Phonics/Spelling Camp - 2 Days/Week - Consonant Blends, Long Vowels, & More!

Does your child know how to read CVC words, such as bed, pig, and hot? If so, your learner is likely ready to learn consonant blends, digraphs, and vowel digraphs! (If your child has difficulty sounding out CVC words, I have another class that may be better suited for your learner: Phonics FUNdamentals: Blend, Read, & Write CVC Words with Word Families)  

In this twice weekly, 7-week course, we will learn to blend, read and write words with consonant blends and digraphs, CVCC (consonant-vowel-consonant-consonant) words, and CVCE (silent e) words. We will use a systematic approach while incorporating a variety of multisensory techniques and fun activities! A few sight words will be included along the way. 

We will start by doing a fun phonemic awareness activity to help us to hear the target sound, such as singing a silly song or doing a funny chant.

Next, we will review each sound in the word, dramatizing each one. For example, we will “fan” ourselves while making the /f/ sound and “lick” an imaginary lollipop while making the /l/ sound. 

Next, we will do hands-on activities as we sound out each phoneme (each sound in the word) and blend them together. Some examples of these activities are:

- Press in a bubble in a popper toy for each phoneme; for example: /m/ [pop!], /a/ [pop!], /n/ [pop!].

- On a handout (provided) showing rows of boxes, I will demonstrate how to slide a token into a separate box for each phoneme; for example: /s/ (slide). /i/ (slide), /t/ (slide). Please note: The learners are not required to do this activity alongside me. While I am sharing my 2nd camera, it is difficult for me to see whether your child is doing this correctly or not. However, if a parent or other helper is available to supervise, your child would love to play along! (Please remember that per Outschool policy, parents must stay off camera while helping.) 

- After sliding a magnetic token to each phoneme box, we use a magnetic wand to “zap” the word. (The students LOVE this!) 

- Tap on a different part of our arm as we say each phoneme, then “wipe” our arm quickly as we say the word

Every class has fun, different activities! For example, we might pretend to be trains as we make the "ch" sound. 

Each class will feature a slide show presentation illustrating the phonemes and words we are studying.

Every learner will be given chances to speak, demonstrate, and read throughout class.

Here is the list of phonograms that we will be studying: 

Week 1
CVCE words (“Bossy E” rule); sm- blend
Review CVCE, sm- blend; sp-, st-, sn- blends

Week 2
Long A phonograms: digraph ai; ay; CVCE
Review Long A; bl-, cl-, fl- blends

Week 3
Long E phonograms: e, ee, ea, ey, y (end), CVCE (ie)
gl-, pl-, sl- blends

Week 4
Long I phonograms: i, ie, y, CVCE
cr-, pr-, br- blends

Week 5
Long O phonograms: o, oe, CVCE, oa 
fr-, dr-, gr-

Week 6
Long U (yoo) phonograms: u, ue, ew, CVCE
ch-, sh- digraphs

Week 7
Long U (oo): u, ue, CVCE, ew, ou, ui 
Th- digraph; review

We'll have a blast! I hope to see your learner in class!

Mrs. Laura