Phonics Rules for Kids | Homeschool Kindergarten Reading Curriculum, Teach a Child to Read, Online Reading Tutor
Do you worry that you won’t be able to teach your kiddo how to read? Are you overwhelmed by curriculum choice wonder which one is best? Do you wish you had an EXACT routine to follow for your child’s daily phonics instruction? I am so excited you’re here! It’s time to check the boxes for phonics instruction on your daily homeschool reading schedule. You’ll will get pro tips for teaching phonics skills so that your child can become a confident reader AND leave you feeling successful at the end of your homeschool days because you had an EXACT routine to follow! Hey, I’m Melanie. I am wife to Bill, mom to three hard-working teenagers, and have been teaching 4-7 year-old students to read for the last 10 years in K-2 classrooms. Reading God’s Word, the Bible, gives me hope and grounds me with peace in a world filled with chaos. As a beginning teacher, I taught kids to read using the wrong approach (old cueing system instead of phonics). Tired of teaching kids to guess what words they were reading by having them look at the beginning letter of a word and the accompanying picture, I knew there had to be a better way! Then, I discovered a sequential, step-by-step phonics-based approach to teaching kids to read. An instructional model that teaches kids to read simple to more complex texts, phonics skill, by phonics skill. An approach to teaching kids to read that I will forever use with beginning readers. And I’m ready to share it with you! If you are ready to finally find a simple, yet highly effective way to teach your child to read… Works in your homeschool schedule (while homeschooling kids with multiple learning styles). Boosts your confidence because you WHAT phonics skill to teach and HOW to teach it. Leaves you feeling successful because your child is reading with confidence. Then, subscribe to the podcast! You can find me: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
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Homeschool Coop Class Ideas for Elementary Reading:
From Kindergarten Letter Sounds to Sentences!
Are you a homeschool co-op teacher wondering HOW to get through your next class in one piece? Wondering how to help students with their hands up, needing your help, but feeling defeated because there's not time to help them all! Lean in, teachers, and get 5 sanity-saving h...
Why can't your child sit still for a reading lesson at home? You’re 10 minutes into phonics drills and your child who was focused, right there with you, is now looking up at the ceiling and swinging his legs against the chair. You know as a mom that his ability to learn phonics skills at this particular moment is just not happening!
Wondering HOW to get your child to sit still for reading activities at home? Meet Sarah Collins, an ...
What to do when your 10-year old can't read? It's tough to feel helpless to know how to help your child read when your daughter struggles to read grade-level texts. Even when you buy books that she loves. How can you help your child to read at home?
Aways go back to the basics. Start with a simple phonics checklist. Then check for knowledge of word chunks. Reading fluency - if your child is reading slow. If you've done your best to...
Are you homeschooling your 1st grader? Discover 6 vowel-syllables to teach your 1st grade reader at home. Your child need to know these vowel-syllables, so that she can read and spell words correctly.
The vowel types are: open syllables, closed syllables, r-controlled vowels, final stable syllable 'le' and long vowel syllables. Teach your 1st grade homeschooler these six vowel types, and put her on the path to becoming a confident...
Are you struggling to teach your kid to read? Is your child still struggling to memorize hundreds of sight words? It's time to ditch the overwhelm of pure sight word memorization! Instead, teach your child to decode each sound in whole words, so that she can read sentences more quickly and with greater fluency. When you teach your child phoneme-grapheme phonics relationships, such as 'ch' spell /ch/ and 'ur' spells /ur/, then she c...
Are you still printing off random alphabet worksheets 2 minutes before your child's phonics lesson at home? If you feel scattered, it's because you're not following a phonics scope and sequence for homeschool reading. A scope and sequence lists the phonics skills, typically by grade, and in which order to teach these letters and sounds (phonemes and graphemes), so that you can fast-track your child's reading success.
Regardless of...
Are you homeschooling a large Christian family? Meet Haydee Wenholz, a fun, energetic homeschool mom, who taught her 5 kids to read at home! Haydee focuses on building relationships with your children as being vital to making progress in your homeschool schedule. She also shares how she taught her 5 kids to read, and the importance of flexibility in your homeschool schedule.
She encourages homeschool moms to be patient, knowing eac...
Mom, are you wondering why your child is confused between the 'hard g' and the 'soft' g'? Why is the 'soft c' and 'soft g' in words so hard to remember? Why does the letter 'c' have two letter sounds anyway? Of course it's confusing. It's time to teach your 1st grade homeschooler basic phonics rules for 'soft c' and 'soft g', so that he can become a fluent reader who no longer gets stuck on words like 'city', 'cell', 'gem' and 'gir...
What is a digraph? Have you looked at your homeschool phonics curriculum and noticed the word 'digraph'? Maybe you've even see the word 'trigraph'? What are these phonics skills, and how can you teach these to your beginning reader?
Digraphs are sounds represented by 2 letters. Common consonant digraphs are 'sh', 'ch', 'th', 'ng', 'ph' and 'wh'. Vowel digraphs (vowel teams) work together to make one long vowel sound. When you teac...
Today, we welcome former teacher turned homeschool mom and online business owner, Christine Furman, to the podcast! Christine helps homeschool moms integrate play-based learning through her EduPlay curriculum. Check out Christine's podcast, Home Education with Ease!
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Wondering which phonics-based homeschool reading curriculum is best for Kindergarten and 1st grade? What should know about choosing your phonics curriculum to get your child reading with success?
If you want to place your child on the path to becoming a confident, successful reader, then choose your homeschool phonics curriculum with these daily lesson criteria:
- lessons are cumulative and review previously learned phonics sk...
Are you parenting a young reader with ADHD? Break down your reading lesson at home into smaller chunks of time. Ask your child to focus on one phonics skills at a time, then allow for a quick movement break. Then, teach the next phonics skill in the lesson. Then take a break. If your child needs to move, stop fighting this. Movement is healthy and allows your child's brain (and yours MOM) to reset before teaching your child to read...
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ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
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Frustrated with homeschool paper clutter taking over your home, leaving your homeschool days feeling chaotic? Switch to whiteboards! The goal for teaching your child to read isn't to have them do a bunch of random tracing pages anyway. Lead your child through phonics drill and skills. Teach them to read instead of having them colour alphabet worksheets (again)! Tracing worksheets are busy work, but they won't teach your child to re...
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ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
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Wondering if your child needs a reading tutor? You want a reading tutor who knows her phonics curriculum inside-out AND someone who actually has proven, classroom experience teaching children to read.
You want to know that your child's reading tutor aligns with your family values and understands when you child needs a 30 second movement break during a tutoring session!
An elementary reading and phonics tutor who is friendly, and ...
Should your beginning reader have a 'sound wall' or an 'alphabet wall'? This can be a larger chart on a wall poster, or table-top chart for your child to use for spelling words.
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Wondering how morphemes can help your struggling reader in 3rd - 5th grade? Keep your child engaged by using bigger words! Simple morphology skills in your mom reading teacher toolbelt will help you get the job done! It's time to uplevel your 3rd graders engagement in phonics by upleveling from CVC words to higher level words!
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Wondering if homeschooling is right for you? How can you teach your child to read when you're not trained as a teacher? Leigh Nguyen shares how she never intended to homeschool, but is now a dedicated homeschool mom encouraging other moms choosing this path for their children!
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