This course helps learners recognize and count syllables in words, and understand the sounds of vowels and consonants. Each unit features short texts with familiar topics to develop basic reading skills. Skills include predicting, inferencing, and answering simple comprehension questions. The objectives include to propel learners to a 1st to 2nd-grade reading level and to build their confi dence in reading new words and sentences.
Unit 1: Intro to Reading
Introduction to vowels and consonants. Recognize and count syllables.
Unit 2: The Short A Sound
Intro to the short A sound in pictures, stories, words (bat, ran, van, tan).
Unit 3: The Short O sound
Intro to short O sound in pictures, stories, words (as in pot, lot, plot, got).
Unit 4: The Short I Sound
Intro to short I sound in pictures, stories, words (as in sip, tip, pit, fit, will, bill).
Unit 5: The Short U Sound
Intro to short U sound in pictures, stories, words (as in cut, must, just, fun, cup).
Unit 6: The Short E Sound
Intro to short E sound in pictures, stories, words (as in test, best, rest, lent, sent),
Introduction to inferencing and predicting.
Unit 7: The Digraph “-ck”
Intro to digraph -ck in pictures, stories, words (as in back, pack, sick, rock).
Introduction to inferencing and predicting.
Unit 8: The Digraph “-ch”
Intro to digraph -ch and trigraph -tch in pictures, stories, words. Introduction to
inferencing and predicting.