Orton-Gillingham Phonics: Learn to Spell and Read! Level 1

In this class, students will learn and practice different phonological awareness and phonics skills that are foundational to becoming confident and fluent readers and writers. The goal of this class is to teach systematic phonics in an explicit manner. Each child will get practice decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling), as we know that these skills are interconnected. Phonics instruction is an essential component in structured literacy instruction and I hope to make this accessible to all children! 

Class Introduction/Good News Time 5 min
Introduce New Content with Explicit Instruction 5 min
Guided Practice and Independent Practice 15 min
Closing Discussion/Reviewing Material 5 min


Week of April 20th: 
Phonics- Consonants (What Are They? Going Over Phoneme/Grapheme Correspondences) Phonological Awareness- Identify Beginning Sounds    
Heart Word- the 

Week of April 27th: 
Phonics- Consonants Review 
Phonological Awareness- Identify Ending Sounds  
Heart Word- the, a

Week of May 4th: 
Phonics- Vowel Sounds (What Are They? Going Over Phoneme/Grapheme Correspondences)  
Phonological Awareness- Identify Middle Sounds  
Heart Word- and

Week of May 11th: 
Phonics- CVC (Short A and E) 
Phonological Awareness- Blending Onset/Rime
Heart Word- is, his

Week of May 18th: 
Phonics- CVC (Short I and U)
Phonological Awareness- Blending 3 Sounds    
Heart Word- of

Week of May 25th:
Phonics-  CVC (Short O) 
Phonological Awareness- Blending 4 Sounds  
Heart Word- as, has

Week of June 1st: NO CLASS 

Week of June 8th:
Phonics- Digraphs (SH, CH) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (3 Sounds)
Heart Word- to, into

Week of June 15th:
Phonics-  Digraphs (TH, WH) 
Phonological Awareness-   Phoneme Segmentation (3 Sounds) 
Heart Word- we, she

Week of June 22nd:
Phonics-  Digraphs (NG) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)    
Heart Word- be, me

Week of June 29th:
Phonics-  Blends (ST, SM, SK)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)     
Heart Word- so, go, no

Week of July 6th:
Phonics-  Blends (BL, BR)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)     
Heart Word- you

Week of July 13th: 
Phonics-  Blends (DR, PR, GR)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)     
Heart Word- your

Week of July 20th: 
Phonics-  R-Controlled Vowels (OR)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Initial Sound 
Heart Word- they

Week of July 27th: 
Phonics-  R-Controlled Vowels (OR, AR)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Initial Sound 
Heart Word- was

Week of August 3rd:
Phonics-  R-Controlled Vowels (IR, ER)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Initial Sound 
Heart Word- one

Week of August 10th: 
Phonics-  R-Controlled Vowels (IR, ER, UR)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Final Sound 
Heart Word- said

Week of August 17th:
Phonics-  CVCE (Long A and E) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Final Sound 
Heart Word- from

Week of August 24th:
Phonics-  CVCE (Long E and I) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Deletion Final Sound 
Heart Word- have

Week of August 31st: 
Phonics-  CVCE (Long U) 
Phonological Awareness-  Adding Initial Phonemes 
Heart Word- do, does