Primary Extension Curriculum

12 weeks of daily phonemic awareness lessons to help 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students become phonemically proficient.

A short-term curriculum,
with long-term impact

The frequent disruptions to instruction over the past few years mean many students are left struggling with foundation reading skills, extending well beyond kindergarten and first grade.

The Heggerty Primary Extension Curriculum provides explicit instruction in both basic and advanced phonemic awareness skills. Lessons are designed for whole group instruction, with a unison response.

Lesson format:

  • 60 lessons over 12 weeks of daily instruction
  • Now available in print or digitally within myHeggerty
  • Each lesson includes a skill focus and explicit language for instruction
  • Lessons are short and fast-paced, working with 6 words for each skill; 5-7 minutes in length
  • NEW! Phoneme-Grapheme Connections
  • Instruction focuses on 5 phonemic awareness skills, along with phoneme-grapheme connections:

1. Blending phonemes into spoken words

2. Segmenting words into phonemes

3. Adding phonemes

4. Deleting phonemes

5. Substituting phonemes

6. Reversals (optional, week 12)

7. Phoneme-grapheme connection

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EFFICIENT

Real results in less than 15 minutes a day. In fact, ​​94% of administrators surveyed have seen growth using the Heggerty curriculum in their school or district. 

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DESCRIPTIVE

Real results in less than 15 minutes a day. In fact, ​​94% of administrators surveyed have seen growth using the Heggerty curriculum in their school or district. 

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SUPPORTIVE

QR codes transport all teachers directly to lesson videos and other helpful resources to inform daily lessons and support fidelity implementation.

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RESEARCH-BASED

Everything Heggerty develops is grounded in the latest science on how children learn to read and continuously evolving to keep pace with new findings.

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FUN

The Heggerty curriculum is fun and engaging for both teachers AND students. That’s why 95% of educators surveyed would recommend it to a friend or colleague.

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Bundle and Save

Save up to $70 when you bundle your subscription to myHeggerty with our print curriculum and classroom resources.

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Bridge the Gap

Intervention Lessons for 2nd Grade and Up

Some students may need more than 12 weeks of explicit phonemic awareness instruction to rebuild their reading skill set. That’s where Bridge the Gap comes in. A series of systematic intervention lessons, Bridge the Gap helps educators identify areas for targeted instruction, based on student needs. 

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myHeggerty

Digital curriculum, videos, and so much more!

Our digital hub, myHeggerty provides teachers with the ongoing support and resources they need to teach the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness curriculum with fidelity, including digital curriculum, assessments, lesson videos, and on-demand professional development for all levels and languages we offer. 

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Professional Development

We're proud to support teachers with world-class professional development in-person, online, and on-demand. Whether you have 1 teacher or 10,000, we have something just for you.