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What is Phonics First® ?
RLAC’s nationally accredited Phonics First® is a dynamic and interactive professional development course that gives teachers the depth of knowledge and expertise to teach reading to beginning and struggling readers grades K-12. Based on Orton-Gillingham methodology, it is immediately applicable to a variety of learners in both classroom and small-group learning environments.
Phonics First® course participants learn the lesson elements necessary for delivering quality, multisensory, code-emphasis reading lessons for critical decoding and encoding skill development.
Phonics First® Includes the Critical Literacy Components of:
- Phonemic awareness
- Decoding and spelling
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
Phonics First® Uses Differentiated Instruction Techniques that are:
- Prescriptive
- Multisensory
- Phonics-based
- Systematic, structured and sequential
Phonics First® Participants Learn:
- Current reading research
- Rationale for multisensory instruction
- Stages of reading development
- Reading readiness
- Phonology
- Vowel intensives
- Five part lesson plan
- Three-part drill
- Multisensory spelling for phonetic and non-phonetic words
- Syllabication
- Oral Reading Strategies and comprehension integration
- Lesson Planning
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