Heggerty Tier 1 Instruction

Tier 1 - Whole Class Instruction

The Heggerty lessons are designed to be delivered daily as whole class instruction with a unison response. The lessons are oral and auditory, allowing students to hear sounds in words, even if they don't yet know the letters that represent the sound. Heggerty lessons should take no more than 10 - 15 minutes per day. Teachers are encouraged to use the Heggerty lessons as a warm up to Language instruction.

What Resource do I Use?

Junior Kindergarten

All JK students could receive the Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum as a group starting on Week 1 of the curriculum. If you are delivering one lesson to both JK and SK students together, use the Kindergarten Heggerty Curriculum starting on Week 1 of the curriculm.

Senior Kindergarten

Follow the Kindegarten Curriculum starting on Week 1 of the curriculum. For combined grades, use the Heggerty curriculum for the oldest grade.

Grade 1

Follow the Primary Curriculum starting on Week 1 of the curriculum. Phase out hand motions when they are no longer needed to complete the skill.

Tier 1

Heggerty is instructed daily working vertically down the curriculum based on week number and day of the week. If lessons are taking more than 15 minutes, do not skip skills. Instead, reduce the number of words used in each skill and continue to practice all phonemic awareness skills.

Week 1 Curriculum for Pre-Kindergarten

What Does it Look Like in the Classroom?

Junior Kindergarten

Watch Alisa deliver a full Pre-Kindergarten curriculum lesson that includes singing the ABC's, Rhyming Words, Blending Words, Identifying Final Sounds, Segmenting Words, Deleting Words, and Language Awareness.

Senior Kindergarten

Watch Alisa deliver a full Kindergarten curriculum lesson that includes Letter Naming, Rhyming, Onset Fluency, Blending Syllables, Identifying Final Sounds, Segmenting Syllables, Substituting Syllables, Adding Syllables, Deleting Syllables, and Language Awareness.

Grade 1

Watch Alisa deliver a full Primary curriculum lesson that includes Letter Naming - Blends, Digraphs, Vowels, Rhyme Recognition, On Set Fluency, Blending Phonemes, Isolating Final Sounds, Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes, Adding Phonemes, and Language Awareness.

Heggerty Hand Motions

Make learning fun by engaging your students in using the Heggerty hand motions. This will allow students to see, hear, and feel the sounds and parts of words. Hand motions can be faded out in the Primary curriculum when they are no longer needed to complete the skill.

Video Explanation of Hand Motions

Heggerty PDF Guide to Hand Motions

Heggerty Hand Motion Guide for Phonemic Awareness Lessons.pdf

Skill Tutorial Videos

Unsure what a specific skill is or how to teach it? Check out the videos here to learn about each skill and how to demonstrate it using the hand motions. Videos are available for the following skills:

Rhyme
Initial Phoneme Isolation
Blending
Isolating Final Sounds
Isolating Medial Sounds
Segmenting
Adding
Deleting
Substituting
Language Awarenss
Letter Naming/Alphabet Knowldge

The Importance of Clipping Sounds (1).MOV

Don't forget to have students CLIP THEIR SOUNDS!

Clipping sounds helps students to isolate and manipulate the individual phonemes or sounds in words. Clipping sounds means saying the sounds quickly and clearly, without adding any extra sounds or vowels. For example, the sound /m/ is clipped, but the sound /muh/ is not.

Watch your p, t, k, l, r, m, and n!

How do I Make the Skills Visual for Students

Rime using a Felt Board.MOV

Using a Feltboard to Demonstrate Rime

Using a Felt Board (a teacher tool).MOV

Using a Feltboard to Demonstrate Segmenting into Compund Words, Syllables, and Individual Sounds

Onset using a Felt Board.MOV

Using a Feltboard to Identify and Substitute Onset of a Syllable

Rhyme & Rime.MOV

Is Rime a Typo?

'Rime' refers to the vowel and all the letters that follow in a spoken word. 'Rhyme' refers to the similarity of sound between two or more words. For example, in the word 'cat', the rime is '-at', and it rhymes with words like 'bat', 'hat', and 'rat'.

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