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Kate's lessons follow a carefully designed "roadmap" of sounds and skills, where each new lesson builds perfectly on what your child has just learned. This structured approach means nothing is left to chance; every step is planned to ensure your child builds confidence and truly masters each concept. It's a clear path that leads to meaningful reading and writing skills, setting your child up for a wonderfully successful journey as they learn to read and write!

Kate uses a highly effective method called explicit teaching, which is strongly supported by the "Science of Reading"—the proven research on how children learn to read. In every lesson, you'll find a rich blend of activities covering listening, speaking, sound blending, phonics, reading, writing, and comprehension. All this valuable learning comes from Kate's years of expertise, ensuring your child gets precise, targeted instruction. She's right there, guiding them through every piece of the learning to help them become truly skilled readers and writers!

Every reading lesson with Kate starts with the building blocks: connecting letters to their sounds. This helps your child accurately spell, read, and write words. Kate clearly shows your child exactly how to use these letter sounds to build words, making the whole process easy to understand. It all begins with sounds, then connecting them to print, building words, and finally, reading and writing!

In Kate's lessons, we use decodable reading materials that are custom-made for each step. This means your child will always be reading books and activities that use the sounds and skills they've just learned, making reading feel achievable and exciting. It's a wonderful way to help them become confident readers quickly!

With all of Kate's lessons, writing comes naturally right after learning to read. We weave writing into every lesson in a way that's both fun and meaningful, helping your child develop this important skill right alongside their reading journey. In Foundation 1, handwriting and correct letter formation is learned alongside each new letter sound.

With our fun, interactive lessons, it's like Kate is right there, guiding your child through each step. They'll stay engaged and focused, learning essential reading and writing strategies at their own pace, in a way that works for your family. Your child's confidence will soar as they quickly begin to "read" and "write," even with only a few initial sounds.