After reaching out to the Heggerty company and receiving permission, I am pleased to be able to offer these lessons on Outschool. This class is for kids who have demonstrated a need for phonemic awareness improvement. You may request a private assessment first if you like. The format of this class is all auditory, with visual prompts if needed. The student will listen-and-respond as we cover ten reading readiness skills in each lesson using many words. The student will practice these skills: rhyme, onset, blend, isolate, segment, delete and substitute. We will also practice letter-sound knowledge (I will show flashcards) and language awareness using nursery rhymes. 

We will use the modified schedule that Heggerty recommends when starting in the middle of the year. The program will be 21 weeks long. I will list it in segments of seven weeks. 

  We start with phonological awareness (words and syllables) and start getting into phonemic awareness (individual sounds) in week nine.

Weeks 4-7 we will be practicing medial and final phonemes and blending three, four or more-phoneme words plus reviewing skills introduced earlier. 

 Weeks 8-21 stay tuned for "Reading Readiness: Daily Phonemic Awareness Parts 2 and 3" where we will introduce consonant blends and digraphs. 

  The lessons are fast-paced but the progress is slow because there is a lot of repetition. Phonemic awareness is learned by lots of practice and repetition.  


   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 five minutes we may practice sequencing sounds (repeating three sounds in a row, helps with auditory memory and discrimination), and reinforcing sound awareness with games on Wordwall.com.