Mrs. Pellin's Post
September 28th to October 2nd

This week we will continue working on segmenting the sounds n, f, l, and z.

I will be using the Michael Heggerty skill based intervention this year with my first grade students. This intervention focuses on Phonemic awareness in its lesson plans. "Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, blend, and segment the sounds into spoken and written words." Studies have shown that this awareness is one key to active reading.

This year we will be studying 9 phonemic skills. These are (ranging from the easiest to the most difficult):

1. Increasing Language Awareness
2. Rhyming
3. Identifying Onsets
4. Blending
5. Identifying Final and Medial Phonemes
6. Segmenting
7. Substituting Phonemes
8. Adding Phonemes
9. Deleting Phonemes

During the next nine weeks I will describe each of the phonemic awarenes skills.

1. Increasing Language Awareness

• Repeating a sentence
• Breaking a sentence into separate, spoken words
• Clapping words in a sentence
• Counting words in a sentence

Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing and implementing educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
September 21st to September 25th

This week we will continue working on segmenting the sounds b, m, and p.

I will be using the Michael Heggerty skill based intervention this year with my first grade students. This intervention focuses on Phonemic awareness in its lesson plans. "Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, blend, and segment the sounds into spoken and written words." Studies have shown that this awareness is one key to active reading.

This year we will be studying 9 phonemic skills. These are (ranging from the easiest to the most difficult):

1. Increasing Language Awareness
2. Rhyming
3. Identifying Onsets
4. Blending
5. Identifying Final and Medial Phonemes
6. Segmenting
7. Substituting Phonemes
8. Adding Phonemes
9. Deleting Phonemes

[each skill listed has subskills with increasing difficulty]

Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing and implementing educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
September 14th to September 18th


I will be using the Michael Heggerty skill based intervention this year with my first grade students. This intervention focuses on Phonemic awareness in its lesson plans. "Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, bleand, and segment the sounds into spoken and written words." Studies have shown that this awareness is one key to active reading. For the first week we will be working on segmenting the sounds b, m, and p.


Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing and implementing educational interventions.

Mrs. Pellin's Post
September 8th to September 11th

We have finished administering the aimsweb test to the children in kindergarten, first, and second grade. We will now work on placing the children in their reading groups. This week we will also continue to work on the RTI schedules and decide which reading interventions will be used for each group. We are still preparing for the beginning of the RTI program which will start Monday, September 14th for the first and second grade students and Wednesday, September 23rd for the kindergarten students at Elizabeth Ide. Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedues that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and instruction for school teams in designing and implementing educational interventions.