This is the same class as the Multisensory Phonics and Phonemic Awareness for emergent and struggling readers, but this class is for the older readers. This class will follow the same curriculum, but I am hoping my older students will feel more comfortable in a class of their peers rather than with the young pre-readers. The older students are still welcomed in the original class, but I wanted to make this option available.  
The effects of training phonological awareness and learning to read are mutually supportive. "Reading and phonemic awareness are mutually reinforcing: Phonemic awareness is necessary for reading, and reading, in turn, improves phonemic awareness still further." (Shaywitz, 2003, see References)

**BRING A WHITE BOARD AND MARKER

Each class will begin with a short phonemic awareness warm up together (Kilpatrick). These exercises can have a critical impact on reading success. An appropriate multi sensory phonics lesson based on the Barton Reading system will be shared focusing on an explicit skill or spelling rule.  

Teacher leads students to sound out words that follow the weekly spelling pattern. First we finger spell then write sound lines for each sound in the word, and finally we write the letters to the lines. Student’s vocalizing of each sound while the write is a powerful practice that will improve the fluency of any reader.