Because reading should be as easy as breathing - now there's AIR. 
Accelerated, Interactive Reading (AIR) is the solution to get your child excited about reading and full of confidence - FAST!
Get ahead, catch up or move non-readers to readers gaining more than one year's skills in only months.

Students will learn letter/sound correspondence, blending sounds together to form words and skills to decode new words through incremental, systematic phonics instruction. While there is no background knowledge required for this course, an individual diagnostic placement test is required at no additional cost.

Participants will complete an average of 1 lesson per 40-minute session. Independent assignments are an integral part of instruction and must be completed before the next scheduled session. Students are evaluated daily via verbal participation and completed written exercises. Benchmark Mastery tests are provided to be sure necessary skills are attained and retained. 

*IMPORTANT! PLEASE NOTE: 
1. Please contact the instructor BEFORE registering for this course. A FREE prerequisite test is required before class acceptance.
2. Classes are formed according to placement test results.

Students are expected to attend all classes. Students may view recordings in the event of absence. Make-up one-on-one sessions and extra tutorial sessions can be scheduled at additional cost.

Weekly Session Topics/Skills:
Week 1: 
Word Attack Skills: Hear and say sounds (such as: a, d, t, h, e, th, ee, f, i); match sounds to letters (such as: i, a, d, m, r, s, t, e); say words (such as: am, meet, ram, rat, seem, sat, at, eat, am, mad) read words (such as: me, meet, ram, sat, sad, rat, see, mad, at, am, ad, sam)
Worksheet exercises: Write the letter for the sound heard (such as: i, r, m, e, t, a, s, d); word reading; word completion; word copying
Support Activities: matching and copying sounds; matching and writing words; match words and complete them, write write words from dictation (such that: ham, this, hat, hit); letter find - circle all the given letter or letter combinations (such as: n, th, s, etc.) in a line of letters.
Reading Checkouts: Read sets of practiced words individually, with no more than one error. 
Benchmark Test: Say words - auditory only (such as: list, mats, reed, last); Sound out then read words (such as: fins, sand, rims, meet, that) with no mistakes. 

Week 2: 
Word Attack Skills: Say sounds (such as: sh, d, h, a, t, e, c, n, i); say sounds (such as: a, d, m, r, s, t, e); Say words (such as: win, wean, an, in, fast, fats, fist, am, win, will) Read words (such as: the, he, seem, ran, she, seen, can, rams)
Worksheet exercises: Write the letter for the sound heard (such as: c, i, sh, n, e, t, a, h, s, d); word reading; word completion; word copying
Support Activities: matching and writing words; match words and complete them, write write words from dictation (such that: ham, this, hat, hit); letter find - circle the all the given letter or letter combinations (such as: sh, th, h, t etc.) in a line of letters.
Reading Checkouts: Read sets of practiced words individually, with no more than one error. 
Benchmark Tests: Sound out then read words (such as: fish, dad, him, mast, this, she) with no mistakes. 

Session meeting days:   Tuesdays
Lesson duration:             45 minutes, 1x weekly
Course duration:             6 weeks