ONLINE COURSEVenture IntoVowels
Learn how to teach the five short vowel sounds to struggling readers.
A complete intervention programme for struggling readers, irrespective of age or grade. It provides a starting point to the reading intervention process, meeting children on their literacy functioning levels while implementing “Straddling”.
The course is a pack of five comprehensive intervention programmes, one for each short vowel sound. Each comes with differentiated reading texts, word cards, games and assessments, built for teachers, therapists and homeschooling parents.
WHO IT IS FORMade foryou
- Classroom, remedial and learning support teachers who have struggling readers in front of them every day.
- Therapists and tutors who need a structured place to begin reading intervention.
- Homeschooling parents supporting a child who is not yet reading with confidence.
- Anyone teaching a reader of any age who still needs the short vowel sounds to stick.
What you will learn
- The two-pronged approach to teaching reading
- What “Straddling” is and how to meet a child on their reading level
- The three reading phases and where a child sits in them
- How to design a reading lesson
- Reading instruction and vocabulary development
- Developing word recognition skills through play
- Developing rhyming, listening and phonemic awareness skills
- Connecting images to print
- Word families explained, and how to use them
- Pre-reading activities, games and activity ideas
- Reading differentiated stories and using reading fluency charts
- How the assessments work and how to score them
- How to use every resource in the pack
- Tips from Annemarie
WHAT IS INCLUDEDEverything inthe pack
- Let’s Talk posters for Level 1
- Differentiated stories for Levels 2 to 4
- Matching picture and word cards
- Reading charts and word families
- Revision games
- Assessments with score sheets
- QR audio stories, brand new and not part of the live trainings
- The Golden Key Guide: your orientation to the whole programme
Every resource is downloadable from inside the course, ready to print and use the same day.
The same programme, taught live
Full day · 6 hours
A training course on how to teach struggling readers and where to begin to meet them on their reading functioning levels.
- Complete five short vowels system
- Printed, full colour guide included
- Lunch and coffee included
- Certificate of attendance
Start the online course
Work through the filmed lessons at your own pace, download the resources as you go, and come back to any lesson whenever a child needs it.
Not sure yet? The free starter lets you try a taste of the programme first.