Most children around 2½ to 3 years old are ready for the Step 1 activities to become aware of the speech sounds in spoken words.

Since spoken language is the foundation for written language, it's important that your child has gone through the language explosion stage as a toddler and is now talking in short sentences.

Up to this point, your child has been focused on learning the names of things, but now you'll be inviting your child to pay attention to the individual speech sounds in those words.

Does your child remember the names of some shapes, colors and animals? That's a good sign that your child's brain is ready to begin learning about abstract concepts such as understanding that letters are symbols that represent speech sounds.

Children who start Step 1 of this phonics program at around 3 years old will typically be ready for the first reading activity in Step 4 at around 4½ years old.

The Playful Path to Reading is hosted on an online learning platform. You’ll get your login details when you complete your purchase, and then you’ll get instant access to everything. The content is provided in videos with subtitles, written lessons and downloadable PDFs.

You get lifetime access to The Playful Path to Reading, plus all future updates. Start today or whenever it’s convenient for you. Login whenever you’re ready for more activity ideas. You can access the content across any and all devices you own, even your mobile phone.

Because this phonics program includes downloadable files, there are no refunds.

If you have any hesitations, email lisa@lisaadele.com to get your questions answered before you complete your purchase.

If you commit to taking action on everything you learn inside The Playful Path to Reading to help your child learn to read, then it WILL work for you!

I'm 100% committed to supporting you through your child's journey to reading, and I invite you to join if you are committed too.

This is a completely self-paced online course.

You get instant access to everything as soon as you complete your purchase. You can get started today or whenever it’s convenient for you. Login whenever you’re ready for more training or activity ideas.

You pay once and can use the program over the years with all of your children. And, yes, that includes continued access to a Montessori teacher for support!

This phonics program includes everything you need, but hands-on Montessori materials are always going to be better than printable versions.

I highly recommend that you purchase a set of Montessori sandpaper letters for Step 2 and a Montessori moveable alphabet for Step 3. Inside the course you'll see recommended vendors.

You'll get a checklist of ideas for objects you can gather from around your home if you want to use those for Steps 1-4 instead of printing the pictures.

You might also find it convenient to buy a set of phonics objects from my shop, but I offer 30% off this purchase for all members of The Playful Path To Reading.

The words to practice reading in Step 4 can be handwritten on a whiteboard or pieces of paper if you want to avoid printing costs. It saves a lot of time just having the word lists all organized for you, even if you don't use all of the printables.

YES! You'll get my ongoing support and guidance via email or when you ask questions in the comments area inside the online course platform.

The activities develop pre-reading and early reading skills so that your child can read decodable books for emergent readers.

Your child will develop phonemic awareness (including segmenting and blending), letter-sound correspondence for all 40+ sounds in the English language, and the encoding and decoding skills needed to write and read using basic and advanced phonics.

Although The Playful Path To Reading isn't a spelling program, there's an activity in Step 4 that introduces different ways to spell some common phonemes.

You'll also get a bonus module that covers everything you need to know to teach your child handwriting the Montessori way.

YES! The materials and activities in this phonics program are based on Lisa Adele's Montessori training (Association Montessori Internationale / AMI) and her years of experience as a Montessori teacher of children 3 to 6 years old at an accredited Montessori school in Canada.

Many parents who have already joined The Playful Path to Reading are bilingual or trilingual, and English is not their first language.

If you're feeling unsure about teaching your child to read in English because it isn't your first language, then that's all the more reason to invest in this phonics program and educate yourself so you can better support your child at home.

As long as the other language is "alphabetic" (speech sounds are represented by letter symbols), then you can follow the same steps to teach reading.

You will need to adapt the use of the printables because the pictures represent words that will likely start with a beginning sound that's different in your language, and your language may have more or different speech sounds compared with English.

For reading practice, you will need to follow the examples provided in English to create your own word lists, phrases and sentences in your language.

Some parents who've invested in this phonics program have said they felt excited and hopeful when they joined and they also reported some lingering doubts about their capacity to finish the course after buying it.

But, they decided to jump in anyways because being able to better support their children with reading was more important to them than their concerns about sticking with it.

The Playful Path To Reading offers a shortcut that takes away all of the guesswork with teaching reading at home.

You'll get a step-by-step plan that's really easy to follow. Plus, you'll get emails that check in on you so you can share how it's going. At any time you can ask questions and get encouragement.

Most of the video lessons are under 10 minutes, and the training is entirely self-paced.

If you commit to the process, it will work!