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How to Teach Reading&Spelling With 20MinutePhonemicTraining
Is your 3rd, 4th grade or older child struggling with reading or spelling? Learn how YOU can help them in this course.
Created byVickie Dinsmore
Last updated 4/2026
English
What you'll learn
- Be able to find out exactly why a child is not learning to read fluently or spell accurately.
- Be able individualize reading and spelling lessons for specific needs of an individual child.
- Use a step by step guide to transform a child's ability to 'lift words from the page' and spell words in daily writing.
- Use downloadable materials for each step and teach your child as you work through the course.
- Find out HOW to know WHICH phonemes, [sounds in words] your child does not process.
- Assess your child [or any students’] reading & writing for where there is a break-down holding back reading & spelling achievement.
- Learn basic information for all phonemes [sounds] used in English, a step by step walk through lessons addressing your child’s specific needs.
- See videos of multi-sensory activities to do with children when they get ‘stuck.’
- Includes: Reading activities to increase rate and accuracy [fluency] and spelling practice activities to increase accuracy.
- Learn phonic rules for spelling words and how to teach the phonic rules to improve spelling. Learn about the connection to video games.
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Course content
12 sections • 18 lectures • 5h 36m total length
Requirements
- Be able to read, write and spell.
- Be able to hear the differences between short vowel tones.
- Be able to speak speech sounds correctly.
- Have a basic understanding of phonic rules.
- Be able to open and use an excel spreadsheet because the analysis calculator is an excel file.
Description
How to Teach Reading & Spelling with 20-minute Phonemic Training uses speech sounds in words to teach children how words are built. If you homeschool, are an intervention specialist, a reading specialist, or tutor a child who needs to keep up with school expectations regarding reading and spelling. This course is for you.
Children with a history of middle ear fluid or infection or delayed speech development often have delayed reading and spelling skills later in school. Teaching them how to hear sounds in words by feeling and hearing the differences between them first and then matching the sounds to letters makes a massive difference in fluently decoding and accurately spelling the written word. After all, letters are PICTURES of sounds. Children understand the idea that pictures represent something else.
Some of what is presented will seem too easy if you are a professional. Still, the resources are practical, and the system is streamlined for children who need shorter lessons that keep them engaged.
Suppose you are a parent, and this is all new to you. In that case, the slower pace with step-by-step instruction will simplify the process of understanding.
The course is based on the publications "20 Minute Phonemic Training for Dyslexia, Auditory Processing and Spelling", "Reading Sound Strategies," and "Workbook 1 CVC Reading Sound Strategies," which are available on Amazon. Research supporting the methods in the course is listed in the publications.
Research supporting the methods in the course is listed in the publication and the website for the publication.
This course
Walks with you and your child/student as you work daily and week by week to improve your child's reading fluency and spelling skills in months.
It is a step-by-step individualized plan to identify specific student needs to improve reading fluency and spelling skills in authentic writing.
It is an easy way to plan and prepare lessons in less time.
A structured approach for delivering mini lessons to improve reading fluency/accuracy and spelling accuracy.
You have a record of your child's progress as you complete each lesson.
I have used the materials and strategies taught here with many children over the past 35 years. All of them made progress. Most reached grade level or near grade level expectations within one to two years, if not sooner. It is not unusual to see rapid change within three months when given three weekly lessons. The key is to be consistent about doing the lessons and staying with the lessons to the end.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone teaching a child in 2nd grade through high school who struggles to read fluently and spell accurately, including students with dyslexia.
- Reading Tutors and Intervention Specialists of children with dyslexia or children struggling to learn how to read fluently and spell accurately.
- Parents who are home schooling children with dyslexia or struggling to learn how to read fluently and spell accurately.
- Teachers of children with dyslexia or children struggling to learn how to read fluently and spell accurately.
- Example: Reading Tutors, Elementary teachers, Intervention Specialists, Speech Language Pathologists, Parents who Homeschool, ESPECIALLY in school districts with low reading proficiency scores.