Posts for early childhood education

Every state in the US requires some level of evidence-based support for any curriculum used in our schools. In some ways, this makes a lot of sense. We want our schools to use what has been proven to work. But there is a challenge. How do we explore new methods that might be better than what we have done, and studied, before?

English is unique not only in its complexity, but also in the lack of a commonly adopted system to make it easier to learn.

But that is not the norm in many other languages.

Whatever your motivation, the goal is the same: your child needs to learn phonics to become an amazing reader.

Maybe they are three years old and just getting started with letters and sounds, or maybe they are six and you want to make sure they don't fall behind even though "learning" is now virtual for your school. 

However, the best phonics program for kindergarten might not be what you think.

Pod After School is an alternative to expensive Pod School programs, which can be organized by small family groups at virtually no cost.

The benefits can be huge, read on to find out how to carry them out safely.