This structured literacy course focuses on building foundational literacy skills, including phonemic awareness, letter-sound correspondence, sight word recognition, and much, much more.

With this highly structured course, caregivers can feel confident in supporting their child's reading and spelling development.

Don't miss this opportunity to empower yourself with the correct knowledge, techniques and strategies needed to help your child succeed in reading and writing.

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Training Course

$110.00

The Phase 2 Training Course includes the following:

8 videos with over 50 minutes of training that covers what you need to know to teach your child at this level (mp4)

The Phase 2a and 2b workbooks for your learner (PDF, ready to print)

The Phase 2a and 2b tutor's manual, containing all the word lists and transcription sentences (PDF) and clickable links to all the decodable readers

The scope and sequence of the whole programme (PDF)

A page of links to all the resources I use (PDF & clickable)

My sky, grass, ground paper for handwriting practice (PDF, ready to print)
This phase includes:

Most letter sounds

Introduction to Syllable types

Kitty Cat Rule

Short Vowel? Long Spelling of /k/ Rule

Silent-e Rule (#1 of 4)

FLOSS Rule

Nouns and Verbs

Adding -s

Counting Syllables

My carefully designed course follows a scope & sequence that is critical to the building of knowledge step-by-step. At no point, will your child be provided with spelling words or readers without the knowledge to spell and read those words.
A structured literacy programme introduces language sounds one at a time in an appropriate order.

Learners are taught sound-to-letter combinations. For example, the spelling 'ai' sounds like /ai/ (as in 'rain'). Not only can we read the word 'rain' now, but we can spell it too by writing down the spellings for each sound - /r/ /ai/ /n/. The programme readers only use words with those sound-letter combination pairings that have already been taught and are thus ‘decodable’ by the learner.

At the same time, individual ‘sight words’ are introduced. Sight words (also called ‘tricky words’, 'irregular spellings' and ‘heart words’) are those that do not abide by the usual rules of English and, therefore, need to be learned by ‘sight’/’heart’ or are ‘tricky’.

This method means the learner can confidently read every word of their book by applying the sound-letter combination rules. Additionally, learners do not use inappropriate strategies (like guessing at words or using picture clues) to help them read - they can actually read the words on the page (all sounds, from left to right). Learners are often surprised they don't need to 'remember' every word - now you can 'decode' any word left-to-right whether or not you have seen it before. Magic!

This approach means learning to read is viable for all learners regardless of whether they are strong readers, poor readers or have a disability, like dyslexia. I've had the privilege of watching many children take control of their learning via this approach and experience the joy of being able to read for the first time. it's priceless.

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Training Course

What you will receive

Scope of this course

What is a Structured Literacy Approach?