🍎In this class,  we will dig into the content and instructional practice that students would receive within a brick and mortar classroom for their literacy block. Our instructional focus will support learners who are working on a first grade level or students needing standards based support for a first grade student. We will work on the skills, content, and standards students will need to master during their first grade academic semesters 1 and 2. 

For our phonics instructional focus, we will be supplementing the Saxon Phonics framework with phonics rules,  sounds, and systematic approach.  We will focus on a specific phonics skill each class. Have optional spelling and sight words for reinforcement and practice at home. Our phonics skills will be implemented into a fluency passage for context reading during class and at home. 

Our reading strategies will include a standards based approach to support  comprehension for first grade learners. We will include high interest read alouds and text experts, modeling, active student participation with discussion and vocabulary chants, foldables and graphic organizers to extend learning, and assessment pieces to check comprehension mastery and independent levels.

Each class will follow a general pattern for phonics, comprehension, and fluency practice. We will be able to build on skills throughout the week, but each class will have a stand alone focus. 

Students are able to come an go within the semester as long as their is an opening for enrollment. Resources for the week will be sent out a week in advanced to be printed for class. (comprehension passages, graphic organizers, handwriting pages, class support resources) 

🍎Refund Policy:
I am happy to give a $9 partial credit back for enrolling after a class meeting in the week for each day your learner did not attend class, upon request. A $3 credit will be kept for classroom materials and the recordings. You will receive all classroom materials for the week and recordings once we meet to verify learners. If you have any questions about this, please send me a personal message through Outschool.

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                                 🍎New Fall semester to begin August 12, 2024.🍎


🍎Class Framework for 2024- 2025-
 
⭐️Semester 1 to begin August 12, 2024 ⭐️.  
1 week off at Thanksgiving (November 25- 29)
Semester 1 ends- December 20 


(Week of August 12) Week 1: 
Phonics: letters N, O (short and long), T, and P, short o vowel sound. Spelling list 1. 
Comprehension: Key details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- Pete the Cat). 

(Week of August 19) Week 2: 
Phonics: letters I (short and long), L, A, and Z, short /i/ vowel sound. Spelling list 2. 
Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about Key Details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- The Lion and The Mouse). 

(Week of August 26) Week 3: 
Phonics: letters S, D, F, suffix -s, short /a/ vowel sound. Spelling list 3.
 Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about Key Details in a literature story. (Read Aloud- The Fox and the Grapes).

(Week of September 2) Week 4: 
Phonics: letters H, G, R, K, short /e/ vowel sound. Spelling list 4. 
Comprehension: Literature Story Elements. (Read Aloud- The Gingerbread Man). 


(Week of September 9) Week 5: 
Phonics: letters C, B, spelling rules for C and K, short /u/ vowel sound, vc'/cv rule. Spelling list 5. 
Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about information text including key details  in nonfiction texts (Read Aloud: Dolphins)

(Week of September 16) Week 6: 
Phonics: letters M, E (short and long), digraph CK,  spelling rules CK. Spelling list 6. 
Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about information text including key details (Guided Reading: The Moon)

(Week of September 23)  Week 7: 
Phonics: digraph TH, NG,  suffix- ing, -ed. Spelling list 7. 
Comprehension: Ask and answer questions about information text including key details (Guided Reading: Food Chains)

(Week of September 30) Week 8:
Phonics: Letters U , W , dividing syllables with accents vc/cv',  spelling rules  for CK and K. Spelling list 8. 
Comprehension: —Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (Close Read: Not My Dog) 

(Week of October 7)  Week 9:
Phonics: Spelling with a-e, o-e/ u-e , review dividing syllables with accents,  review spelling rules for CK and K, blends. Spelling list 9. 
Comprehension: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (Close Read: The Ghost of Banton Elementary) 

(Week of Oct 14) Week 10:
Phonics: Letters X, Y, Digraph SH,  dividing syllables.   Spelling list 11 
Comprehension:  Ordering events in sequential order in nonfiction text. Referring to graphics, illustration, and pictures for details. What caused -- to happen? How are -- and -- connected in the text? 

(Week of Oct 21) Week 11:
Phonics: digraph OO,  letter J, Floss Rule,  Spelling list 12
Comprehension:  Text Structure- fiction or nonfiction, story is about--, what can we learn from this book, who are the characters, where does the story take place, what happens in the story.  

(Week of October 28) Week 12:
Phonics: Letter V, //c, {ble final stable syllable,  Spelling list 13.  
Comprehension:  Text Structure- fiction or nonfiction, story is about--, what can we learn from this book, who are the characters, where does the story take place, what happens in the story. 

❤️ Week of November 3- the end of daylight savings time. Please check our class to schedule to see how the time changes impacts your timezone. ❤️


Additional week outlines will be added and adjusted based on pace and class need for review and extension.