Phonics First™ Professional Development

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