Date:     Tuesday 9 May 2023
Time:     7 - 8 pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target Audience: This webinar is suitable for any primary teachers or principals who are considering adopting either Heggerty or UFLI Foundations in their school in the coming academic year. 

This webinar will provide a brief overview of the Heggerty phonemic Awareness programme and UFLI Foundations phonics programme.  A sample lesson for each programme will be demonstrated. 

Heggerty is a Phonemic Awareness programme that comes in 3 levels: Pre-K, Kindergarten and Primary (Junior Infants, Senior Infants and First Class).  Each level consists of daily lessons for the whole year, focusing on phonemic awareness skills.  Each lesson takes approximately 10 minutes.

UFLI Foundations is suitable for Junior Infants to 2^nd Class.  It contains 128 units, with easy-to-follow lesson plans. Lessons take approximately 30 minutes, each consisting of systematic review and explicit teaching and practice of new concepts.  Free companion lessons resources are available online, including powerpoint presentations, games and decodable texts.

Bio of Presenter: Deirdre O Toole

Deirdre O’Toole is a Primary School Teacher and is currently teaching First Class.  She is passionate about early literacy, child-led play and making the classroom a fun place for the children to learn.  Deirdre runs the Instagram page ‘Playful Classroom’.  Deirdre has no affiliation with either Heggerty or UFLI.