Curiosity School: Get Ready to Read
Help your child get excited about reading through hands-on activities!
About the Program
Through the Get Ready to Read program, your child will develop key early literacy skills while participating in self-paced, exploratory lessons. Your child will walk away from the program feeling empowered and inspired to learn to read!
Being a strong reader is a gateway to success in school and in life. Research shows that children who develop strong early literacy skills perform better in elementary school and beyond. The best way you can support your child is through engaging, hands-on activities that get your child to see the connection between literacy and their life. The Get Ready to Read program empowers kids to listen to sounds in words, pay attention to the letters they see around them, and develop reading comprehension skills with favorite stories. Kids will come out of the program ready for academic success and—even more importantly— academic enjoyment.
This program was designed to inspire kids to love learning, but it was also designed with you, my fellow parents, in mind. You’ll go from feeling overwhelmed by how to prepare your preschooler or kindergartener for learning how to read to knowing exactly how to support your child’s development. Even better, you won’t have to plan a thing! Your child will be engaged in self-directed lessons that are connected to their lives at home.
About Lily Jones
As a former kindergarten teacher with an M.A. in Education from U.C. Berkeley, I know learning to read begins long before kids try to sound out words. I also know how important it is that kids feel excited and empowered to learn, a mindset that will benefit them throughout their entire academic career (and beyond!) As a mom, I’ve found it hard to find ready-to-go, hands-on activities that kids can do independently. I created Curiosity School to get kids excited about learning through activities that give parents a well-deserved break.
Six Early Literacy Skills
By the end of the program, your child will have developed six early literacy skills that research shows are key for success in reading and writing:
ā£ Phonological awareness: The ability to recognize and work with sounds in words
ā£Concepts of print: The understanding of how print works.
ā£Vocabulary: Learning new words and using them in context
ā£Narrative Skills: The ability to understand and connect to stories
ā£Letter recognition: Identifying the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make
ā£Print motivation: A love of reading!
What the Program Includes
Through the Get Ready to Read program, kids will have access to 23 lessons that they can do in any order and as many times as they like. Each lesson contains:
A short video
getting your child excited about the day’s literacy activity
A hands-on, exploratory activity
that your child can do away from the screen (while you take a moment to make a phone call, put a load of laundry in, or just take a deep breath)
Printables and resources
to support your child’s learning
.
Plus, these bonuses to teach you how to best support your child:
Video training
on reading development
Book lists
full of ideas on how to engage your individual child
Modifications
for kids with special needs
Take a peek inside the program:
Introduction to How Kids Learn to Read
Lesson 1: Welcome + How to Use the Course
Lesson 2: How do kids learn to read?
Lesson 3: How you can support your child to love reading
Books are the Best
Introduction
Lesson 1: Find Books You Love
Lesson 2: Going on a Book Hunt
Lesson 3: Read to a Buddy
Lesson 4: Retelling Stories
Lesson 5: Book Detectives
Rhymes & Sounds
Lesson 1: Rhyme Time
Lesson 2: Find a Rhyme
Lesson 3: Clap it Out
Lesson 4: Sounds are all Around!
Exploring Letters
Lesson 1: What are letters?
Lesson 2: Letters are related
Learning the Alphabet
Lesson 1: The letters A, B, C, D
Lesson 2: The Letters E, F, G, H
Lesson 3: The letters I, J, K, L
Lesson 4: The letters M, N, O, P
Lesson 5: The letters Q, R, S, T
Lesson 6: The letters U, V, W
Lesson 7: The letters X, Y, Z
Lesson 8: Going on a Letters Hunt
Lesson 9: What letters are in your name?
Uppercase & Lowercase Letters
Lesson 1: What are lowercase letters?
Lesson 2: Big & little letters go together
I Know My Letters!
Lesson: I know my letters!
With fun activities & printables like this:
Enroll Today
Sign up for this ready-to-go-program and rest easy knowing that your child will develop early literacy skills they need for success in reading and beyond.
Enroll and get access to everything in the program for just $47.
