Are you looking for your child to become a strong, fluent, and confident reader? If you have completed part 1 of this course, join us for part 2 of this fun early literacy course focusing on phonemic awareness, beginning reading skills, letter recognition, blending, and much more. Your student will learn a to identify a new letter and their sound each week using a multi-sensory approach and a variety of strategies that are sure to keep your learner engaged. This fantastic approach to reading intentionally introduces letters to students systematically. 

We will continue with our mastery of the alphabet and working to read with fluency. During class, your student’s learning will be enhanced through theme dress up days, movement, music, songs, and activities.  

To facilitate your students' literacy development, we will implement the Learning Dynamics Reading System. Learning Dynamics is a nationally recognized program that helps students develop language and comprehension skills. In part two of this course, students will master the letters J, F, O, X, I, Z, W, K, V, U, E, Q, and Y. We will also begin to look at long vowel sounds.

Students will have explicit instruction on blending sounds together. As we add an additional letter each week, students gain an understanding of how individual letter sounds, phonemes, fit together to create words. Sight words will be introduced to support students’ fluency and confidence in reading. 

To build phonemic awareness, an essential and foundational skill in early literacy, students will spend time each class focusing on phonemes in words and identifying how words are similar and different. 

You can expect to see your student using songs, stories, manipulatives, rhymes, games and movement actives as a they master each letter of the alphabet. We will integrate other early childhood learning objectives throughout the course including number sense, counting, shapes, colors, patterns, vocabulary, and weekly crafts as they relate to our letter study. To support your student’s continued learning at home, I will provide you with a weekly newsletter containing suggested read aloud books, activities, and resources.

I look forward to meeting you and your student as they work on become fluent readers from the comfort of your own home!

FLEX COURSE: 
I will upload one weekly video lessons that includes an intro or review of the weekly letter, a song, a group movement activity, modeling of early reading skills, phonemic awareness practice, and building and blending words. Each week you will have a weekly assignment that you can complete at your own pace and then upload to the classroom by video or picture. I will provide you with various activities to choose from as a second weekly assignment to complete and share with the class. They may include a letter scavenger hunt, a sensory activity, a book to read and respond to, or much more. I will provide feedback on your work. Classmates can interact and encourage each other with feedback and participation in a weekly question. 

Sample Class Agenda: 

- Welcome
- Introduce the weekly letter
- Song reinforcing the letter
- Class activity and movement 
- Fine motor skill activity
- Phonics & Phonemic Awareness instruction
- Reading Comprehension Activity
- Goodbye Song

Learning Goals: 
Students will master letter-sound correspondence for 13 letters of the alphabet during part 2.
Students will learn letter-sound relationships systematically.
Students will practice sounding out words with letter-sound blending.
Students will build phonemic awareness by manipulating letters and identifying how new letters change existing words.