Designed to supplement your existing literacy curriculum, the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Primary lessons easily integrate into 1st and 2nd-grade classrooms. When lessons are taught consistently each day teachers see improvement in students’ reading, spelling, and writing, as the students learn to hear the sounds in words.

Intended audience: 1st and 2nd-grade classrooms (refer to page ii for 2nd-grade instruction or reference the FAQ guide)
Lesson structure: Whole group
Duration: 8-12 minutes
Intervention: Lessons can be used in small groups to provide intervention and support for 1st and 2nd-grade students who need additional support with targeted skills instruction

The Heggerty Primary Curriculum includes:
1. An intentional progression to focus on complex skills: 8 phonemic awareness skills in Weeks 1-9; 6 PA skills in Weeks 10-20; and 5 PA skills in Weeks 21-24
2. Opportunities to build Alphabet Knowledge & Phoneme-Grapheme Connection

Lessons provide daily opportunities to develop phoneme awareness and proficiency through:
1. Rhyme
2. Phoneme Isolation
3. Blending syllables and phonemes
4. Segmenting syllables and phonemes
5. Adding syllables and phonemes
6. Deleting syllables and phonemes
7. Substituting syllables and phonemes

Bringing explicit phonemic awareness instruction to your classroom is easier than ever thanks to:
1. QR codes directly link the weekly lesson page to videos and other supportive resources, enabling easy access to professional development and helping teachers to implement the curriculum with fidelity.
2. Explicit teacher language better enables teachers to support all students' development.
3. The new Skill Focus can be shared as an explanation for each skill or task when teaching the lessons.
4. Overview pages support teachers with changes and shifts that take place throughout the weekly lessons.
5. New opportunities for Phoneme/Grapheme connections.
6. A revised scope and sequence gets students working at the phoneme level sooner.
7. Optional weeks for review or intervention have been included for some skills after 24-weeks of Tier 1 instruction is provided.

myHeggerty offers a digital version of the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum. To review myHeggerty visit https://heggerty.org/my-account/ and use this login info: username: utreview1@gmail.com, password: utimc1!!