English Language Arts

The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum provides explicit Phonemic Awareness lessons. The Phonemic awareness lessons take place within the classroom literacy block and provide explicit instruction in the following phonological and phonemic awareness focus skills:

• Rhyming.

• Initial Phoneme Isolation.

• Blending.

• Isolating final and medial phonemes (sounds)

• Segmenting.

• Adding Phonemes.

• Deleting Phonemes.

• Substituting Phonemes.

Teachers College Reading Units of Study

Our District implements the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. The reading and writing units are taught through the structure of a workshop model, which includes a mini-lesson, independent reading, conferences, small group instruction, and a share session. The lessons within the units reinforce word solving strategies, fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension skills that spiral throughout each grade level.