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.