In this class, students will learn and practice different phonological awareness and phonics skills that are foundational to becoming confident and fluent readers and writers. The goal of this class is to teach systematic phonics in an explicit manner. Each child will get practice decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling), as we know that these skills are interconnected. Phonics instruction is an essential component in structured literacy instruction and I hope to make this accessible to all children! 

Class Introduction/Good News Time 5 min
Introduce New Content with Explicit Instruction 5 min
Guided Practice and Independent Practice 10 min
Closing Discussion/Reviewing Material 5 min


Week of October 7th: 
Phonics- Consonants (What Are They? Going Over Phoneme/Grapheme Correspondences) Phonological Awareness- Identify Beginning Sounds    
Heart Word- the 

Week of October 14th: 
Phonics- Consonants Review 
Phonological Awareness- Identify Ending Sounds  
Heart Word- the, a

Week of October 21st: 
Phonics- Vowel Sounds (What Are They? Going Over Phoneme/Grapheme Correspondences)  
Phonological Awareness- Identify Middle Sounds  
Heart Word- and

Week of October 28th: 
Phonics- CVC (Short A and E) 
Phonological Awareness- Blending Onset/Rime
Heart Word- is, his

Week of November 4th: 
Phonics- CVC (Short I and U)
Phonological Awareness- Blending 3 Sounds    
Heart Word- of

Week of November 11th:
Phonics-  CVC (Short O) 
Phonological Awareness- Blending 4 Sounds  
Heart Word- as, has

Week of November 18th:
Phonics- Digraphs (SH, CH) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (3 Sounds)
Heart Word- to, into

Week of November 25th:
Phonics-  Digraphs (TH, WH) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)   
Heart Word- we, she

Week of December 2nd:
Phonics-  Digraphs (NG) 
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)    
Heart Word- be, me

Week of December 9th:
Phonics-  Blends (ST, SM, SK)
Phonological Awareness-  Phoneme Segmentation (4 Sounds)     
Heart Word- be, me