This course is for parents, tutors, and classroom teachers whose students are learning how to read. It is an intensive, systematic, phonetic, structured evidenced-based approach to decoding and word recognition. Instructors will learn how to use multi-sensory visual, interactive, tactile, auditory learning strategies to help students overcome reading difficulties. For example, teachers will learn how to engage students in exciting, effective ways by helping them to sound, say, and sing syllabic and phonemic sounds.

Ultimately, this is a speech-to-print course. Students will build foundations for excellence in reading and writing by learning how to spell phonemic and syllabic sounds by naming and writing them down. In other words, students will learn to spell well to read well.

The course content includes the following:
An introduction to the Science of Reading made simple: what every reading teacher needs to know about how the brain learns to read.

An introduction to the Science of Spelling made simple: what every reading teacher needs to know about how systematic spelling instruction enhances reading instruction.

Instructors will learn:
How to help students master the alphabetic principle
How to help students build phonemic awareness through auditory training
How to help students master phonetic elements through simple syllables
How to help students develop phonemic analysis through syllabic segmentation
How to help students build words by using the most essential syllabic patterns such as CVC and VCE words

Upon completion of this course, which comprises L1-L5, educators will receive certification from ScholarSkills as a Level One STARS Instructor. STARS is our acronym for Scientific Training in Analytical Reading Skills. This level one certification means that instructors have been intensively trained in the use of multi-sensory tools to teach and remediate students in foundational reading skills.