Learn to Read!

We are two teachers who are determined to provide teaching videos, guidance and materials to help everyone lean to read

Reading research has long shown us that we need to explicitly teach reading skills. The key remembering the skills is to purposefully embed the sounds, letter combinations and skills in a sequential way into story, visuals, and actions.

We remember what we think about most.  We think about things that interest us. Engaging emotion and interest through story makes these skills something for students to think about well after the lesson is over.  Using motions to engage motor memory as well as visuals to help organize and categorize skills help students be active in engaging their memory. 

For each skill we provide direct instruction of skills through teaching videos, stories, tand explanations. We provide practice with games, little books, word, phrase and sentence lists, fluency pyramids and more! 

Quick Start

1. ← Use the table of contents on the left.

2. Go to Placement Checks for phonics, sight words and sounds to see where to start. If unsure, start at the beginning!

3. Work through the Big Sounds Pack and Sight Words along with the steps.

4. Start with Step 1 (or another step if placement indicates).
*Be sure to scroll to the bottom of each step for teacher resources and information!

Learners are ready for step 1 when they:

1. Know most of their letter sounds. (see below for video practice)
2. Can identify, the first sound in words and are beginning to identify the last and middle sound in words with 2 or 3 sounds.
   • The first sound in “bat” is /b/
   • The last sound in “bat” is /t/
   • The middle sound in :”bat” is /a/
3. Can blend two or three sounds to make a word.
   • /m/ … /o/ … /p/ says “mop”

Go to Letter Sounds for help with number 1
Go to Playing with Sounds for help with numbers 2 and 3.