This class is available both live and in this self-paced format.  Feel free to message me with time requests for live sessions.  

In this course, I offer private tutor sessions engaging students in wonderful stories, drawing, and writing as they practice and identify short vowel word families and digraphs.  This class is perfect for students who have mastered letter recognition and are ready for the next step in their reading journey.  

I will guide students in identifying and practicing digraphs (sh, ch, etc.) and word families (an, en, ag, etc.) in a meaningful and magical way that developmentally speaks to the student.  Each word part will be introduced with a story allowing the student to form a picture with the sounds.  Students will also be guided to create their own visual for word families so they can be hung up or kept in a sketchbook or main lesson book to refer back to when reading, if needed.  

Students will also draw pictures from the story, as pre-writing activity that warms them into working on the writing work with me.  Students will identify and practice digraphs and word family parts while improving handwriting, writing skills, sight word identification, drawing completion skills, and hearing wonderful folktales and multi-cultural stories from around the world.  Please provide a sketchpad 9x12 or main lesson book, along with stockmar block and stick crayons for these lessons.