As a former elementary classroom teacher for 27 years, I am very passionate about teaching and enjoy sharing my excitement about learning! I am a licensed, certified, and Tesol-certified teacher. I take pleasure in teaching and I am patient in working with the children.  Each child is unique and no two learners are alike. One student may learn quicker than a classmate but I believe all children have the potential to learn. I have high expectations for all students and I do not limit their learning.  I will encourage all my students to grow to their fullest potential! I love to teach children and get them excited about reading and their learning. I want to help my learners to have a strong foundation in reading so they will never experience the struggles I went through as a child, with no phonics instruction.  I want to engage the learners in activities so they will enjoy learning.

In these classes, I will use screen sharing of interactive slides I have created. One of the slides will be a downloadable activity sheet the teacher and students will do together in class. In this ongoing beginning reading class, students will learn the sounds associated with a few letters and how to blend these sounds to read consonant-vowel-consonant words. We will concentrate on one CVC family group in each session. The students will be involved in engaging activities and games throughout the class. First, the students will hear a story and be introduced to words in our word family. The students will use the pictures and other clues to help me find the words from our word family. Students will learn to sound the words out. 
The students will be actively engaged with my screen-sharing for the next activity. The children will take turns identifying what each picture is. The students will have to determine if the picture has the same sounds heard in our word families. Next, the students will take turns to help to identify which letter they need to write to make the word that is on their downloadable activity sheet. If the student does not have this sheet, they can use a plain piece of paper to write the words. The teacher will teach the students the correct way to write their letters as they would learn in the regular classroom. 

In the last activity, the students will see how the words are spelled and we will identify the words that rhyme with our word family for the week. If the child is able to read the words, I give them the opportunity to. There are several new vocabulary words in each word family to expose and increase the student's vocabulary. If we have time, we work on the comprehension of the words they learned. The student has to help find the correct word to use in the sentences the teacher writes. 

ESL students are welcome in this class. I have taught ESL students for many years in the classroom and Online with students from Asia. This class is perfect for a child that isn’t reading yet but is ready and eager to learn. This class is also ideal for the learner who knows some sounds and words but needs to continue to reinforce and support a strong foundation for mastery of reading.   
No prior knowledge is needed to enroll in this ongoing class. This class starts over after we have completed the cycle listed below.
The students will receive a certificate of completion when they finish the 20- week class.
 This is a great enrichment class that will help students to catch up on the learning that was lost during the pandemic that shut our nation's schools. This is a perfect class to add to your child's schedule even if they are back in person preschool or in another educational setting. 
Below are the word families we will learn in this exciting engaging class. You can JOIN ANYTIME as the class continues to lesson one after it reaches lesson 20.
I hope to see your learner in my class! 

 ___ap word family
 ___ig word family
 ___ip word family
 ___ob word family
 ___ot word family
___ un word Family
___ in word Family
___ an word family
___ am word family
 ___ at word family
___ et word family
___It word family
___um word family
___ag word family
___id word family
___og word family
___ut word family
___ed word family
___ad word family
___en word family

All students receive a colorful signed certificate of completion when they finish the course.

****I have written and/or created and own the copyrights to all the materials in these lessons. This includes the student activity sheets, stories written, and all the slides used in all of my classes.