week 1
1: sh Brother Digraph Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
2:Red Words "the,one, only, once" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
3: ch Brother Digraph Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
4: Red Words "only, once, of, from" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions


Week 2
5: ay Vowel Team Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
6: -ck Soldier Rule Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
7: Red Words "once, of, from, to" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
8: ee Vowel Team Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions

Week 3
9: "from, to, too, two" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
10: Nearpod Review Games of sh, ch, ay, -ck, and ee
11: Floss Rule for Doubling ff, ss, ll, zz Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
12: Red Words "to, too, two, four" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions

Week 4
13: or Bossy R-Controlled Vowel Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
14: Red Words "two, four, do, does" Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
15: -ing, -ang Ping Pong Champ Digraphs Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
16: ong, ung Ping Pong Champ Digraphs Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions

Week 5
17: Red Words "does, done, don't, gone"
18: oy phoneme Video, Handout, and Engagement Questions
19: Nearpod Review Part 2
20: Coupons and Closing

Nearpod Games (no account needed):
-Matching Pairs
-Time to Climb
-Memory Game

We will utilize teacher videos with student interaction, where students use tactile tracing, kinesthetic skywriting, silly voices, and finger tracing on a touchscreen using Nearpod for those who have a touch screen.  Students without a touch screen can easily participate by utilizing a dry erase board and marker, paper and pencil, or a computer mouse on screen for this part of the class. 

 During our review portions, we will use online Nearpod games, such as memory pairing and phoneme matching.

Students will be encouraged to participate in classroom discussion surrounding scavenger hunt prompts to show answers to questions about cats that relate with each phoneme and red word. We will have opportunities to take pictures and post videos of the answers to cat questions that we hunt for around the house based on the prompts given each week. Students may also choose to post their completed work.  

Every phoneme and red word will have the following joyfully provided:
-interactive video of 3 skywriting, tactile writing, and handwriting examples
-support in pronouncing the phoneme in isolation, blending in words, and reading in  cat-related sentences
-support in spelling each letter of the red word and then the entire word with a multi-sensory, unique practice from Orton-Gillingham training
-optional worksheet for practice with sayings provided posted in the classroom
-online game such as matching, identifying, or memory
-classroom discussion post prompting optional scavenger hunt to share feline findings with group through picture, video, or text
-ideas posted for fun, at-home practice that can be shared back with the group 
-opportunity for each child to give voice and choice on favorite ways to practice the phoneme in a cat-friendly way and to show others through classroom discussion
-opportunity to interact with other learners' posts that answer prompts (photos/videos of phoneme building, tracing/writing, letter finds)

If your child loves cats, is a hands-on learner, or needs support in phonemes for learning to read, this is the perfect, interactive, engaging class for you!