This is an optional class to be used before, during or after my "Reading Readiness: Daily Phonemic Awareness"  class. Whenever the parent would like an assessment of ability or progress they can schedule this class. There are three forms of this test.  

I will put the description of the related class here:
 I will be using the Heggerty Kindergarten Phonemic Awareness Curriculum to teach children who are already identified as "struggling" with reading.  After reaching out to the Heggerty company and receiving permission, I am pleased to be able to offer these lessons on Outschool. The explicitness (direct instruction with continual response from each student) and intensity (five days a week) of this small group class qualifies it as tier two intervention. If your child already understands rhyming, blending, segmenting, counting syllables and words they probably don't need this. If your child is below grade level in reading they probably lack phonemic awareness skills. These skills develop slowly, with lots of repetition and practice. This is why we need to meet five times a week. 

   The program is 35 weeks long. You can sign-up for seven weeks at a time.  The title of the class will tell you what seven weeks it is. Your child should go through the entire 35 weeks unless you schedule an assessment with me. The results of the assessment may help me place the student in a more appropriate section of the program. We start with phonological awareness (words and syllables) and start getting into phonemic awareness (individual sounds) in week nine. The students will respond in unison for most of the activities. I will ask for individual responses on a regular basis. I will provide a link to the Heggerty video and will sometimes use the video to teach. 

   There are ten skills taught in each lesson: rhyming, onset fluency, blending, isolating final or medial phonemes, segmenting, adding, deleting, substituting, alphabet knowledge, and language awareness. Each Heggerty lesson will typically take about fifteen minutes (longer if the students are struggling). For the last fifteen minutes we will practice sequencing sounds (repeating three sounds in a row, helps with auditory memory and discrimination), and reinforcing sound awareness with games on Wordwall.com.