We teach the building blocks of children's literacy.

• If you question HOW DO YOU TEACH A CHILD TO READ AND WRITE, abcsforliteracy.com has the answers. Schedule a webcam appointment with a certified, experienced educator today. Our approach is for the educator to help the parent and child understand and practice fun, developmentally-appropriate literacy strategies that make learning how to read and write easy for your child. Teaching your child to read and write is simple with our tutoring and effective, early literacy strategies- strategies that build skills block by block. An abcsforliteracy.com educator will help your child build a strong literacy house that can withstand the huffs and puffs of life!

• abcsforliteracy.com teaches a balanced literacy approach including concepts of phonics, phonemic awareness, and whole-language. Our literacy strategies are learned from top national and international educators and educational researchers. Learning is engaging and fun!

• Weekly webcam tutoring sessions via SKYPE or YAHOO IM, $30 for a 25 minute session, are suggested. We serve any time zone, and our convenient webcam sessions bring a certified, experienced educator to you. All that is needed from you for a session is unlined paper (like typing paper as young children are often confused by lines) and a black crayon or marker to help assess your child's skills- and of course you and your child in front of the webcam! One session will provide you with key building blocks to jumpstart your child's literacy education- an easy way to give your child a head start in school. For your child to build a stronger literacy foundation, abcsforliteracy.com suggests at least 6 to 10 sessions. To help your child master all preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade literacy skills, an abcsforliteracy.com educator can work with your child for a few weeks or a few months, depending on your child. You can decide as you go along how many sessions are best for your child. Helping an emergent learner, a 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 year old, learn to read and write is simple with our elementary tutoring and our reading and writing program with early literacy tips. It just takes simple reading and writing strategies that build literacy skills block by block for a strong literacy house.

• Practicing the reading and writing activities and games, taught by our educators, for only minutes a day with your child can make the difference in helping your child become an early and successful reader and writer. At the preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade age, the best teacher is usually at home. We just help the parent know what to do! abcsforliteracy.com strongly advocates daily parent-child or sibling-sibling practice, as these bonds makes such practice invaluable. However, abcsforliteracy.com educators are available for daily sessions, if needed. A minute of practice here and there makes all the difference in your child learning to read and write early, easily, and with confidence!

• abcsforliteracy.com addresses your child's specific needs in online tutoring sessions via webcam conferences, using SKYPE or Yahoo instant messaging. Both SKYPE and Yahoo IM are free sign-up services, and a good webcam can be purchased for $35-50 for most computers, if your computer does not have one.

• All sessions are guaranteed. In each session, you will learn one or more good strategies to help your child’s literacy improve or you will not be charged for the session.  Additionally, your child will demonstratively improve in literacy (acquire a skill or more) in 3 sessions or your money will be refunded. Daily practice of the children's literacy strategies taught in the sessions is assumed and is key for learning. abcsforliteracy.com, we teach children to read and write easily and with confidence.

Try the following proven literacy strategies:

1. You know from infancy to late childhood: read, read and read stories every day to your child. Reading to your child will build your child's vocabulary for speech and later for understanding reading and writing. But did you know, for preschool, kindergarten, and into 1st grade: read and re-read later to your child repetitive stories such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle or Bark, George by Jules Feiffer to your child. Once your child has part of the text memorized, play "I spy" with sight words that are repetitious in the text. To play, write a sight word like "I, a, me, the, go, no" on a post-it note and let the child look at the post-it while searching the text for that word before that page of the story is read.

2. Around age 3: make your child a first name puzzle to explore putting letters together to make a word. The name puzzle helps to teach your child that words are made out of letters that must be put together a certain way to spell the word. Additionally, your child learns to identify the letters in their name.

3. Preschool age 3 or 4: purchase your child an uppercase with lowercase alphabet puzzle to explore putting the alphabet together in order. Your child will likely need help assembling such a large puzzle in the beginning. Sing the alphabet song with your child, pointing to the letters, after the puzzle is assembled. This is good practice identifying the alphabet letters.

4. After your child has learned to identify part of the alphabet, teach your child that alphabet letters have sounds using kid friendly pictures that become a reference for your child. Practice the alphabet sounds daily.

5. Practice matching to learn to identify letters or sight words. Matching helps imprint the letter or sight word to your child's working memory and is a good precursor skill to reading and writing.

 

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