**This class is a follow-up to “Sounding Out and Spelling Sight Words: Parts 1 and 2.” Learners who have not completed SOSW1and2 should reach out to discuss whether this class is a good fit before enrolling.

In this class, your learner will receive the foundation for reading "sight words" (and so many other words as well), with clear rules and sound guides. This class is largely based on the "Logic of English" curriculum "Sounding Out The Sight Words" by Denise Eide and Cindy Kringelis. This curriculum is built on the science of reading. Learning the rules for the sounds is a far more efficient way of mastering so-called "sight words" than memorizing by sight. 

Students will be most successful if they have taken Sounding Out Sight Words 1 and 2, or reached out to discuss placement. The teacher reserves the right to withdraw students who have not completed part 1 and 2 or communicated with the teacher prior to enrollment.

Lessons will follow the following format:

Warm up, introductions,
Phonics or spelling skill introduced
Practice with the skill through games
Say-to-spell practice with high frequency words and others with the same sound patterns

Students should be prepared for class with a whiteboard and marker or paper and marker (marker makes it easier for me to see their work). Additional games and activities will sometimes be sent after class for additional practice.

Lesson 1: AW/AU
Dolch words: saw, draw, because, Santa Claus

Lesson 2: OE/ES/contractions
Dolch Words: shoe, don't, goes, does

Lesson 3: EY/EI
Dolch they, their

Lesson 4: Every syllable must have a written vowel. Add silent E.
Dolch Words: little, apple, table

Lesson 5: Add an e to keep singular words that end in s from looking plural. Add an e to make the word look bigger.
Dolch words: horse, house, are

Lesson 6: Add an e to clarify meaning. Add an e--unseen reason.
Dolch words: please, good-bye, were, there, where

Lesson 7: o may say u in an unstressed syllable next to W, TH, M, N, or V
Dolch words: some, come, done, mother, brother, money

Lesson 8: QU/TCH
Dolch Words: squirrel, watch

Lesson 9: EIGH/AUGH
Dolch words: eight, laugh

Lesson 10: UR
Dolch words: hurt

Lesson 11: WR/KN
Dolch words: write, know

Lesson 12: EW/WOR
Dolch words: work, new

Lesson 13: BU/Silent l makes a vowel say its broad sound
Dolch words: buy, walk, could, would

14: Say-to-spell exceptions
Dolch words: any, many, who, said, again, pretty, picture

15. Soft c and soft g
(No Dolch words. Words covered include dance, prince, glance, place, face, age, large, page)

16. Morphology (tw- and one) and exceptions
Dolch words: two, win, twelve, twenty, twice, lone, alone, one, only, once, of, eye