Each lesson combines online video, with readings, assessment, and support materials and bonus content to help you quickly improve your instructional skills.  Many of the lessons are directed only to you the parent with instructional ideas and knowledge, while other lessons are designed to be watched jointly with your child to inform you and set the stage for a deeper conversation on an aspect of learning.

In 20 short and engaging lessons, you will learn …

• How to teach basic reading skills
• How to motivate a struggler with the Beginning with Winning exercise
• Barracuda’s Nosebleed (the science of extinguishing behavior)
• How to “Scaffold” a learner
• Finding and select the right reading material
• How to have structured conversations with your child on learning
• Instructing the identification of consonant sounds
• Teaching those “Tricky Vowels”
• How and when to teach Phonemic Awareness
• How to build phonological awareness skills using Elkonin boxes
• The fundamentals of phonics
• How to teach Level A
• How to teach Level B-D
• How to “chunk” words
• Techniques for teaching how to knock down that BIG word barrier
• 4 places to break words into syllables
• Identifying syllable types
• Putting all this to work