Type of Instruction: Rhyming

• Skill: Hearing and repeating rhyming words

• Skill:Rhyme Recognition in word pairs

• Skill: Rhyme Recognition in a series of words

• Skill: Rhyme Recognition: Which word rhymes with*?

• Skill: Rhyme Production with a nonsense word

Type of Instruction: Onset Fluency

• Skill: Isolating onset  phonemes ( initial sounds) in spoken words

• Skill: Phoneme Categorization: Which word begins like *?

• Skill: Identifying same onset phonemes in a series of words or sentence

Types of Instruction: Blending

• Skill: Blending individual words into compound words

• Skill: Blending Syllables into spoken words

• Skill: Blending Body-Coda into spoken words

• Skill: Blending Onset-Rime into spoken words

• Skill: Blending phonemes with Elkonin Boxes

• Skill: Blending phonemes (sounds) into spoken words

Types of Instruction: Isolating Final or Medial Phonemes

• Skill: Isolating final phonemes  in spoken words

• Skill: Identifying same final phonemes in a series of words or sentence

• Skill: Isolating medial phonemes in spoken words

• Skill: Phoneme Location: Identifying a blend as the initial, medial, or final sound

Types of Instruction: Segmenting

• Skill: Segmenting compound words into individual words

• Skill: Segmenting spoken words into syllables

• Skill: Segmenting spoken words into Onset-Rime

• Skill: Segmenting words into phonemes

Types of Instruction: Adding Phonemes

• Skill: Adding words to make compound words

• Skill: Adding syllables to words or word parts

• Skill: Adding initial phonemes to spoken words

• Skill: Adding final phonemes or syllables to spoken words

Type of Instruction: Deleting Phonemes

• Skill: Deleting words from compound words

• Skill: Deleting syllables from spoken words

• Skill: Deleting initial phonemes from spoken words

• Skill: Deleting final phonemes from spoken words

Type of Instruction: Substituting Phonemes:

•  Skill: Substituting a word or syllable in 2 and 3-syllable words

• Skill: Substituting the initial phoneme(s) in spoken word

• Skill: Substituting the final phoneme in spoken word

• Skill: Substituting the medial phoneme in spoken word

Type of Instruction: Alphabet Knowledge

•  Skill:Weeks 1-35: Letter cards for letters A to Z are used to build automaticity with letter names and sounds. This is the only part of the lesson where students see print. We sell letter cards on our website at www.heggerty.org but any set of letter cards can be used to teach this skill. Multiple sounds for vowels and consonants are introduced, and consonant blends and digraphs.

Type of Instruction: Language Awareness

• Skill: Breaking a sentence into separate, spoken words & repeating a sentence.

• Skill: Counting the number of words in a sentence

• Skill: Clapping words in a sentence

• Skill:  Reciting Nursery Rhymes