Phonics for Homeschool Moms | Kindergarten Reading Curriculum, Teach my Child to Read, Reading Tutor, Child Has Dyslexia
This is a podcast for MOMS teaching 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!
Hi there, I'm Melanie. Wife to Bill and mom to 3 hard-working young adults. As an Ontario teacher, turned online reading curriculum creator, reading tutor and phonics coach for moms, I have a heart 🧡 for helping MOMS 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!"
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? It's time to get simple phonics skills in your back pocket, so that you can confidently teach your child to read to become a strong, independent reader!
TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO READ IS GOING TO BE SIMPLER THAN YOU THOUGHT!!
Episodes
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025
15 min
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 'giraffe'!
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📩 Weekly Insider's Phonics Note AND FREE 'Can Your Child Read This? QUIZ!
Get the COMPLETE PRINTABLE KINDERGARTEN PHONICS CURRICULUM: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home! [INCLUDES PHONICS SKILLS TUTORIALS FOR MOMS BY MELANIE!]
READING TUTOR! Start Reading in Just 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions!
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
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Dec 8, 2025
Dec 8, 2025
10 min
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 teach your Kindergarten homeschooler to read, teach these basic digraphs first: 'sh', 'ch' and 'th'.
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📩 Weekly Insider's Phonics Note AND FREE 'Can Your Child Read This? QUIZ!
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home! [INCLUDES COMPLETE PRINTABLE KINDERGARTEN PHONICS CURRICULUM]
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions HERE!
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 1, 2025
18 min
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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Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home [NOW includes COMPLETE PRINTABLE KINDERGARTEN PHONICS CURRICULUM!]
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025
14 min
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 skills
phonemic (letters sounds) awareness skills are part of each lesson
clear order of simple to more advanced phonics skills
quick recall of alphabet letters and sounds
includes blending skills to read words
segmenting skills to spell words
teaches 1 or 2 sight words each lesson
uses the fun word chain strategy for reading and spelling words
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✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home [INCLUDES COMPLETE PRINTABLE KINDERGARTEN PHONICS CURRICULUM]
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025
16 min
Are you parenting a young reader with ADHD? Break down your reading lesson at home into smaller chunks of time. Ask your child to focus on one phonics skills at a time, then allow for a quick movement break. Then, teach the next phonics skill in the lesson. Then take a break. If your child needs to move, stop fighting this. Movement is healthy and allows your child's brain (and yours MOM) to reset before teaching your child to read at home. Lean in to these 5 Survival Tips for Homeschool Moms Teaching Phonics at Home!
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✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
14 min
📩 Join the Phonics Rules for Kids Insider's List!
✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Nov 3, 2025
Nov 3, 2025
14 min
Frustrated with homeschool paper clutter taking over your home, leaving your homeschool days feeling chaotic? Switch to whiteboards! The goal for teaching your child to read isn't to have them do a bunch of random tracing pages anyway. Lead your child through phonics drill and skills. Teach them to read instead of having them colour alphabet worksheets (again)! Tracing worksheets are busy work, but they won't teach your child to read.
If you're serious about teaching your child to read using daily phonics lessons that actually move the needle for your child as a reader, it's time to cut the fluff and teach phonics like a PRO!
My course, TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: CONFIDENTLY MODEL SIMPLE PHONICS SKILLS AT HOME includes a complete, printable Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum and Phonics Skills Tutorials for MOMS! Finally, you can know what trained teachers know about teaching children to read (without the paper clutter)!!
📩 Join the Phonics Rules for Kids Insider's List!
✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Oct 27, 2025
Oct 27, 2025
29 min
📩 Join the Phonics Rules for Kids Insider's List!
✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!
ONLINE READING TUTOR! Start Reading in 7 Phonics Tutoring Sessions with Me HERE!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Oct 20, 2025
Oct 20, 2025
13 min
Wondering if your child needs a reading tutor? You want a reading tutor who knows her phonics curriculum inside-out AND someone who actually has proven, classroom experience teaching children to read.
You want to know that your child's reading tutor aligns with your family values and understands when you child needs a 30 second movement break during a tutoring session!
An elementary reading and phonics tutor who is friendly, and can lead your child through fast-paced, engaging phonics lessons. Phonics without the fluff.
What does it look like to work with me as your child's reading tutor? Find out more about my 25-minute reading tutoring sessions for Kindergarten through 3rd grade readers!
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✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
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Need an online reading tutor you can trust? Get started in phonics with 7 online reading tutoring sessions!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids
Oct 13, 2025
Oct 13, 2025
14 min
Should your beginning reader have a 'sound wall' or an 'alphabet wall'? This can be a larger chart on a wall poster, or table-top chart for your child to use for spelling words.
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✔️ Get the FREE Phonics Made Simple (Even if You're Not a Teacher) Guide!
💜 Join the FREE Community
Get the Course: TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ: Confidently Model Simple Phonics Skills at Home!
🙋🏼♀️Work with Me! Join me for a 1-Hour Phonics Coaching Call for Moms 'Teach Your Child to Read: Confidently Model Phonics Skills at Home!'
Website: https://phonicsrulesforkids.com
Email: melanie@phonicsrulesforkids.com
🎲 PHONICS BUMP GAME: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/phonics-rules-for-kids