Heggerty Phonemic Awareness is a 35-week curriculum of daily phonemic awareness lesson plans.
Coming in July 2023, the new and comprehensive Foundational Skills programme, Bridge to Reading.
New 2022 Phonemic Awareness Curriculum books for Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten and Primary levels. These can be viewed HERE
Developed on a systematic scope and sequence of skills, each level focuses on eight phonemic awareness skills, along with two additional activities to develop letter and sound recognition, and language awareness. The lessons are designed to deliver tier 1 phonemic awareness instruction in a whole group setting and only take 10-12 minutes. For students in need of extra support, portions of lesson could be used in a small group and serve as a “second dose” of phonemic awareness instruction.
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Pre-Kindergarten
Comparison to 2022 version can be viewed HERE
The pre-kindergarten curriculum in English (purple book) uses nursery rhymes to introduce 3-4 year old students to language play.
The lessons include the same ten daily phonemic awareness skills as the kindergarten and primary versions. By the end of preschool your students will begin to build a repertoire of classic nursery rhymes as they learn to enjoy language play.
The revised 2020 Edition of the English Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum includes increased complexity of words and tasks for multiple skills, a reorganisation of the sequencing of skills within the 35 weeks, a reordering of lesson sequencing to allow for an easier transition into phonics instruction, and refined teacher modelling and support instructions.
Early Pre-Kindergarten Phonological Awareness
This is now available!
There is no update for this book in 2022.
Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Early Pre-Kindergarten lessons can be taught alongside your current literacy curriculum and are easily integrated into half-day or full-day preschool programs. When lessons are taught consistently each day with explicit teacher modeling and scaffolded support, students learn to play with language and hear the sounds in spoken words.
Overview: 35-weeks of lessons with 3 days per week of instruction, 5-7 components in each lesson
Grade level: 3 & 4 year old preschool classrooms
Format: Whole group instruction
Lesson length: 6-8 minutes
The Early Pre-K Phonological Awareness curriculum is meant for learners in 3- and 4-year-old classrooms, and the Early Learning and Development standards across all states were used to plan the lessons for instruction. While the standards and expectations differ from state to state, the Early Pre-K curriculum will teach 5 phonological awareness skills. The skills of rhyme, initial phoneme isolation, and blending are introduced at the beginning of instruction. Segmenting words and Final Phoneme Isolation are introduced in later weeks of instruction.
5 Phonological Awareness Skills
- Rhyme repetition, recognition, and production
- Initial Phoneme Isolation, including listening for a focus sound, alliteration and generating words that begin in a specific sound
- Blending words, syllables, body-coda, and onset-rime (Note: we do not blend at the phoneme level like we do in the current PreK curriculum)
- Segmenting into words, syllables, and onset-rime (begins in week 7; we do not segment into phonemes like we do in the current PreK curriculum)
- Final Phoneme Isolation (introduced in Weeks 24-35)
2 Early Literacy Skills
- Alphabet Knowledge
- Language Awareness: Nursery Rhymes and sentences
The lessons include explicit language to teach the skills and provide directions for each activity. Teacher modeling and support is included within the lessons, along with hand motions.
The beginning weeks of instruction provide teachers with lessons for “Setting the Stage” to help students learn about listening for sounds and developing an understanding of the language play activities .
Kindergarten
Comparison to 2022 version can be viewed HERE
The kindergarten curriculum in English (blue book) spends more time on each skill, and is used for those aged 5-6.
This curriculum covers all consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, and rime patterns, with long vowel words being introduced in the later weeks of this curriculum. By comparison, the yellow book also goes further into long vowels and introduces R-controlled vowels, special vowel sounds, and multisyllabic words.
The revised 2020 Edition of the English Kindergarten Curriculum includes increased complexity of words and tasks for multiple skills, a reorganisation of the sequencing of skills within the 35 weeks, a reordering of lesson sequencing to allow for an easier transition into phonics instruction, and refined teacher modelling and support instructions.
Alphabet Cards
This card pack includes 35 beautifully illustrated letter sound cards for teachers to use with a whole or small group when teaching the Letter Naming/Alphabet Knowledge activities during a Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lesson. This card pack matches the activities listed in the English Pre-K, Kindergarten, and Primary curricula.
The card pack includes:
- Letter sound cards for all 26 letters of the alphabet
- Letter sound card with fancy a and fancy g for print recognition
- Letter sounds cards with pictures for both the short and long vowel sounds, and the hard and soft sounds of c and g
Primary Extension Curriculum NOW IN PRINT VERSION
Now Available!
The Primary Extension curriculum provides systematic and explicit instruction in five basic and advanced phonemic awareness skills for older learners, and can be used for whole class , tier 1 instruction.
Who is this for?
The 12-weeks of daily lessons can be used as an oral warm-up to your phonics and reading instruction in year 4-6 classrooms.
Lesson format:
- This curriculum includes 12 weeks of daily instruction, with 60 lessons total.
- Each lesson includes a skill focus and explicit language for instruction.
- Lessons are short and fast-paced, working with 6 words for each skill; 5-7 minutes in length.
- Instructional focus is on 5 basic and advanced phonemic awareness skills:
1. Blending phonemes into spoken words
2. Segmenting words into phonemes
3. Adding phonemes
4. Deleting phonemes
5. Substituting phonemes
6. Reversals (week 12)
7. Phoneme/Grapheme connections
Primary
Comparison to 2022 version can be viewed HERE
The primary curriculum in English (yellow book) is typically used for those aged 7 and up.
It can also be used with individual students or small groups in higher grades for remedial work on specific skills.
The revised 2020 Edition of the English Primary Curriculum includes increased complexity of words and tasks for multiple skills, a reorganization of the sequencing of skills within the 35 weeks, a reordering of lesson sequencing to allow for an easier transition into phonics instruction, and refined teacher modelling and support instructions.
Daily lessons work well with whole class teaching, small group,( tier two) instruction, as well as one to one, (tier 3) instruction.
Blend and Digraph Cards
This card pack includes 34 beautifully illustrated letter sound cards for teachers to use with a whole or small group when teaching the Letter Naming or Alphabet Knowledge activity with Consonant Blends and Digraphs. This complete set of cards aligns to the activities included in the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Primary curriculum beginning in Week 8, and the Kindergarten curriculum in Weeks 23-35 (advanced vowel cards do not need to be used in Kindergarten).
This card pack includes:
- 21 Consonant Blends: l-blends, r-blends, s-blends, tw
- 4 Consonant Digraphs
- 8 Vowel Digraphs
- y as a vowel
Bridge the Gap Intervention programme
This book is currently in stock. The information is from the Heggerty website.
Bridge the Gap is a series of systematic phonemic awareness intervention lessons for students in 2nd grade and above. The lessons can be used in small groups or with individual students who struggle to decode words automatically.
Phonemic awareness, especially when working with older learners, is something that is not often part of classroom instruction or intervention. Yet, it is often the missing piece for students who struggle to decode and encode words.
The lessons in Bridge the Gap were written to provide teachers, Reading Specialists, and interventionists with a simplified curriculum for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness with targeted instruction, based on student needs.
Curriculum structure:
- Part 1: Phoneme Isolation
Isolating initial, final and medial phonemes
- Part 2: Blending and Segmenting
Blending syllables and phonemes into words
Segmenting words into syllables and phonemes
- Part 3: Phoneme Manipulation
Adding phonemes
Deleting phonemes
Substituting phonemes
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