“We went from 18 students in the fall needing assistance to 3 (in four months)!" 

From: the Desk of Jennifer Burns

If you're a kindergarten teacher feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering why your students seem disengaged no matter what you try—you're not alone.

Day after day, you're pouring your heart into teaching reading,

...but something isn't clicking.

Your students stare blankly during lessons, resist participating, and treat reading like a chore they're forced to endure. You've tried countless strategies, spent hours planning, yet your classroom feels stuck in a cycle of monotony:

* Lessons that look and sound exactly the same

* Students who won't work independently

* Constant need for your direct support

* A growing sense that you're losing their interest

You can ignite your students' love for reading while teaching letters and words:

The truth is, your current approach is missing the critical scaffolds that help students see, hear, and think deeply within texts. You're creating surface-level interactions instead of building the deep engagement students need to truly become independent readers.
So, If nothing changes, here's what's waiting for you:

- Students will see reading as something they do FOR the teacher, not FOR THEMSELVES

- Continued struggle with independent learning

- Growing academic gaps that become harder to close

Your students could remain, unable to apply reading skills to new experiences. Worse, they'll develop a lifelong belief that reading is boring, difficult, and something to be avoided....

There's a proven approach to transform reading from a chore into an exciting journey of discovery—an approach that will have your students reading - searching, matching, and building literacy skills with genuine enthusiasm.

"Can simple strategies really elevate your kindergarten instruction? Yes!"

"We hadn't been getting a lot of results (with our kindergarten students).  Since doing this we've seen a switch in our student's ability to pick up texts and know how to read them and how to interact with them. It definitely helps with phonics.  Students feel successful (which creates joy). Students are engaged all of the time. This gives me an avenue of teaching the skills in context and yet is 

the quickest they have been able to pick up sounds.

It's fifteen minutes a day."

Megan Dodd, Reading Teacher Extraordinaire

"How we overcame my fears and embraced change in teaching!"

”I am amazed at how many ways I have been able to tie it to our curriculum, utilize it to meet standards, and give students a new and interactive way to experience and love reading. ”

Brooke and Nicki, Kindergarten Teachers

“Well, I'll be honest, at the beginning of the year I was a little nervous to take on this new adventure. It seemed like we were, maybe pushing kindergarteners further than they should be pushed. But through all the trainings and modeling that Jen showed us and all the examples Jen has given us and all the resources, I've seen that kindergarteners are more than capable of doing the things that we're asking them to do in reading. Our kids are in a much better spot at this point in the year than they have been in years past.”

Emily Holm, Kindergarten Teacher

"How I fit transformative reading methods into my busy day!"

Brooke Praska, Kindergarten Teacher

"EVER WONDER IF NEW METHODS WOULD WORK?  They do!"

 Chris deNeui, Principal