Ready to Read: I Can Read! - Level 1: Building and Reading Words and Sentences

During this course, students will be working with phonemic awareness, hearing read alouds, sounding out 3 sound (CVC) words, learning a total of 5 new sight words per day, and reading simple sentences. In addition to this, learners will also be exposed to various digraphs. This instruction will help them to successfully decode text that has these phonics skills.


Meeting 1: Short Vowel A words, sight words (a, the, can, run, play), and digraph wh.
Meeting 2: Short Vowel O words, sight words (go, and, big, to, look), and digraph ch.
Meeting 3: Short vowel I words, sight words (I, in, is, it, little), and digraph th.
Meeting 4: Short vowel U words, sight words (two, you, me, my, funny), and digraph sh.
Meeting 5: Short vowel E words, sight words (red, we, see, blue, up), and digraph ck.
Meeting 6: Review all short vowels, sight words, and digraphs. Digraph Scavenger Hunt.

Each course will be interactive, and have opportunities for students to respond to the teacher. After teaching 6 and 7 year olds for 14 years, I know students learn best in a comfortable setting, so I don't expect students to sit perfectly still the entire time. I will be incorporating movement, outside learning videos, etc...to keep their attention.  

****The mute button will not be used unless absolutely needed. However, if background noise becomes problematic I may use the mute function. If I use the mute function, your child will need to be able to unmute themselves when requested. (Or you can be available with your child to help them unmute.)

In order to be ready for this class, students MUST KNOW all letters and sounds. We will be using sound knowledge to begin reading.