The class is relaxed and usually happy, but we are following a planned structured approach to literacy and it is important that students follow along.
 In class we will do phoneme recognition exercises and directed printing practice (lower case only) in our phonics text/workbook, then practice reading and printing some high frequency words and sentences in our little readers and matched workbooks,  Part way through the class we begin some work in another series of readers which we will use later on. Decodable readers are available online for further practice at home.
 Each day we practice  work from previous classes and we learn two to four new words. We sound out all words and always use phonics skills to decode; students at this stage are still working on vowels but can use consonants and should be working on short vowels (sounds in cat, ten, fish, dot, fun). We don't do memorize and guess, and we use pictures only for enrichment.
Over the course of eight weeks we will aim to cover Level 2 and over 20 new words in the Ladybird Key Words Readers (high frequency words, connected text, fluency), more practice and five to ten more vocabulary words in the Canadian Reading Development Series,  plus  twenty to thirty pages of consonants in Check and Double Check Phonics Book 1, plus the vowels short a and short i to support SPELD decodables, and about six to twelve little decodable stories from SPELD Levels 1 and 2. Please note that speed and coverage is adjusted according to student needs and can vary highly depending on age, language issues, coordination and ability to write, etc.