Students in this class will need to know their letter sounds to begin decoding words. We will begin each class with a phonics song to review letter sounds and  engage our brains. Afterwards, the word family of the week will be revealed.   We will then "get moving with our sounds"  using Elokin boxes with theme of month and manipulatives (cars, legos, buttons) to guide us in sounding out words.  I will provide mats each month along with suggested manipulative .The brain and body work together as a machine, the brain-body connection and movement are very important to your ability to learn and master reading skills.
  We will begin with short a and work our way through the vowels. Each week, I will introduce  a new word family.  This will help build reading and rhyming fluency  Rhyming words are words that sound the same at the end of the word.   Some of our words will be nonsense words to really focus on decoding.  Are we making sounds of word to help us read? This is an important skill.  Nonsense words follow predictable phonetic patterns. If students have learned the common sounds of the words, they can reveal the depth of their learning in a quick assessment. Assessing nonsense words gives you an idea of what the student might need to work on next.  
Towards the end class , we will write words a few words from our word family list of the week.  Reading and writing go hand in hand. 
 I will also share these word lists in the classroom along with songs that we practiced each week for more practice.

September 6 at word family
September 20 at word family
September 27 am word family
October 4 an word family
October 11 ag word family
October 18 ab word family
October 25 ad word family 
November 1 short a review
November 14 et family