Phonological & Phonemic Awareness Instruction - Teaching children to become phonologically aware is a prerequisite for studying phonics and leads to reading and spelling proficiency. Your child will learn how to notice, think about and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words. This leads to leads to reading and spelling proficiency. Your child will become phonemically aware by listening for sounds, rhyming, counting words in sentences, word clapping and by identifying missing words.

Systematic Phonic Instruction - Our students learn that systematic and predictable relationships exist between written letters and spoken sounds. Scientific research & guidelines state that children should be taught oral segmentation, oral blending, alliteration and phonemic manipulation skills. This enables children to decode unfamiliar words and automatically recognise familiar words. We will teach your child sound / symbol relationships in a clearly defined sequence including: consonants, blends, segmenting, short and long vowels, consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs and variant sound / symbol relationships.