During the first meeting the student will be assessed to identify strengths and areas of growth. The assessment will determine exactly what phonics patterns the student can decode (read) and encode (spell). Then, based on the results, gaps in phonics knowledge can be identified.

The assessment has three parts:
1. Letter-Sounds Diagnostic – Student is asked to produce the sounds of the letters.
2. Diagnostic Spelling Test – Student will be asked to spell CVC words.
3. Diagnostic Word Reading Assessment – Student will be asked to read words.


In this class the student will engage in activities to develop phonemic awareness, learn all about CVC words, master short vowels and short vowel word families, learn beginning and ending digraphs, as well as long vowel sounds. During each class they will learn a different phonics skill and practice using that skill in order to read and write words.

The following will be covered during weekly meetings based on student's needs:

*Letter Sounds
*Rhyming Practice - identifying two words that rhyme, sorting rhyming pictures
*Syllable Segmenting - counting the number of syllables in a word, sorting pictures by number of syllables
*Blending and Segmenting - listening to phonemes and blending them, and counting the number of sounds 
*CVC Words - Initial Sounds
*CVC Words - Ending Sounds 
*CVC Words - Medial Vowel Sounds 
*Short Vowel Sounds  Activities
*Beginning Digraphs
*Ending Digraphs
*Long Vowel Sounds