Phonemic awareness is the single most important predictor of reading proficiency.  A well-developed understanding of how to play with the sounds of words is the best way to ensure that your child will become a good reader as they move through the primary school years  This class is designed to help develop a child's phonemic and phonetic awareness so that they can learn how to blend words together when reading. In this class, students will use their ears to listen to make letter sounds and blends and they will use hand motions to connect the sounds to movement.  Each week will follow the same routine with different words and sounds.  After the phonemic awareness activities, students will be introduced to a new phonetic concept through segmenting and blending sounds.  I am an Orton Gillingham-trained teacher and I am skilled at teaching students who are Neurodivergent so all learners are welcome.  
*Please note this class is intended for struggling readers however, all emergent readers will benefit from these lessons.  All learners are welcome!  
The routine will look like this:



Blending Words
We put two small words together to 
make one big word

Phoneme Isolation
We will listen for the last sound we hear in
words. The last sound comes at the end of a
word.

Segmenting Into Words
We will segment the big words we blended
into two smaller words. 

Adding Words
We will add to the end of a
word to make a compound word. 

Deleting Words
We will delete or take away
from the words, we just heard.

Substituting Words
We can change part of a word
to make a new word

Alphabet Knowledge 
We will practice saying just
the name of each letter, and then we will say just
the sound each letter makes