Are you ready to supercharge your year in reading? During this ongoing course, learners will be given an introduction to a wide variety of first and second grade phonics skills. Each 30 minute class will highlight a specific skill, and are not cumulative. Learners are able to enroll in the whole course, or pick and choose the weeks' topics that are needed most to review first grade skills, prime the learner for second grade, or give them a great stepping stone for third grade. The topic for the week will be posted in the classroom prior to each meeting. Learners will need a whiteboard, marker, and eraser for each class. Each weeks' topic is below, but are subject to change based on learners' needs:

NOTE: Each section or time slot will cover the same skill for the week, but with different words. If your learner would benefit from additional support or opportunities to practice a skill, they may enroll in multiple time slots.

Once all skills have been taught, the class will loop back to Week 1/s Topic.

First Grade Skills:
Week 1 - Mixed Vowels and Consonants
Week 2 - Consonants and Digraphs with Mixed Vowels
Week 3 - Spellings of /k/ (c-, k-, and -ck)
Week 4 - Alternate Spelling for /z/ (s= /z/)
Week 5 - S Blends with Mixed Vowels
Week 6 - L Blends with Mixed Vowels
Week 7 - R Blends with Mixed Vowels
Week 8 - Ending Blends with Mixed Vowels
Week 9 - Ending Blends with Mixed Vowels
Week 10 - Nasals

Second Grade Skills:
Week 11 (Week of Feb 4)- VCe with Mixed Vowels
Week 12 (Week of Feb 11)- VCe with Mixed Vowels
Week 13 (Week of Feb 18)- VCe with Mixed Vowels
Week 14 (Week of Feb 25)- Hard and Soft C & G
Week 15 (Week of March 3)- R Controlled: ar and or
Week 16 (Week of March 10)- R Controlled: ar/or/er/ir/ur
Week 17 (Week of March 17)- R Controlled: ar/or/er/ir/ur
Week 19 (Week of March 24)- Patterns of Long A
Week 20 (Week of March 31)- Patterns of Long E
Week 21 (Week of April 7)- Patterns of Long I
Week 22 (Week of April 14)- Patterns of Long O
Week 23 (Week of April 21)- Patterns of Long U

END OF COURSE

Other skills:
Week 24 - oi and oy
Week 25 - al, aw, and au
Week 26 - Sounds of oo
Week 27 - ou and ow
Week 28 - Trigraphs
Week 29 - Silent Letters 
Week 30 - Less Common Digraphs
Week 31 -  CVCC Exemptions
Week 32 - Long R Controlled Vowels
Week 33 - Long R Controlled Vowels
Week 34 - Three Letter and Digraph Blends

RETURN TO WEEK 1'S TOPIC

Each week after introducing themselves, learners will:
1) Engage in oral phoneme manipulation (3-5 minutes)
2) Review the learning goal for class and learn skills and strategies (5 minutes)
3) Make words using the new phonics skill (5-8 minutes)
4) Review through reading words or a short passage, and/or playing a game (5-10 minutes)
Note: This course does occasionally utilize games like Kahoot, Nearpod, and Blooket
5) Discuss findings/receive feedback (2 minutes)

Through modeling, interactive discussion, and games, learners will come away from each class with a great starting point to continue expanding their knowledge.