This is a hands-on, active class intended for students who are ready to learn how to read! Learners will receive two videos/week explaining the content, as well as resources and activities to help reinforce the skills being taught.

About the teacher:
I am a dual-licensed teacher (K-12+ Special Education and K-8 General Education) with ten years of experience helping students of all ages and abilities. I hold a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education and a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction. I have also earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Technology and am trained in the Science of Reading through completion of the LETRS program. My career as a public school teacher helped shape me as an educator and allowed me to identify student needs that are not always met by schools. My favorite moments as a teacher often involved working alongside parents to create outside-of-the-box plans to support their student. I have been amazed by what children can accomplish when their unique needs are identified and met.

Scope and Sequence:
We will set the stage for this class by introducing routines and concepts such as ear training (phonemic awareness), mouth training (articulation), and using a sound wall. These routines, along with other essential elements of successful reading instruction, will be used in conjunction with the tentative outline below. After the first few lessons, students will be given beginning decodable texts to read independently. These texts will build confidence by allowing learners to read a passage that uses only the patterns and sight words that they have already learned. 

The schedule below gives a simplified overview of the phonemes and high frequency words we will target each week. (Note: The words listed are NOT the only words students will learn and the week they are listed may not be the first time we use them. These are just the grade-level high frequency or sight words that we will be targeting that week.) 

Week 1: short /a/, /t/; the
Week 2: /s/, /m/; I
Week 3: VC and CVC words, /p/; and, map, pat, sap, tap
Week 4: /n/, CVC words; in, is
Week 5: nasalized /a/, short /o/; am, an, as, man, not, on
Week 6: /d/, c as /k/; did, said, can
Week 7: short /u/, /g/; cut, do, to up, us, got
Week 8: /b/, short /e/; get, ten, men, set, big, of, but
Week 9: s as /z/, /k/; ask, best, end, fast, must, stop
Week 10: VC and CVC practice