• 46. Googling Kindergarten Homeschool Language Curriculum? Here’s Why You Can’t Teach Reading Without Phonics!
    Jun 30 2025

    Maybe you’re type A and you’ve already ordered your Kindergarten, Grade One or Grade Two Homeschool Language Curriculum for the year. Maybe you’re a little less type A and are just getting around to googling homeschool kindergarten reading. Either way, whichever homeschool reading curriculum you choose, phonics must be a core component. In my 10 + years experience teaching children ages 4-8 to read, explicitly teaching your child all 44 sound-symbol relationships in the English Language is most successfully taught through core phonics instruction. Find out why you just can’t teach reading skills, and inversely, accurate spelling patterns without phonics.

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    12 mins
  • 45. Think You Don’t Need Homeschool Reading Assessment Data? 3 Reasons You Do!
    Jun 23 2025

    It’s time to shine the light on HOW a simple phonics assessment can help you plan your next phonics lesson at home for your struggling reader!

    Sign up for the BACK TO SCHOOL PHONICS BOOTCAMP on Tuesday, August 5th! bit.ly/phonicsbootcamp

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    ✔️ Get the FREE 7-Step Homeschool Kindergarten Phonics Checklist!

    🙋🏼‍♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Zoom Coaching Call 'Teach Your Child to Read: Simple Phonics Strategies for Homeschool Moms'

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    11 mins
  • 44. Shying Away from These Vowel Teams? 5 TIPS to Confidently Teach Long ‘u’ at Home
    Jun 16 2025

    Maybe you’ve been shying away from teaching long u vowel teams. Why are there so many different spellings for long u? When do I teach my child to spell long u this way? When do I teach my child to spell long u that way? You say to yourself, it’s too complicated, so I’ll teach them one way to spell long u, and hope for the best.

    The thing is, your son or daughter will come across words with different long u spellings. So, it really is best to just rip off the band-aid and teach long u in all of its forms, so that your child can apply vowel team rules to read these words. It’s time to teach your child all the long u spellings, so that he or she can tackle reading these words head-on.

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    11 mins
  • 43. Should Your 5 Year-Old Be Able to Read This? A Look at Kindergarten Baseline Reading Assessments
    Jun 9 2025

    Have you quietly asked yourself, “Should my 5-year-old son be able to read that?” OR Maybe you're wondering, “Why can’t my 5 year-old read that?” Today, we’re looking at Kindergarten Baseline Reading Assessments. What phonics skills are we measuring? How are we measuring your child’s ability to demonstrate age-appropriate phonics skills? AND Why is a baseline reading assessment an important tool you’ll want to have handy in your homeschool mom phonics teacher toolbelt? Today’s episode spells out the what, how and why of a baseline reading assessment for your beginning reader.

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    13 mins
  • 42. Still Believing the Lies? 5 Myths Parents Believe About How Children Learn to Read!
    Jun 2 2025

    It’s time to debunk myths about how kids learn to read and replace misconceptions with truths.

    Myth #1: Learning to read is a natural process that will happen on its own.

    Myth #2: Your child should begin reading at age 4.

    Myth #3: Learning to read is like learning to speak.

    Myth #4: Phonemic awareness doesn’t need to be taught to be understood.

    Myth #5: Dyslexic children will never read well.

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    11 mins
  • 41. Why Double the ‘G’ When Spelling ‘Bugged’? Vowel Suffix SOS for Parents!
    May 26 2025

    "Mom, why do I have to double to the 'g' in the word bugged? It doesn’t make sense!" If your child has asked you this question, and you honestly weren’t sure how to answer your kiddo at that moment, you’ll want to stick around for this episode of Phonics Rules for Kids.

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    12 mins
  • 40. Teaching First and Second Grade Consonant Suffixes at Home? PRO TIPS for Mastering Morphemes in Early Readers!
    May 19 2025

    Quiz time. Can you identify which form of the base or root word ‘hope’ you are hearing in the following sentences. Adjective, noun or adverb? I could feel hope rising. I truly began to feel hopeful. Time was ticking, and I started to feel hopeless. Their father said they were not allowed to have a puppy until they were older, but we saw them sitting hopefully outside the pet shop. Find out if you scored 4/4?

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    12 mins
  • 39. How Do I Teach Prefixes in Second Grade? 5 HACKS for Homeschoolers!
    May 12 2025

    You know you should be teaching your second grader prefixes, but how? Which prefixes should you teach first? Join me to discover 5 helpful hacks for teaching common prefixes so that your child can read and spell so many more words!

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    11 mins