Heggerty Chapter 2

A Heggerty Kindergarten lesson includes:

• Both phonological awareness and phonics instruction

• Phonological awareness skills and early literacy skills

• Phonological awareness and vocabulary instruction

The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Kindergarten lessons should take ***minutes of your instructional time:

• 20 minutes

• 10 - 12 minutes

• 30 minutes

• 3 - 5 minutes

The following resources are embedded in the Heggerty manual to support implementation:

• QR Codes linked to hand motion, lesson demonstrations, teacher support videos.

• Explicit teacher language and skill focus.

• Overview pages to provide background and support for shifts in the lessons.

• All of the above.

When defining rhyme for students, teachers can say

• Rhyming words have the same first sound.

• Rhyming words have the same sound at the end.

• Rhyming words have the same middle and final sounds.

The initial phoneme or sound in a word is

• The first sound we hear in a spoken word.

• The first letter we see in a word.

• The vowel sound we hear in a spoken word.

• The last sound we hear in a spoken word.

The skills of Rhyme and Initial Phoneme Isolation are included in the lessons for all 24 weeks.

• True

• False