3-week Course Outline
Overview: Each class will include a warm-up, individual direct phonemic instruction, and an interactive lesson based around the core concept of the week. The topics for each week will help to support students in their literacy development as well as to prepare students for entering second grade in the fall.
Week 1
Session 1: Phonemic Awareness Skills - Students will practice phonemic awareness skills.
Session 2: Digraphs, Blends & Glued Sounds - Students will build their literacy skills while reviewing digraphs, consonant blends, and glued sounds.
Week 2
Session 3: Vocalic R, Base Word-Suffix, VCe - Students will build their literacy skills while building, reading and writing words with vocalic R, words with a suffix and words with a long vowel sound.
Session 4: Word Building - Students will be making and breaking words and manipulating sounds.
Week 3
Session 5: Sentence Formation - Students will practice their writing and sentence formation.
Session 6: Wrap It Up and Read! - We will pull together all of the concepts of the past 5 sessions and celebrate the joy of reading!