Phonics Rules for Kids | BEST Homeschool Kindergarten Reading Curriculum, Teach Child to Read, Online Reading Tutor, Dyslexia Help for Kids

Phonics Rules for Kids | BEST Homeschool Kindergarten Reading Curriculum, Teach Child to Read, Online Reading Tutor, Dyslexia Help for Kids

This is a podcast for MOMS teaching their beginning or struggling readers at home! 🧡 Worried you won't be able to teach your Kindergarten, 1st or 2nd Grader to READ at home? Overwhelmed by curriculum choice, wondering which Kindergarten Phonics and Reading Curriculum is best? Wondering HOW to help your struggling reader? Could she have dyslexia? ❓Do you find your child guessing at words? NOW is the time to take a deep dive into SIMPLE PHONICS SKILLS as a MOM, so that YOU can raise a STRONG, CONFIDENT READER! Grab my free PHONICS 101 GUIDE for MOMS! Hi there, I'm Melanie. An Ontario teacher who has a heart 🧡 for helping parents of beginning and struggling readers! I help MOMS learn SIMPLE PHONICS SKILLS, so they can TEACH THEIR KIDS TO READ WITH CONFIDENCE! NO MORE SAYING, "But, I'm not trained as a teacher!" Hi, I'm Melanie. A full-time core PHONICS and K-3 classroom teacher. Wife to Bill, and mom to three hard-working teenagers. 10+ years TEACHING students to become strong, confident readers in a classroom setting, tells me that PHONICS is the FOUNDATION to SUCCESSFUL READING. ☑️ Ready to ditch curriculum overwhelm, know exactly where to start when teaching your child to read, and confidently model phonics skills so that you can teach your child to read with confidence? TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO READ IS GOING TO BE SIMPLER THAN YOU THOUGHT!! Visit Phonics Rules for Kids Website

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March 30, 2026 18 mins

Wondering which phonics skills to teach in Kindergarten through 2nd grade? Which phonics skills should you teach first in Kindergarten? What order should I teach phonics skills? Discover 10 core phonics skills you need to be teaching, so that your child can become a strong, confident independent reader!

 

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English Language Learners in 2nd grade often grasp basic phonics skills quickly! Does being an ELL student, English Language Learner, affect reading comprehension? WHY is reading comprehension so hard?

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I had so much fun joining Zeba on the Kindergarten Cafe Podcast to chat all things phonics and early reading instruction! We dove into how both of our teaching journeys led us to discover the power of systematic phonics, and we shared practical tips for making small group reading time effective and engaging for young learners.

If you're a parent, teacher, or homeschooler eager for actionable ideas to boost kids' confidence and ski...

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March 12, 2026 3 mins

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Get 30% OFF TEACH YOUR KINDERGARTEN CHILD TO READ [includes Printable Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum AND Bite-Sized Phonics Skills Trainings]!

 

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Need SPELLING words activities for 1st grade at home? It's so tempting to print off yet another free worksheet for your child to trace. BUT, is that really teaching your child to read and spell? Spelling worksheets are okay, BUT get your child to practice spelling words on whiteboards FIRST!

Inside my course, TEACH YOUR KINDERGARTEN CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home, I offer just that! AND, we do it all...

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Need low prep phonics activities and games for reading centers? Get PHONICS BUMP! Keep kids engaged with Phonics BUMP. Kids ask to play Phonics BUMP games again and again!

These print and play phonics games perfectly align with UFLI Lessons AND my printable Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum inside my course, TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!

 

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Have you ever told a friend, "My child's handwriting is terrible!" This episode is for you! If you're wondering how to improve your child's printing, Joanna Kettle of Keeping Beautiful Handwriting Alive, is here to help. 

If your child is forming letters incorrectly, it takes longer. Teach your child proper letter formation from the start! Printing skills and proper letter formation allows your child to read his/her OWN writing. Ki...

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NEED a phonics curriculum for Kindergarten and 1st grade that keeps kids engaged! Check out my course, which includes my printable Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum & Phonics Skills Tutorial Trainings for Moms! 

When your child is NOT engaged in phonics lessons, it affects her ability to decode, spelling, reading fluency and reading comprehension. Find out HOW this Kindergarten and 1st grade Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum is dif...

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Wondering how to teach your child to read in just 5 phonics lessons? Did you know that your child just needs to know 4 alphabet letters and sounds to be able to read a simple CVC word? Lean in to find out HOW you can teach your child to read his first words and a sentence!

👉🏼 Get sample FLUENCY GRIDS! [From Struggling Reader to Fluent Reader!]

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Homeschool Coop Class Ideas for Elementary Reading: 

From Kindergarten Letter Sounds to Sentences! 

Are you a homeschool co-op teacher wondering HOW to get through your next class in one piece? Wondering how to help students with their hands up, needing your help, but feeling defeated because there's not time to help them all! Lean in, teachers, and get 5 sanity-saving h...

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Why can't your child sit still for a reading lesson at home? You’re 10 minutes into phonics drills and your child who was focused, right there with you, is now looking up at the ceiling and swinging his legs against the chair. You know as a mom that his ability to learn phonics skills at this particular moment is just not happening!

Wondering HOW to get your child to sit still for reading activities at home? Meet Sarah Collins, an ...

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What to do when your 10-year old can't read? It's tough to feel helpless to know how to help your child read when your daughter struggles to read grade-level texts. Even when you buy books that she loves. How can you help your child to read at home?

Aways go back to the basics. Start with a simple phonics checklist. Then check for knowledge of word chunks. Reading fluency - if your child is reading slow. If you've done your best to...

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Are you homeschooling your 1st grader? Discover 6 vowel-syllables to teach your 1st grade reader at home. Your child need to know these vowel-syllables, so that she can read and spell words correctly.

The vowel types are: open syllables, closed syllables, r-controlled vowels, final stable syllable 'le' and long vowel syllables. Teach your 1st grade homeschooler these six vowel types, and put her on the path to becoming a confident...

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Are you struggling to teach your kid to read? Is your child still struggling to memorize hundreds of sight words? It's time to ditch the overwhelm of pure sight word memorization! Instead, teach your child to decode each sound in whole words, so that she can read sentences more quickly and with greater fluency. When you teach your child phoneme-grapheme phonics relationships, such as 'ch' spell /ch/ and 'ur' spells /ur/, then she c...

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Are you still printing off random alphabet worksheets 2 minutes before your child's phonics lesson at home? If you feel scattered, it's because you're not following a phonics scope and sequence for homeschool reading. A scope and sequence lists the phonics skills, typically by grade, and in which order to teach these letters and sounds (phonemes and graphemes), so that you can fast-track your child's reading success.

Regardless of...

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Are you homeschooling a large Christian family? Meet Haydee Wenholz, a fun, energetic homeschool mom, who taught her 5 kids to read at home! Haydee focuses on building relationships with your children as being vital to making progress in your homeschool schedule. She also shares how she taught her 5 kids to read, and the importance of flexibility in your homeschool schedule.

She encourages homeschool moms to be patient, knowing eac...

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Mom, are you wondering why your child is confused between the 'hard g' and the 'soft' g'? Why is the 'soft c' and 'soft g' in words so hard to remember? Why does the letter 'c' have two letter sounds anyway? Of course it's confusing. It's time to teach your 1st grade homeschooler basic phonics rules for 'soft c' and 'soft g', so that he can become a fluent reader who no longer gets stuck on words like 'city', 'cell', 'gem' and 'gir...

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What is a digraph? Have you looked at your homeschool phonics curriculum and noticed the word 'digraph'? Maybe you've even see the word 'trigraph'? What are these phonics skills, and how can you teach these to your beginning reader?

Digraphs are sounds represented by 2 letters. Common consonant digraphs are 'sh', 'ch', 'th', 'ng', 'ph' and 'wh'. Vowel digraphs (vowel teams) work together to make one long vowel sound. When you teac...

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Today, we welcome former teacher turned homeschool mom and online business owner, Christine Furman, to the podcast! Christine helps homeschool moms integrate play-based learning through her EduPlay curriculum. Check out Christine's podcast, Home Education with Ease!

 

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Wondering which phonics-based homeschool reading curriculum is best for Kindergarten and 1st grade? What should know about choosing your phonics curriculum to get your child reading with success? 

If you want to place your child on the path to becoming a confident, successful reader, then choose your homeschool phonics curriculum with these daily lesson criteria:

  • lessons are cumulative and review previously learned phonics sk...
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