
Hello and welcome to Empower Your Child to Read!
My name is Melody Johnson and I will be your instructor for this course! If you have any questions during the course, simply click on the Q & A tab below and create a question or simply send me a message. Again, thank you for choosing me as your instructor!
Melody
About me
Overview of content your child will learn in this course
Overview of Interactive activities shown to your child
Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness
How I will teach your child (DONT SKIP THIS PART)
Quizzes I will give YOU
Quizzes I will give YOUR child
Reading Facts
How content is differentiated for your child
How to use the materials with this course (DONT SKIP THIS PART)
How to prepare before lessons with your child
If you want to fast track and get straight to the lessons go to the following:
3:40 - Learn how I will teach your child
4:55 - How to use the materials before a lesson
If you already know about Phonological Awareness and have background information about literacy, feel free to skip this section and go straight to Lecture 3 Resources:
Print materials you need from Section 3 - Resources and from individual sections.
Here is a short video about my educational background.
Just a briefing on three things to do before beginning your lessons with your child! I have also included a PDF file of the three tips suggested before starting any learning process.
Here is a quick suggested grade leveled guide on how to use the course.
Quick tip for you on how to have your child "Air Write" along with me!
Need to start these lessons quickly? Here is a quick method on how to use the lessons immediately.
This is a brief video that discusses the "how to use the resources" section below.
In this section, you will find ALL of the resources I have created for you and your child. Each material also has it’s own section in the next lecture. but you have two places to access materials at any time through out the course. Remember to only print what you need ahead of time. This is so you save time and ink from your printer. This is also to give your child additional exposure to the letters they encounter!
Many of the documents included are in a PDF format. Sorry, I had to lock the document due to the clipart I included for legal reasons.
But, I did create the schedule for you and your child to be edited, so you can also change/rearrange things on the schedule to meet your child’s needs.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the alphabet recording sheet and an attachment of the recording sheet.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the alphabet tic-tac-toe directions!
Here is an instruction video on how to use the blending game and the printable blending activity.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the sight word card sets and the printable sight word cards set.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the magic board and the printable magic boards.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the letter matching games set and the letter matching games printable.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the rainbow write activity and the rainbow write activity printable.
Here is an instruction video on how to use the trace and write activity cards and the printable.
Here are the lyrics to the alphabet videos that I posted to the consonants section.
A brief video on why you should read daily with your child.
Just a brief talk about
Phonemic awareness and phonological awareness
Is teaching reading done a specific way
Why use multiple resources
Quick reading facts
How your child processes reading
Why it can be challenging
Differentiation
In this lecture, you will find the alphabet recording sheet to help you keep track of your child's letters and letter sounds. This is the same recording sheet from the resources section.
You have the flexibility to teach your child the traditional way (In alphabet order) or you can mix up the order of letters and include a mix of vowels and consonants.
Here is the same letter song lyrics posted from the resources section.
Uppercase B
Lowercase b
Uppercase C
Lowercase c
Uppercase D
Lowercase d
Uppercase F
Lowercase f
Uppercase G
Lowercase g
Uppercase H
Lowercase h
Uppercase J
Lowercase j
Uppercase K
Lowercase k
Uppercase L
Lowercase l
Uppercase M
Lowercase m
Uppercase N
Lowercase n
Uppercase P
Lowercase p
Uppercase Q
Lowercase q
Uppercase R
Lowercase r
Uppercase S
Lowercase s
Uppercase T
Lowercase t
Uppercase V
Lowercase v
Uppercase W
Lowercase w
Uppercase X
Lowercase x
Uppercase Y
To help support younger learners, we did not teach the letter "Y" as a vowel in this course. That lesson will be in the second course.
Lowercase y
To help support younger learners, we did not teach the letter "y" as a vowel in this course. That lesson will be in the second course.
Uppercase Z
Lowercase Z
In this section, you can sit with your child for the short vowel lesson!
In this section, you can sit with your child for the long vowel lesson!
Uppercase A Short A Sound
Uppercase A Long a Sound
Lowercase a - Short a sound
Lowercase a - Long a Sound
Uppercase E - Short E Sound
Uppercase E- Long E Sound
Lowercase e - Short e sound
Lowercase e - Long e sound
Uppercase i Short i Sound
Uppercase i - Long i sound
Lowercase i -Short i Sound
Lowercase i -long i sound
Uppercase O - Short o sound
Uppercase O Long O Sound
Lowercase o - short o sound
Lowercase O - Long O Sound
Uppercase U Short U Sound
Uppercase U Long U Sound
Lowercase u - Short U Sound
Lowercase U Long U Sound
Lesson on an explanation of open and closed syllables.
Here is a lesson you and your child can listen to for words in complete sentences!
You can watch this video along with your child!
Here is a lesson describing with examples of how to teach syllables.
You and your child can both watch this syllables lesson!
In this lesson, I will be describing to you what is onset and rime, which is simply the beginning and end of a word.
You can watch this video with your child!
An introduction to the letter isolation lesson. Only parents / caretakers need to watch this video.
Both caretakers and children can watch this video.
This video is an introduction about the blending lesson video. Parents / caretakers only can watch this video.
Looking for a way to teach your child to read? Overwhelmed with finding the right reading strategies on the internet? Having a hard time choosing the "just right" activity for your child? Need something simple that you can teach immediately with results??
Studies have shown that reading is one of the most complex skills that a brain can learn. I want to make learning fun for your child and ELIMINATE frustration by creating the right activity JUST FOR YOU!
This is why this course was designed for you and your child!!!
This course will help you if you want to:
Inspire and encourage your child to read from ages 3-7
Recognize and recall consonant letters
Recognize and recall consonant sounds
Recognize and recall vowel letters
Recognize and recall vowel sounds
Offer basic handwriting tips with and WITHOUT writing tools!
Use a variety of fun and engaging activities that your child will LOVE!!
Teach the basics of phonological and phonemic Awareness with EASE
(You watch, I teach!)
Use CRY FREE activities to get your child to learn how to read!
**If your child is learning how to read English as a second language, I have incorporated some videos to help your child with techniques within my own videos!**
Requirements:
A printer (To print out activities you will do with your child)
Ink (for your printer)
Paper (to print out the paper for your activities)
Pencil
**Will mention household items you can use with your child for their lessons within the course**
Optional Items:
Dry erase markers
Pencils / Erasers
Colored Pencils
Crayons
Plastic Sheet Protectors
Laminating paper
Sticky Notes
Straws
Plastic Spoons
Colored Chalk
Pipe Cleaners
Dice