RENTAL PROVIDES 1 YEAR OF ACCESS! Teaching Literacy in Grade 1 was created by Janet Langley and Patti Connolly. It includes a 2 hour segment on ‘Singing Games’ with singing guru, Anna Rainville. The workshop is based on Janet and Patti’s combined 65+ years of Waldorf teaching experience, includin...

RENTAL PROVIDES 1 YEAR OF ACCESS! Teaching Literacy in Grade 2 was created by Janet Langley and Patti Connolly. It includes a two hour segment on ‘Singing Games and Movement’ with singing games guru, Anna Rainville. The workshop is based on Janet and Patti’s combined 65+ years of Waldorf teaching...

RENTAL PROVIDES 1 YEAR OF ACCESS! Teaching Literacy in Grade 3 was created by Janet Langley and Patti Connolly. It includes a 2 hour segment on ‘Singing Games’ with singing guru, Anna Rainville. The workshop is based on Janet and Patti’s combined 65+ years of Waldorf teaching experience, includin...

Learn about the signs of reading difficulties, what to do when a student is experiencing these challenges through remediation and accommodations and modifications, and an introduction to understanding dyslexia.

Reimagining Main Lesson: How to Plan Effective, Creative, and Comprehensive Language Arts Main Lessons. Following Steiner's guidance, our approach to designing a main lesson works with the natural rhythms of the young child. Instead of 30-60 minutes opening 'circles,' which Steiner never promoted...

Phonological awareness, being able to recognize and play with sounds in spoken words, is crucial for learning how to read and spell. In this course learn about the three levels of phonological awareness and experience teacher-led activities that build each important skill, especially those of pho...

The Art of Storytelling: This video highlights the what, when, why, and how of storytelling in grade 1. It includes a short video that punctuates the difference between telling a story to the children and reading one to them. The video also discusses various approaches to reviewing a story and ho...

"The, any, who, of, some, they..." There are 250 words that make up 2/3 of the words on the printed page. By gradually and creatively teaching your class these "high frequency" words, over a period of two years (1st-2nd grade), you give them the gift of being able to read most of the words on th...

Understanding the journey we lead students on as they learn how to read and how to use each of the three teaching reading methodologies begins this three-session course. Guidance on the why and how of introducing "memory reading" in the first week of school comes next. Lastly an imaginative, inte...

Part A:This segment shows you how to plan your first language arts block! What materials you need; which letters you should consider selecting and how to bring them through stories; how to introduce handwriting; memory reading; phonological awareness; and fun practice activities.
Part B: Teachin...

This course delves into the importance of introducing the five "singing letters" through an exploration of their sounds' feeling nature, why to focus on their short sounds after their imaginative introductions, and how to introduce them through story and with anchor images. We also provide you wi...

Steiner shared the importance of guiding our students to reading through writing. In this course you learn how to introduce Kid Writing, writing about the stories you tell them or experiences they've had with invented spelling. Not only do they love sharing their ideas with others though this pro...

Taking the time to teach your first grade students a few basic writing skills can prevent years of bad writing habits. In this video, we will show you how to imaginatively introduce the basic skills of ending a sentence with a period- staving off run-on sentences; using -S to show more than one- ...

Learn why assessment matters and how to employ both continuous and summative criteria based assessments to support your students. Knowing why and how to lead them in student-centered learning and how to differentiate activities to meet each student are key goals of the second part of this course....

After over a decade of researching a variety of approaches to teaching these foundational skills, we have come up with what we think is the most creative, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate phonics skills instruction anywhere. This video package includes instructions on how to imagina...

After over a decade of researching a variety of approaches to teaching these foundational skills, we have come up with what we think is the most creative, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate phonics skills instruction anywhere. This video package includes instructions on how to imagina...

After over a decade of researching a variety of approaches to teaching these foundational skills, we have come up with what we think is the most creative, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate phonics skills instruction anywhere. This video package includes instructions on how to imagina...

After over a decade of researching a variety of approaches to teaching these foundational skills, we have come up with what we think is the most creative, comprehensive, and developmentally appropriate phonics skills instruction anywhere. This video package includes instructions on how to imagina...

This video highlights the what, when, why, and how of storytelling in grade 2. It includes a short video that punctuates the difference between telling a story to the children and reading one to them. The video also discusses various approaches to reviewing a story and how to choose the review m...

This course begins with a review of the why and how of teaching your students how to spell the most common high frequency words in 1st grade. You learn how to continue this work, adding another important spelling strategy, visualization, as the 2nd graders' decoding skills begin outpacing their e...

What a powerful teaching tool and differentiated learning experience Kid Writing is for children! In this hour-long course you learn what invented spelling is and why it's so important for learning to read. How to introduce Kid Writing in 2nd grade, lead the children in weekly writing experiences...

The Composition section of this course begins with a comparison of Kid Writing and composition and the prerequisites students need to have before you will gradually and imaginatively guide them to bring more structure to their writing. Best practices in introducing 2nd grade-friendly modeled writ...

As you journey through Englishland and Letter Village, you will receive a plethora of ideas and inspirations on how to introduce and practice Grammar and language mechanics with your students. Following Steiner's indications for 2nd grade, we will focus on both common and proper nouns, verbs, and...

This three-part course is a MUST! The first session is a review of the steps of teaching reading which was shared in our 1st grade sessions and reviews what your reading instruction in beginning Phonemic Awareness Phase entails. In the second session you learn how to set up and lead mid- to late ...

A step by step guide for planning your grade 2 literacy curriculum. The first video includes advice about how to approach your summer planning so that you begin the school year energized and organized. The planning your Main Lesson video includes guidance for planning your first literacy block in...

Learn why assessment matters and how to employ both continuous and summative criteria based assessments to support your students. Knowing why and how to lead them in student-centered learning and how to differentiate activities to meet each student are key goals of the second part of this course....

This course is for those teachers introducing cursive to their class. In this video we discuss why handwriting is much more valuable for neurological development than keyboarding; the proper tools/paper your students will need to master this skill; the role of Form Drawing (running forms) as prep...

Watch a Phonics Rule Main Lesson Demo as Janet models how to Introduce the /ow/, /ou/ diphthongs. The video includes how to weave in practice of past concepts, speech, bookwork, review, story, image, and activities for practicing /ou/ and /ow/. Used as a template for how to introduce a phonics ru...

This video collection created by master teacher and singing games guru, Anna Rainville, includes a myriad of singing games, poems, and movement activities to use as transitions between main lesson segments. These segments include 1) Overcoming midline barriers 2) Moving in space 3) Spelling activ...

This two-part course begins with a review of how to teach spelling in the Pattern Phase, focusing on the spelling mastery of 150+ high frequency words and then launches into the objectives, planning, and practice activities for Syllable Phase spelling. Topics include: discovering the magic of a w...

This video course includes 1) Four effective steps for teaching composition 2) Ideas for 'priming the pump' in support of your students' writing creativity 3) An approach to teaching self-editing that will save you countless hours of correcting in the years to come 4) How to work with spelling di...

Instruction covers: Introduction to prefixes and suffixes; The 1-1-1 rule; Rules for "Y"; Changing Y to I; Process for breaking up words into syllables for decoding; Working with open and closed syllables; Identifying accented syllables; how to encode and decode multisyllabic words; Schwa words; ...

This video collection explores the further adventures of English Land and Letter Village, including a review of the major concepts (noun and verb, etc.) taught in 2nd grade for use during your first practice block. It then covers the introduction and practice of the following: adjectives, adverbs...

This 90-minute course gives advice on how to design a stellar reading program that incorporates whole class, small group, and independent reading opportunities for 3rd grade. Key practices of reading instruction using a holistic approach, of organizing leveled reading groups, of providing targete...

A step by step guide for planning your grade 3 literacy curriculum. The first video includes advice about how to approach your summer planning so that you begin the school year energized and organized. The Main Lesson planning video includes guidance for planning your first literacy block includi...

Learn why assessment matters and how to employ both continuous and summative criteria based assessments to support your students. Knowing why and how to lead them in student-centered learning and how to differentiate activities to meet each student are key goals of the second part of this course....