Step 1: Phonemic Awareness Fun
The English language is made up of sounds, with letters representing those sounds. We make sure your child is ready to take the first steps towards becoming a confident reader by hearing and repeating the sounds. Through engaging activities like playful sound and spoken word games, segmenting, blending, and sound exploration, you'll foster a love for language and learning.
So the beginning stage of reading is to help children hear the sounds of language by playing with words and their sounds - at the beginning of single syllable words, at the end of those words, and at the middle sound.
Our instruction focuses on teaching students how to blend individual sounds to form words (e.g., /k/-/a/-/t/ spells "cat") and how to segment words into their sounds, the first step to building confidence in reading and spelling. And yet, we do not name the letters nor memorize words! All “spelling” at first is by sound.