Are you trying to figure out learning plans for your preschool age student this fall? Are you looking for your child to become a strong, fluent, and confident reader? Join us for a 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.
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 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.
Learning Goals: Students will master letter-sound correspondence for 13 letters of the alphabet during part 1. 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.