Give Your Kids A Head Start!

Open their minds to a world of adventure and possibilities

Children are full of curiosity and imagination. Learning to read helps to develop that natural imagination. Reading can take your child on the most amazing journeys.Through reading they can become super heroes, animals or crazy cartoon characters. Reading opens your child's mind.

What You Will Get From This Course

Have fun following along with the practical demonstrations

  • Why Use Phonics

    You will learn about why we use phonics to help young learners begin to read. Understanding the rationale can help you guide your child's reading journey

  • Techniques

    There are so many techniques for learning. We hope that those we demonstrate here give you the confidence to really support your child's reading development.

  • Phonics Resources

    There are over 20 colourful resources available for you. They are yours for life and they are free for you to use. Have fun with your child as you download them and use them together.

What's Inside?

Reading is an essential life skill. This course will help you understand the phonics basics, as a key reading strategy. It will provides you with a great foundation to help prepare your child for reading fluency.

  • Get your child using sounds of the alphabet and match them with letters.

  • Learn how to sequence phonemes & use resources like picture cue cards, and crazy actions!

  • Together explore 'sight' or high frequency words & how to learn them.

  • Get to grips with the tricky digraphs and really get reading well.

  • Check progress together with your child and see how quickly they learn.

We believe that every child should be able to read

When you help your children read with confidence, you open up a whole world of adventure and possibilities for your them. And more than that they are prepared for the world around them now and into their futures.

Instructors

Meet Your Instructors

Senior Instructor

Brenda Martin

Brenda is a qualified and highly experienced teaching professional. Teaching has always been a vocation that she is totally dedicated to. Brenda has worked in primary education for more than 30 years and latterly spent nearly 10 years working with the Ministry of Education in Malaysia as a Teacher Trainer and mentor. She specialises in work with young learners and has always been deeply passionate about holistic teaching practices. After retiring from mainstream teaching Brenda once again returned to work when offered the opportunity to work in Malaysia for the Ministry of Education. “I couldn't resist - so off I went, not realising that it would be nearly 10 years before I would return to Europe.” I am so pleased to have discovered yet another opportunity to continue sharing my experience, skills and knowledge and am certainly looking forward to working with you, my new students.

Instructor

Kathy Roots

Kathy is a professionally qualified trainer, educator and coach. She is passionate about education and believes whole-heartedly that everyone possesses innate talents and potential. Kathy sees her job as helping to harness that potential. With 30+ years’ experience working around the globe, from delivering business training, personal development and English language coaching, she continues to enjoy the work she does to enable others to achieve their ambitions and goals. "I was thrilled when Brenda asked me to co-tutor this introductory programme with her. I totally respect her enormous range of experience, dedication and commitment to children's reading abilities. I hope you thoroughly enjoy the course and make great use of it with your children."

Testimonials

Our students said...

Suzana Budincic

Very well explained! Very useful for teachers who have young learners. I would definitely recommend it to all of my colleagues!

Salome Ong’ele

Precisely, I needed it so much. Quite relevant to my work where I lead an early grade reading project in Africa!

Mary Hawkes

Has improved my understanding of how to teach and help my granddaughter to read.

Kadambari Ghate

Loved the way it was taught.

Helen Murray

t was set out simply, good resources and clear explanations.

Invest in your child today!

Give them the head start they need

A small investment goes a long way when it is your child's future. You can help prepare them even at pre-school age and give them the precious life skill of reading.