These Phonemic Awareness Intervention sessions are designed to help readers who may not be successful in blending sounds, finding syllables, substituting sounds, rhyming words, spelling words by sounding them out. In these sessions, we cover all of these skills and delve deeper into some skills for students who are still working on that skill. For example, if your student has a hard time finding rhyming words, I provide additional activities to practice rhyming and finding rhymes. 

What is phonemic awareness?
It is fancy term to describe the ability to think about, identify, and use specific sounds in words. We can blend sounds, segment sounds, and even delete sounds from words to learn.

What to expect during live meetings?
I start live meetings with a short time for hellos/sharing. I find this time beneficial as it helps to get to know students and also incorporate individual interests in the lessons which make the lessons more personalized and fun. The first session is used to get to know your student as a reader. They will complete a verbal reading assessment, so I can see areas they may not be successful yet. In this session, we also complete a fun reading survey that tells me more about their reading interests. In the other sessions, students and I complete a Heggerty Intervention lesson. These lessons are designed to have students blend sounds, segment sounds in words, delete and replace sounds. We use hand movements to have a hands-on and visual way to complete these activities. After, students read a decodable book with my guidance. I may also find different reading strategies would be more beneficial such as "I read, you read." I will send you feedback about the session in a message after class. 

Overview:
1st session - "Get to Know" Reading interests and Assessment

2nd session to 8th session - Phonemic Awareness lesson, Decodable Reading, Specific topic for individual students 

9th session - A second assessment will be given to see progress

10th - Celebration (even if sessions are to continue) - This session is used to celebrate your student's hard work! To keep student motivation toward reading, this celebration session is  still related to reading with two fun options to choose from to complete fun reading activities including bringing your own book to class to share. 

Please, request a time if you do not see one that works for your schedule.