“The teaching is geared toward children. The teacher is playful, positive and encouraging” – Heidi B.

Phonological Awareness

Children will be taught active listening skills, auditory processing and comprehension abilities that will help train their ears for reading! Listening is the most critical skill to learn how to read and write. A large portion of the pre-k curriculum focuses on learning how to listen carefully to stories and build endurance to listen to longer stories, which builds vocabulary and visualization skills.

Phonics

Children will be taught how to rhyme, segment syllables and begin identifying sounds, which facilitates letter identification, letter to sound and sound to letter correspondence as well as sound manipulation. Sounds will be taught via a play-based combination of Playful Literacy original activities and the Sounds-in-Motion program by Frances Santore, M.A. CCC-SLP.

Blending

Children will learn how to put learned sounds together to read! Children will begin decoding sounds in a very specific hierarchical structure. Once mastery is demonstrated, they will blend those sounds into simple syllable structures (consonant-vowel; vowel-consonant), which is the first step into reading!