Micro- Courses

Designed to Fit Your Time, Needs, & Budget

Big, comprehensive courses are expensive try to teach everything, take too long to complete, and are often abandoned due to overwhelm or loss of interest in the topic.
Micro-courses are much less expensive, cover one specific area of a larger topic, can usually be completed in less than 2 hours and
often leave you with ideas that can be immediately implemented.

Conversational / retelling skills
Letter knowledge
Phonological understanding
Directionality
Vast amount of background knowledge
Comprehension skills
Rich & robust oral vocabulary
Correct use of vocabulary
Print awareness
True desire & motivation to read

These listening, speaking, thinking, and playing skills give children practice with sounds, words, stories, and books long before they ever decode a sentence.
Teaching a child how read before the mastery of the important foundational literacy skills I teach in this course is possible, but it's like building a house on a foundation of sand… there will come a point where the whole house starts to crumble.

Here’s What You’ll Learn

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Here’s What You’ll Learn

I can teach you how to get the most out of each and every story you read to your child!

Early read aloud exposure has a high correlation with future success in school. Note that I didn’t say reading early correlates with future success.

Listening to stories builds the brain connections necessary for learning to read. Children become active learners after hearing a story multiple times and begin to make use new words and understandings in their daily lives.

Easy strategies that dramatically improve your child's comprehension.
How read alouds can work to build your child's oral/speaking vocabulary
The 3 step/3 read method for getting the most from each book you read together
Ways to utilize read alouds and repeated readings to build 8 literacy "super-powers" that will benefit your child throughout their education and into adulthood
Secrets to becoming a master in the skill of reading aloud to your child
What to do before, during, and after each reading of a great story.

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You’ve gotten the message, reading to your child is important!

The problem is that you’re not sure about which books to read. Are there better books you could be reading?

In this course, I teach you HOW to pick the winners… the books that aren’t just great stories, but also offer great opportunities for learning along the way.

This micro-course also includes over 10 lists of recommended books from a wide variety of categories

Here’s What You’ll Learn

The 7 Indicators of a well-written children's book that's also a good base for teaching early literacy skills
Why it's important to include nonfiction books in your storytime rotation
How to "pair" fiction and nonfiction books for an ultimate learning experience
Why you should include a little poetry in your nightly reading
The powerful early-literacy lessons nursery rhymes can teach your child
Wordless books are a fun and powerful source for teaching multiple "pre-reading" skills.

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You don't have to be a teacher in order to know how to ask the "right questions" about what you're reading.

Questioning skills can be taught.
There's an easy-to-follow formula.

The right conversations during storytime can grow vocabulary, reasoning, and comprehension years before schools expect it.
I've got you covered!

I teach you what to say so that your child learns to think, not just listen.
No pressure…No turning nightly stories into lessons.
Just natural conversations

Here’s What You’ll Learn

Why and when to ask questions.
The different types of questions.
Why some questions are better suited for teaching critical thinking while others are better suited for simple recall questions.
What "wait time" is and why it's so important.
What "Bloom's Taxonomy" is and how you can use it to build and challenge your child's thinking.
Practice creating questions for specific titles.

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Here’s What You’ll Learn

Vocabulary is one of the strongest predictors of a child's future academic success.

Children who enter school with larger vocabularies learn to read more easily and have an easier time understanding what they read.

Without a strong vocabulary, a child might be able to read words correctly and still not comprehend what's being read.

Why vocabulary matters more than early decoding
How to naturally introduce new words during read-alouds
How to explain unfamiliar words so children actually remember them
How to use everyday routines to grow language
How to help children practice and use new words
How picture cards and storytelling reinforce meaning
How to help a child connect words across contexts
How to build confidence in speaking and understanding

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What “layered learning” actually means
How to teach story elements naturally (character, setting, problem, solution)
How to help children retell and summarize a story
How to use art, cooking, and outings to reinforce comprehension
How to use toys and pretend play to deepen understanding
The role technology can play in your child's early-literacy learning ... it's not all bad.
How to encourage independent imaginative play
How story-based play builds inference and problem-solving