🌟  Instruction follows the Phono-Graphix method for teaching reading and spelling which was developed with students with Dyslexia in mind. The Phono-Graphix method is very similar to Orton-Gillingham and is based on the Science of Reading.

👀  In this trial week of my fifth-grade spelling program, students will experience my teaching style, content delivery, assignment expectations, and the difficulty of the class content. This class will help you and your student decide to enroll in my full-program flex class. In the full program, you can expect to see the same predictable format and assignments week after week so what you see in this trial class is what you will get in the full program, just with different word lists.

📓 Students will be assigned a spelling list of 25 words. Five bonus words will be included to accommodate a differentiated learning experience. Feel free to adapt the length of the spelling list to your learner's needs by leaving out or adding in the bonus words. Video instruction will present an explanation of the patterns in the words and spelling rules as they apply. Instructional videos will include proper usage of the spelling words, as well as age-appropriate definitions. 

📅 This class was created with a suggested weekly learning schedule with the first lesson on Monday, lesson two on Wednesday, and lesson three on Friday. The videos are labeled to reflect which lesson to do on which day. 

📹  Monday instructional video: Introduction of the word list. I will model how the student should sort their list to best learn the spellings. Word usage and age-appropriate definitions will be discussed. Student-Teacher interaction following this video lesson includes sharing the sorted list and creative sentences with the teacher for feedback.

📹  Wednesday instructional video: "Spelling for the Visual Learner." In this video, I will model how to add color and shapes to the spelling words in order to identify where all the sounds are in the words and how each sound is spelled. (Colored pencils or fine-tipped markers are highly recommended when following this lesson!). This video session also addresses study skills so students learn how to study effectively for their spelling tests. Many of these skills carry over to other academic classes as well. Student-Teacher interaction following this video lesson includes students posting their creative work using shapes and colors that make the spellings more memorable for their unique style.  

📹  Friday instructional video: I will briefly provide instruction on words that students frequently struggle with so they remember those spellings on the test and beyond.  After a refresher on those frequently misspelled words from the list, a spelling test is given. Students are expected to follow the video to write the spelling words as they are called. I use the spelling words in sentences to clarify ambiguity concerning homophones. Students will write the spelling words and follow along with me to check their work for accuracy. Students are encouraged to post their tests in either a private message to me or on the classroom page. 

✍🏻 Teacher-created worksheets will be available for additional weekly practice. A minimum of two homework submissions per week are recommended.   A video-prompted spelling test is in the third lesson video so students can measure their level of success. 

📝  Content for this one-week trial class: Words with -ant and -able endings like, "honorable, comfortable, lovable, and habitat"

Instruction follows the Phono-Graphix method for teaching reading and spelling. This method is Dyslexia friendly and based on the Science of Reading. 

👉 When you enroll in the full program titled, "Fifth-Grade Spelling With Weekly Lists Focusing on Phonemic Awareness-Flex", a new list will be assigned each week.
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Below are samples of the words from each weekly list in the full 5th-grade program:

Week 1: Words with -ant and -able endings like, "honorable, comfortable, lovable, and habitat" *if you complete this trial class, your student will start on Week 2 and end with Week 7 content when you enroll in the six-week class. Please message me when you are ready to enroll in the full version of the course so you receive weeks 2-7. 

Week 2: Prefixes "un" and "dis", like "uncertain, disconnect, and unequal"

Week 3: Words with the sounds /o/ and /ow/ spelled with "ou", "aw", "au", and "ow" (mound, sauce, gown, fraud)

Week 4: Words with prefixes "re", "pre", and "de" (remind, predate, destroy)

Week 5: Words ending in -ible, -less, and -ment

Week 6: Plurals, -s or -es

Week 7: -ies plurals and Irregular plurals like knives, oxen, halves, varieties, galleries 

Week 8: Prefixes mis-, in-, im-, and il-

Week 9: Endings with -ness and -ily

Week 10:  Long E with -ie or -ei spelling rule

Week 11:  Homophones

Week 12: Words with soft G sounds like, "emergency, genuine, knowledge"

Week 13: Greek roots -graph, -phon, -tele, scope, and photo

Week 14: Greek roots -ology, -ologist, -astro, hydro-, and -geo

Week 15: Words with special ending /shun/ spelled with -tion like in cooperation, circulation, and exhaustion

Week 16: Greek roots -mega, -cycle, -thermo, -ped, -man

Week 17: Prefixes: uni-, bi-, tri-, quad-, and -penta

Week 18: Words with -trans, -dict, -duct, and -duc

Week 19: Words with -poly, -multi, -hexa, -hepta, -octa, -deca

Week 20: Frequently misspelled words like, stomach, business, necessary, sincerely, usually

Week 21: Words with -ious endings:  -cious, -tious, -ious, and -scious "facetious, audacious, dubious"