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Helping children with early years reading
Updated on Sep, 2026
Teaching and Academics , Teacher Training,
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Reading is an absolutely essential life skill that will enable future success, in school, college and later in work. This course is designed to help you understand the basics of using phonics as a key reading strategy. It provides an overall introduction to phonics and gives you tools to use that will help lay down a foundation for reading fluency.
In each section we discuss reasons for using phonics. You will find lots of very colourful resources (with a value of more than $70) that will give you hands-on practise. You can download directly from within the course itself and they are free for you to use.
Working through four critical stages
1. You will get used to using the sounds of the alphabet, rather than letter names.
2. You will help your child to match sounds to letters
3. As you progress you will learn how to sequence phonemes, and use resources such as picture cues, and some crazy, crazy actions (TPR) that your child will love to engage with.
4. You will explore and learn techniques to present the first 100 high frequency words (sight words), that are a bit 'tricky' because they can't be decoded.
5. You will move on to digraphs that can be a bit challenging. Here you'll understand the different types of digraphs and how to show your child so they can begin to read more complex words and texts.
Your lead instructor for the course, Brenda Martin is a literacy a specialist and primary/elementary school teacher with more than 35 years experience in the UK and overseas with many international children. Brenda simplifies the use of phonics for you the parent, and for teachers who are new to phonics. With a wide range of resources for you to download and use, work along with Brenda and quickly master the steps to teach your children to read in a way that is motivating and fun for both kids and adults alike.
Brenda's relaxed manner, clear knowledge and expertise makes this course a must for anyone who wants to provide early reading support to their children.
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Hi there, I'm Kathy. I'm a postgraduate qualified Professional Development Trainer, Career Transition Coach and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist specialising in Stress Management and Mindfulness. In addition I worked with many international professionals for whom English was a 2nd or 3rd language and I coached them both in linguistics and business skills.
Over the past 35+ year or so, I’ve seen incredible transformation in people's lives as they grab their courage and strike out to create something new in their lives or, to change something that has been perplexing them for years.
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Having worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, my clients come from all walks of life including university undergraduates to PhD level, and senior international business professionals .
After so many years with occasional changes in direction, I am still totally passionate about what I do and believe that everyone has the inner potential to achieve great things.
I love the opportunities that platforms such as Tutorialspoint provide for both students and instructors.
Today I am the co-author on Tutorialspoint of Fun Reading With Phonics developed after 5 years training elementary level teachers in Malaysian state schools. It was fun to create and now I hope that for you it's fun to learn.
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