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Empower Your Child to Read!
Rating: 4.8 out of 5(9 ratings)
58 students

Empower Your Child to Read!

Get Your Child to Read SUCCESSFULLY
Created byMelody Johnson
Last updated 7/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Recognize and recall consonants in explicit instruction
  • Recognize and recall short and long vowels in explicit instruction
  • Blend consonants with vowels to create basic CVC words
  • Use various phonological and phonemic strategies to help support recognizing and recall letters and sounds
  • Very basic reading comprehension skill tips for kindergarten

Course content

15 sections115 lectures4h 15m total length
  • Welcome!0:35

    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

  • Introduction3:47


    • 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.

  • About Me2:18

    Here is a short video about my educational background.

Requirements

  • None

Description

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

Who this course is for:

  • Beginning readers
  • children 3 to 6 years of age
  • Children that require additional practice in individual letter sounds and letter recognition
  • Children in preschool
  • Children entering pre-kindergarten
  • Children currently attending pre-kindergarten
  • Children entering kindergarten
  • Children currently attending kindergarten
  • First graders who need additional support
  • Children that are English Language Learners
  • Children that need RTI - Response to Intervention
  • Children exiting kindergarten not yet familiar with letter recognition and sound
  • **This is NOT for students that can recognize letters and sounds and can read**
  • **This is NOT for students that already know advanced reading phonemic and / or phonological awareness strategies such as blends
  • **This is NOT for students that already know how to read fluently.**
  • **This is NOT for stduents that need to learn extensive reading comprehension skills***