📖This class is for students who are either severely or moderately struggling with their reading capabilities, this may include.. Slow and broken pronunciation, letter confusion, slow decoding skills, overwhelmed when asked to read, at risk readers and possible dyslexia. It is recommended that students should already know their alphabet and have a general idea of the main consonant letter sounds (however it is not required for them to know them).

🤔After years of teaching and helping students improve in their reading abilities, it has become more and more clear that one of the main causes that can lead to reading failure is the lack of Phonological & Phonemic Awareness. These two skills, though very similar to phonics instruction, are actually the predecessor to phonics. And without these set of skills, student may find reading & decoding to be a rather difficult and strenuous task (even with some of the simplest words/sentences i.e. "rug" or "The cat sat on a rug".)

❔If you have a student who is either new to reading, struggling with their decoding skills, encountering difficulty when memorizing letter sounds etc. then I would highly suggest considering this class. After years of teaching reading instruction and foundational English skills to both native and non-native English speakers, I have found that many times students who are struggling with phonics skills such as pausing between letters, forgetting the letter sounds, mixing up the sounds within words etc. can be at risk of reading failure unless given the proper guidance and instruction. 

👋Which is why this class was made! :) This class has been specifically designed to help students improve in these crucial skills and assist them in their journey to achieving reading success.

☑️We will do this by consistently meeting 3x's a week and for the first 10-15 minutes of class I plan to go through an explicit Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Program that will help the students build up those crucial skills while also implementing Phonics and reading instruction for the remainder of the lesson (15-20 minutes) This can include specific phonics lessons such as learning and blending consonant and vowels, consonant blends, digraphs/dipthongs, decodable passages/sentences/stories and more!

🕑Class Structure:🕗
1. Greetings and Class Rules
2. Phonological and Phonemic Instruction (10-15 minutes)
3. Phonics and Reading Instruction (15-20 minutes)

❗Since this class is on-going, each phonics and reading instruction will be taught as an individual lesson. Below are a few lists of some of the main concepts we may cover in the lessons.

🔊Phonological & Phonemic Awareness🔊
 ✅ Rhyme Repetition
  ✅ Rhyme Production
   ✅Word Isolation
    ✅Blending/Segmenting Words
     ✅Adding/Deleting Words
      ✅Substituting Words
       ✅Syllable Isolation
        ✅Blending/Segmenting Syllables
       ✅Adding/Deleting Syllables
      ✅Substituting Syllables
     ✅Phoneme Isolation
    ✅Blending/Segmenting Phonemes
   ✅Adding/Deleting Phonemes
  ✅Substituting Phonemes
 ✅Alphabet Knowledge
✅Language Awareness


🔤Phonics Instruction🔤
      ☑️Alphabet Knowledge
    ☑️Short and Long Vowel Sounds
  ☑️Consonant sounds and blends
☑️CVC, CVCe, CCVCC, CCVC etc.
  ☑️Digraphs and Diphthongs
    ☑️Compound Words
      ☑️Multi Syllable Words


📖Decodable Reading Texts📖
          ✅Grandma has a Drill
            ✅Farmer Luke Sleeps Late
              ✅When an Egg Hatches
               ✅ Spring Has Sprung
              ✅Splash and Stretch
            ✅A wolf or a sheep
          ✅Types of Horses
        ✅Jay the Horse

Upcoming Classes:

Short Vowels and CVC
Week of Feb, 11th: Short vowel: a
Week of Feb, 18th: Short vowel: i
Week of Feb, 25th: Short vowel: u
Week of Mar, 3rd: Short vowel: e

All of the passages and stories used in this course have either been written or selected by the teacher. And permission has been granted for the passages to be used. :)