LITERACY (Pre-K through 2nd grade)

Literacy Class

This class focuses on building literacy skills and strategies for emerging and beginning readers. It is a highly interactive class that will be taught using many different modalities – movement, chanting, singing, hands-on activities, etc. – to build the foundational skills students need to become star readers. Content will be adapted to fit the student’s age, grade-level, and specific needs. This class can be taught one-on-one or in pods of 2-4 students in similar age and skill range. Below are the skills that will be focused on depending on student age and needs.

Focus for Emergent Readers: Phonics-heavy activities to build phonological awareness, letter-recognition, letter-sound correspondence, sight word recognition, concepts of print (understanding elements of texts such as front/back cover, title, author/illustrator, matching speech to print), writing sounds and CVC words, simple sentences and stories, and reading emergent readers.

Focus for Beginning Readers: Strengthening reading and writing fluency, automatic word recognition, long and short vowel sounds, decoding (using knowledge of letter-sound relationships to read unfamiliar words) and encoding words (using knowledge of letter-sound relationships to write unfamiliar words), reading comprehension, writing, and continued phonics practice.

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Our Coach Joanna

Joanna is a NY State dual-certified educator specializing in Early Childhood and Special Education. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Rutgers University and her Master’s degree in Early Childhood and Special Education from NYU Steinhardt. 

Joanna has been working with students in general and special education settings for three years, most recently teaching kindergarten in NYC public schools. Her lessons are student-centered, using both assessment data and students’ personal interests to form targeted lessons that are relevant and engaging. Joanna believes that students learn best through exploration and experience and therefore creates learning experiences that are multimodal and interactive, utilizing hands-on and movement-based activities as often as possible. 

Joanna particularly enjoys helping students in the area of literacy – not only improving their literacy skills, but finding the joy in reading independently. She has a strong belief that phonemic and phonological awareness are the foundation to early literacy and has provided phonics intervention to students from grades K-2.