Introducing
Explicit phonemic awareness and phonics instruction come together in our new K-2 foundational skills curriculum!
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides everything you need to teach daily phonemic awareness lessons in 12 minutes or less. Fast, effective and fun, it's no wonder that teachers worldwide have loved the Heggerty approach for nearly 20 years.
Easy to Implement
Lessons are easy to follow, require minimal prep time, and directly connect teachers to digital resources and videos helping them to implement the curriculum with fidelity.
Fast Paced and Engaging
The 8-12 minute daily lessons are the perfect combination of focus and fun that will have your students begging for more “Heggerty time!”
Cost Effective
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We serve over 7,250 districts across the U.S.
Case Study: Pentucket Regional School District
Advancing Literacy Scores By Connecting Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
With literacy scores in decline nationwide, Pentucket Regional School District beat the odds to increase elementary reading scores by implementing Heggerty district-wide and enhancing teacher knowledge of the Science of Reading.
⭐ Skill Highlight: (Phoneme Isolation) Isolating Final Sounds is a basic phonemic awareness skill & can be more challenging than isolating the onset of a word.
💪 We use the punch-it-out hand motion to help students isolate that final sound.
✔️ As the teacher, you are going to use your left arm because students will see that as your right and we want students to see these sounds moving from left to right, the same way they are going to map print.
🎥 Watch our very own, Mrs. Bottari model how to use this punch-it-out motion to isolate the final sound in a word.
🔗 For the full skill tutorial video, head to the Heggerty YouTube channel, using the link in our bio.
⭐ It's time for another #heggertytime share, this week we are excited to share Ms. Garcia's 1st-grade class from Rancho Verde Elementary school in Texas.
📙 These 1st graders are working on the skill- Phoneme Isolation: Final Sounds, "We are listening for the last sound we hear in a word."
💪 Ms. Garcia's 1st graders will listen to a word and isolate the last sound they hear, using the "punch it out" hand motion, sliding their right arm across the body when saying the first part of the word, and punching straight up in the air when saying the final sound
✔️ Teacher Tip: To reinforce the understanding of isolating the last sound in a word, use Elkonin boxes with colored chips to offer a visual for support for phoneme location
🔗 Find links for sample lessons, skill tutorial videos & a free Elkonin Box template in the link in our bio.
📒Heggerty in the classroom: Ms. Baum leads her class in our Primary curriculum, they are working on deleting initial phonemes. @oneccps @reamselementary
⭐ Skill: Deleting Initial Phonemes- “We can take away the first sound from a word and say what is left.”
🙌 Hand Motion: Ms. Baum is modeling our deleting hand motion, holding two open palms out in front of her, her right hand is the initial sound, left hand is the rest of the word. Watch as she pulls away her right hand as the class deletes the first sound, and shows what part remains with her left hand.
🤩 Her students are engaged, her pacing is fast & fun and they are on their way to becoming phonemic awareness all stars, keep up the great work!
Ready to try Heggerty in your classroom? Visit www.heggerty.org to download sample lesson plans!
📒Heggerty in the Classroom: (Pt. 2) Watch the amazing Mr. Williams and his students practice deleting initial phonemes during their #heggertytime.
⭐️Skill Focus: Deleting Initial Phonemes- “We can delete a sound from the beginning of a word and say what is left.”
🖐Heggerty Hand Motion: Notice Mr. Williams’s hand motions, he holds out both of his hands with open palms. The right hand represents the initial phoneme and the left hand represents the rime. He removes the right hand to delete the initial phoneme and shows what is left with his left hand.
😊 Student Engagement: A job well done to this class of Heggerty all-stars, they know the routines & procedures for #heggertytime & you can’t miss the smiles on their faces! Way to go Mr. Williams class 👏
🔗Click the link in our bio to download a free lesson sample!
It's time for another #heggertytime share- this week's share comes from Twitter, Ms. Amy Long @amybytheton shares: "It was a terrific 🐯 Tuesday at the Tell! ...🥇 Heggerty hand motions were on point ✅, modeling sounds & mouth formation, today was a good day!"
🔍 We spot Heggerty ABC cards & our letter name routine in action
🖐️ Can you tell which skill Mr. Williams's class is working on during #Heggertytime? If you guessed "phoneme isolation: final sounds" you are correct! Look at that "punch it out" motion in action!
⭐ Use the link in our bio to grab your own set of ABC cards & download a free lesson sample!
📒Heggerty in the Classroom: Watch the amazing Mr. Williams and his students practice deleting final syllables during their #heggertytime.
⭐️Skill Focus: Deleting Final Syllables- "We can delete a syllable from the end of a word and say what is left."
🔗Click the link in our bio to download a free lesson sample!
⭐ Time for another #heggertytime share, this week we are spotlighting Kindergarten teachers in Roswell, GA: "Heggerty is starting strong in K! These teachers know how to keep the pace up & keep their students engaged!" We can't wait to continue to watch Heggerty come to life in your classrooms.
🔍 Can you identify which skills these amazing Kindergarten teachers are working on with their students?
1️⃣ Phoneme Isolation: Final Sounds- "We are listening for the last sound we hear in a word. I will say a word; say the word back to me and punch up the last sound you hear." (ex) miss..... s: miss/s/
2️⃣ Blending Words: "When we blend, we put two small words together to make a big word." (ex) snow-fall, snowfall
🔗 Click the link in our bio to download FREE lesson plans
🎬 Heggerty in ACTION: While there are many things we love about our curriculum, the fact that it's QUICK, easy to implement, fun & effective top the list!
💙 Heggerty inside the classroom, outside of the classroom, or even in the hallway- you can have fun with phonemic awareness during any part of your day! Take a look at how Ms. Walden from Autumn Creek Elementary in Humble, TX is teaching a kinder Heggerty lesson while her class was waiting for their library special.
⭐ Highlighted Skill: Language Awareness- Listen to hear Ms. Walden & her class say the sentence aloud, using their fingers to count the words they hear. "Do you like ice cream?" There are 5 words! Excellent job Kinder students 👏
Whether it's your first year implementing Heggerty, or your tenth year, we have resources ready to support you in your classroom this school year!
⭐ Free Curriculum Resources: Explore our collection of free classroom resources & download a copy of our hand motion guide, a quick reference for each phonemic awareness skill, as well as the hand motions used within each Heggerty lesson.
⭐ Heggerty Blog: Visit our blog & read popular posts, including 30 Science of Reading Resources, Why Make the Switch? Transitioning from Word Walls to Sound Walls & What are Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness?
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🔗 You can find a link to each of these resources in stories now, as well as the link in our bio.
Back to School with HEGGERTY 📚 Setting expectations, routines, and procedures for #heggertytime will set your students up for success this school year! Notice how this teacher has her Heggerty curriculum guide on her lap, hand motions are in action & students are engaged on the rug- all signs of a great Heggerty lesson in action!
What procedures and expectations do you put in place for #heggertytime during your first week of instruction? Share in the comments below ⬇️
⭐ Don't forget to tag @heggertypa and use our hashtag #heggertytime when sharing Heggerty in your classroom!
True progress in just 8-12 minutes a day
Each level of the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides up to 35 weeks of daily lessons, focusing on eight phonemic awareness skills, along with two additional activities to develop letter and sound recognition, and language awareness. Lessons are designed for a classroom setting, and only take 8-12 minutes.
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Phonemic Awareness is not Phonics
Phonemic Awareness
- The instructional focus is on the phonemes or sounds we hear in words.
- Lessons are an oral and auditory warm-up to phonics instruction.
- Students isolate, blend, segment, and manipulate sounds in spoken words.
Phonics
- The instructional focus is on the graphemes or letters that represent the sounds we hear in spoken words.
- Lessons are visual and auditory, matching phonemes to graphemes.
- Students apply their knowledge of phonemic awareness and phonics to decode and encode words in print.
Heggerty is the most structured and systematic curriculum that I’ve seen. Everyone is really excited about it. It’s fun to watch. The kids like it too.
District of Columbia Public Schools
Washington, D.C.
It's one of the most worthwhile purchases the district has ever made. Everyone is happy with it -- it's 100%! We've done a lot of site tours to see how the implementation is going, and good anecdotal stories just keep coming from the instructors. I honestly haven't heard anything negative.
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Alaska
When you look for programs out there, there are hundreds of phonics programs but very few phonemic awareness programs that take students from the simplest to advanced forms. Heggerty has come out with a comprehensive and systematic way to do that. It follows an excellent scope and sequence. It develops all of the skills they need to know. No one does it as systematically as Heggerty.
School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
The Heggerty curriculum is consistent, repetitive, and presents the same skill in different ways. I've taken kids who were non-readers and after three to four months with the Heggerty program, they hear sounds and words and they segment and blend words which makes them better readers. It's the intermediary step between non-readers and readers.
Knox County School District
Tennessee, USA
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness program is brilliant. It requires very little preparation and the lessons are engaging, quick, fun, and effective. The results speak for themselves, with a majority of students showing improved outcomes in both reading and writing.
WHSS
Queensland, Australia
Dr. Heggerty's program is easy to implement and requires very little preparation. We have used this program for one year and have seen fabulous gains in our students’ ability to attempt unfamiliar words in their writing.
Wellers Hill State School
Queensland, Australia
I purchased ALL the flash cards and love them! P.S. I love the updated Kinder "Blue Book!" My students are doing great...even virtual! That says a lot!
Kindergarten Teacher
Clark County School District
Comprehensive, yet succinctly organized, logically arranged, and richly resourced. The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum is the best research-based program for foundational literacy I have ever seen. Its value for hard-of-hearing & students struggling with central auditory processing issue is clearly applicable.
School District of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
This curriculum has had a powerfully positive effect on student achievement in eastern Montana schools. Student early literacy assessment scores have improved greatly in the schools that have begun using this curriculum over the past 2-3 years.
RTL Support Specialist
Glendive, Montana
This is the best program I have EVER used! A few minutes a day and the results are mind blowing!
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Strong phonemic awareness is crucial to reading success! Heggerty lessons are quick, fun, and multisensory!
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I use this curriculum in my classroom almost every single day! It is incredible and it is the ONLY thing that makes sense about teaching reading! I am literally obsessed.
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Our kindergarten and first grade used it last year and now it is being used in second grade! It has made a huge difference!!
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We use your methods daily. The kids skills are improving, and we couldn't be more excited for them! Thank you for providing such an amazing program that is really worth the time and effort.
Reading Intervention Specialist
LakeVille Community School District