Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Mrs. Pellin's Post
November 9th to November 13th

This week we will be learning about words that have the short o sound in the beginning and middle of the word.

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 awareness skills.

7. Substituting Phonemes



  • Substituting the initial phonemes (sounds) in spoken words


  • Substituting the final phonemes (sounds) in spoken words


  • Substituting the medial phonemes (sounds) in spoken words
    Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures 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
November 2nd to November 6th
This week we will be learning about words that have the short i sound in the beginning and middle of the word.

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 awareness skills.

6. Segmenting


  • Segmenting sentence into separate words


  • Segmenting individual words


  • Segmenting syllables in spoken words


  • Segmenting onset and rime in spoken words


  • Segmenting phonemes in spoken words

Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures 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.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Mrs. Pellin's Post
October 26th to October 30th
This week we will work on segmenting the sound a.

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 awareness skills.

5. Identifying Final and Medial Phonemes
  • Isolating final phonemes (sounds) in spoken words
  • Isolating medial phonemes (sounds) in spoken words
  • Identifying same final phonemes (sounds) in a series of words
  • Identifying same medial phonemes (sounds) in a series of words
Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures 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.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Mrs. Pellin's Post
October 19th to October 23rd
This week we will work on segmenting the sounds 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 awareness skills.

4. Blending



  • Blending individual words into compound words

  • Blending syllables into spoken words

  • Blending onsets with rime into spoken words

  • Blending phonemes (sounds) into spoken words
Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures 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
October 12th to October 16th



This week we will work on segmenting the sounds c, w, j, and q.


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 awareness skills.

3. Identifying Onsets (beginning sounds)

  • Isolating onset phonemes (sounds) in spoken words
  • Identifying same onset phonemes (sounds) in a series of words
Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response To Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures 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.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Mrs. Pellin's Post
October 5th to October 9th

This week we will work on segmenting the sounds t,r,h,and x.

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.

2. Rhyming

  • Recognizing rhyming words
  • Repeating rhyming words out of a series of words
  • Isolating the non-rhyming word out of a series of words
  • Producing a rhyming word with a familiar word
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.