When learning to read is fun, kids don't just LEARN to read, they learn to LOVE to read! In this class, we will sing songs, play games, and complete fun activities as kiddos develop their reading skills. 

While the kids are having a blast in class, here are the skills that they will be working on:
     • The Alphabetic Principle: We learn the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds.
     • Phonological Awareness: We take those sounds and start arranging and rearranging them, learning the different ways that they fit together. We work on rhyming, clapping out syllables, and recognizing initial letter sounds in words.
     • Print Awareness: We read books as we learn how print is organized (e.g., we read from left to right, top to bottom).
     • Sight Words: We talk about and practice words that are best identified quickly, without being sounded out.
     • CVC Words: We take the letter sounds (phonemes) that we know and put them together in the order, consonant-vowel-consonant, as we begin to read basic words.

To get an idea of how we build from individual letter sounds to whole words, check out this set of 7 weeks:
     • Week 1: Letter Tt and sight word, "a"
     • Week 2: Letter Ff and sight word, "the"
     • Week 3: Letter Pp and sight word, "see"
     • Week 4: Letter Mm and sight word, "I"
     • Week 5: Letter Cc and sight word, "look"
     • Week 6: Letter Aa and sight word, "at"
     • Week 7: at Family Words

Once we have these letters and sight words under our belt, not only are we able to put our skills to use and read words such as, "cat," "mat," and "pat," but we are also able to read full sentences, like, "I see a mat, or "I look at the cat."