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What is heggerty?

Heggerty is designed to supplement our existing literacy curriculum, the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Pre-Kindergarten lessons easily integrate into our half-day and full-day program. Lessons are taught consistently each day with explicit teacher modeling and scaffolded support, where teachers see improvement in students’ reading, spelling, and writing, as the students learn to hear the sounds in words.
 
The 10 components included in each Heggerty Pre-Kindergarten lesson:
  • 8 phonemic awareness skills
  • 1 letter name and letter sound recognition activity
  • 1 language awareness activity using nursery rhymes
 
Daily lessons provide practice and exposure with 8 phonemic awareness skills:
  • Rhyme
  • Onset Fluency
  • Phoneme Isolation (initial, final, and medial)
  • Blend words, syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes
  • Segment words, syllables, onset-rime, and phonemes
  • Add words, syllables, and initial phonemes
  • Delete words, syllables, and initial phonemes
  • Substitute initial phonemes (Weeks 19-35 only)