Reading Foundations 1: Beginning Readers

  • Year-long
  • Lower School
  • Grades K+
  • T 10:30 a.m.

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Come along with me while I teach you to teach your child to read using historic methods. Reading Foundations is about learning all the building blocks of the English language and preparing the student’s body and brain for learning. In this class, I will model the skills for you and your child, and you will implement the activities at home the remainder of the week. In each class, we will explore new phonograms, spelling rules and foundational neurological skills that were once a normal part of childhood and the classical classroom experience.

Get to Know Reading Foundations with Angelique Chaverri

Preschoolers and Kindergarteners are welcome in this class. We will meet once per week for 60 minutes. No prior letter knowledge is necessary but students who are reading small words (1, 2 and 3 letter words) are welcome. In this class, we will begin with the letter A and work through the alphabet. During the second semester, we will begin to learn multi-letter phonograms. Beginning spelling rules will be sprinkled throughout. Each class will have a focus on a specific neurological skill. I will train you to assess these skills in your own student while giving you activities to help improve each area of functioning for your whole family.   The first portion of class will include both you and your student. For the last fifteen to twenty minutes, your student will be free to go have a snack, play, etc. and the focus will shift to you, the parent. We will begin with a Q&A time, then, I will introduce the week’s skill focus. I will explain the skill, what part it plays in learning and how you will address it at home. Sometimes I will ask you to send me pictures or videos of your child doing these activities so that I can further guide you. Along the way, you will develop a more complete understanding of how learning works and come away better equipped to confidently direct your own homeschool. 

Skills addressed in Reading Foundations I:

  • All sounds of many phonograms (example: letter A makes three sounds). We will not have time to cover all phonograms in level I. 
  • Beginning spelling rules 
  • Syllable types 
  • Posture 
  • Grasp 
  • Coordination 
  • Setting up the learning environment 
  • Balance and the vestibular system 
  • Proprioception 
  • Fine Motor 
  • Visual motor and tracking 
  • Auditory skills (figure ground, memory, discrimination, etc.) 
  • Rhyming 
  • Phoneme Manipulation 
  • Development of the feet 
  • Visual skills (visual figure ground, etc.) 
  • How to review 
  • Selected primitive reflexes 

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