Complete Reading Program

All About Reading teaches phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. You can add All About Spelling when your child is ready. This is a complete program for learning to read and spell.

All About Spelling and All About Reading are designed to be able to work independently of one another. But we have found it helpful to have the same approach used for both decoding and encoding. The rules are stated the same. The review of phonograms and word cards is similar. We move seamlessly between our reading and spelling lessons.

All About Reading and All About Spelling are based on the Orton-Gillingham approach. This method of teaching reading and spelling is especially helpful for dyslexic students, but is an excellent approach for all children.

Child Friendly

All About Reading is a multi-sensory reading program. Children see, say, hear, and touch during their lessons. It works for all learning styles.

Build words using phonogram tiles on a magnetic white board

Review word and phonogram cards

Read aloud stories

Fun activities

Short lessons

All About Reading Pre-Reading Level also includes the optional use of Ziggy the Zebra puppet. My kids had so much fun with him! Even though we have moved passed the Pre-Reading level, they still like for silly Ziggy to be part of our reading lessons.

Parent Friendly

All About Learning Press provides you with what you need to teach reading to your children.

Scripted. No guessing on how to teach lessons.

Simple games and activities. No need for additional supplies.

Reviews built right into lessons.

Free lifetime support from All About Learning Press.

Limited prep work.

I suggest you do all the prep work in advance so each lesson is open and go. Look for my Tips on using All About Reading coming soon.

Builds Confidence

My children know they can pick up their All About Reading readers and read their stories with confidence. These are the go-to books for my youngest to read aloud to her grandparents, her stuffed animals, and the dog. ;) It builds her confidence to know she can read these books all on her own.

Children know they are making progress. They track the lessons they complete on the provided progress chart. But more importantly, they master phonograms and words through the frequent reviews. Being able to read more and more words builds their confidence in reading.

I want to share a story with you - a story about my life and a valuable lesson I learned as an adult. As we approach the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, I feel this story is important to tell.

I never grew up with an appreciation for Dr. King. I wasn't taught about him in school, and really never even knew much about him until I moved to Atlanta in 1996. Isn't that a shame?

The area where I was born and raised was not very diverse. Ok. It wasn't diverse AT ALL.

(One of the reasons I'm so glad we homeschool is because we can let our children be exposed to diverse people and situations - they don't have to be stuck in the same 4 walls each and every day!)

As I went to college I began to encounter more people different than me, but when it came down to it, I functioned and lived with people who looked just like me.

When I was 24 my life and perspective broadened, and I am so thankful it did.

Learn About Martin Luther King, Jr. - Free Quotes & Copywork Printable

I began a teaching job in a 100% African American school in Atlanta.

This was no ordinary school, either.

It was fashioned after the schools started by Dr. Marva Collins. It was a strict, rigorous environment, with wonderful parental involvement and student success. It has consistently been one of the highest performing schools in our state.

(I bet when I said 100% African American you didn't quite expect that description of the school, did you?)

This is how prejudices and assumptions still run deep, even among people who claim they don't have a prejudiced bone in their body. It is my hope and prayer that we can abolish this in our children's generation.

I learned quickly how much Dr. King meant to so many people.

I heard 100 Kindergarten students recite the ENTIRE I Have a Dream Speech.

I became friends with a teacher who remembered sitting in the back of the bus riding to downtown Atlanta, and not being able to use the same bathrooms as whites.

I watched a classroom of children dramatize Rosa Parks being unwilling to move to the back of the bus. I will never forget the little girl that played Rosa... I can still see her fiery attitude as she planted herself in the front and would not move.

I was changed in many ways during my time teaching in that elementary school.

I thank GOD for the opportunity I had to be "the minority".

Most of all, I learned that we are not that far removed from racism. It is just a generation away (sometimes not even that far) and that is truly sobering.

I believe it is our duty and responsibility to teach our children about Dr. King. As homeschooling parents we have the opportunity and freedom to teach our children about anything we want. Teaching them about Dr. King is IMPORTANT.

We've studied about Dr. King each year in January, and I encourage you to do the same.