Heggerty Phonemic
Awareness and UFLI Foundations (Phonics)
November 14th (3pm)
Facilitator: Deirdre O Toole - Playful Classroom
This webinar will provide a
brief overview of the Heggerty phonemic Awareness programme and UFLI
Foundations phonics programme. A sample lesson for each programme will be
demonstrated.
Heggerty
is a Phonemic Awareness programme that comes in 3 levels: Pre-K, Kindergarten
and Primary (Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class). Each level
consists of daily lessons for the whole year, focusing on phonemic awareness
skills. Each lesson takes approximately 10 minutes.
UFLI
Foundations is suitable for Junior Infants to 2nd Class.
It contains 128 units, with easy-to-follow lesson plans. Lessons take
approximately 30 minutes, each consisting of systematic review and explicit
teaching and practice of new concepts. Free companion lessons resources
are available online, including powerpoint presentations, games and decodable
texts.
Bio of
Presenter: Deirdre O Toole
Deirdre
O’Toole is a Primary School Teacher and is currently teaching First
Class. She is passionate about early literacy, child-led play and making
the classroom a fun place for the children to learn. Deirdre runs the
Instagram page ‘Playful Classroom’. Deirdre has no affiliation with
either Heggerty or UFLI.