By the end of this course, students will have deepened their understanding of essential foundational skills needed to secure academic success.  The essential skills include the following:  explicit reading instruction, phonics, phonological awareness, sight words, diagraphs, prefixes, suffixes, word families, sentence structure, writing, spelling, math skills (skip counting, adding/subtraction, graphing, positions, 2d/3d shapes, etc.) , writing/drawing (fine motor skill strengthening), and a plethora of more.