Welcome, 

* Note: This class is only for Phonics, blending, fluency, ect. This class does not cover reading comprehension. Please see my Let's Go Reading class for reading comprehension. 

This course is Levels 4 and 5 of my reading program for upper elementary and middle school students who are struggling readers due to dyslexia and other learning disabilities.  The levels in my program are NOT related to grade level. Please see the skills in the description.  This class is designed to help students with exceptionalities, including ADHD, autism, reading anxiety, English language learners, and other learning difficulties.  This class is focused on constructing and repairing the foundations of successful reading. Students will participate in evidence-based reading strategies such as blending exercises, short and long vowel practice, digraph and trigraph practice, CVC Words, spelling, sentence writing, and fluency exercises. In addition, students will participate in custom-tailored presentations that are stimulating and evoke interest in the topic. My strategy for helping struggling students become better readers has proven to be very successful.  This class is largely organized according to The Orton-Gillingham methodology, which is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, and cognitive. This class also utilizes the McGraw-Hill Reading Intervention Tier II RTI program for reading fluency and spelling. 

Activities in this course: 

1. Alphabet drills and sound review
2. Blending drills and strategies
3. Word reading
4. Sight word drills and activities
5. Sentence Reading
6. Spelling drills 
7. Sentence dictation or writing
8. High-interest text reading or decodable texts

This course also incorporates game-based activities for student engagement.

This course covers Level 4 of my reading program, which focuses on the following skills:

1. Any short vowel, cluster, digraph, and "All" word family with the suffix -s 
2. Short Vowels with ng and n2  in CVCC and CCVCC words 
3. Short Vowels with ng and n2  in CVCC, CCVCC Words and Suffx -s 
4. Soft Sounds of C and G in Final Position (1st job of Silent e) in VCCe Words with and without suffix -es
5. Quiet End Clusters in CVCC and CCVCC Words with and without suffix -s
6. Noisy, Noisy and Quiet End Clusters in  CVCC and CCVCC Words with and without suffix -s and -es
7.  Digraph End Clusters with  Suffx-es in VCCC Words 
8. wh in CCVC and CCVCC Words 
9. Suffix-ing with Closed Syllable Words Using No Spelling Rule, 111 Doubling Rule and Drop the Silent e Rule 
10. Suffx-ed with Closed Syllable Words  Using No Spelling Rule, 111 Doubling Rule  and Drop the Silent e Rule

This course covers Level 5 of my reading program, which focuses on the following skills:

1. -tch/ ch with and without suffix -es, when to spell -ch/-tch
2. -dge / j/ with and without suffix -es, when to spell -ge/dje, drop "silent e" rule
3. - VCE "magic  e": a-e, i-e, o-e, u-e, Review soft g and c with magic e
4.  u-e2 rule 
5. 2- syllable words; compound words; syllable division rules; unstressed cl with schwa
6.Fry Level 5 High Frequency words

Learning outline: Approximately 50 minutes of Activities
30 minutes of class time and 20 minutes of post-class activities
1. Warm-up
2. Lesson lecture
3. Guided Practice with teacher
4. Independent practice activity (post-class)

Course Schedule:

Week of 7/3

 Any short vowel, cluster, digraph, or word family with the suffix -s 

Week of  7/ 10

 Short Vowels with ng and n2  in CVCC and CCVCC words 

Week of 7/17

 Short Vowels with ng and n2  in CVCC, CCVCC Words and Suffx -s 

Week of 7/24

Soft Sounds of C and G in Final Position (1st job of Silent e) in VCCe Words with and without suffix -es

 Week of 7/31

 Quiet End Clusters in CVCC and CCVCC Words with and without suffix -s

 Week of 8/7

Noisy, Noisy and Quiet End Clusters in  CVCC and CCVCC Words with and without suffix -s and -es

 Week of 8/14
 Digraph End Clusters with  Suffix-es in VCCC Words 

Week of 8/21
CCVC and CCVCC Words 

Week of 8/28
 
Suffix-Ing with Closed Syllable Words Using No Spelling Rule, 111 Doubling Rule and Drop the Silent e Rule 

Week of 9/4
Suffix-ed with Closed Syllable Words  Using No Spelling Rule, 111 Doubling Rule  and Drop the Silent e Rule

The class will cycle after 10 weeks. Students who have completed this section can move on to level 5 of the reading program.