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Get Ready to Read with Backyard Bookworms

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This program will help your preschooler spring into reading by combining fun gross motor multisensory activities with developmentally appropriate foundational concepts that are important to become successful readers.


More Information
  • While playing activities in the gym or outside this program will integrate sounds and the segmentation of sounds that are important learn to read.
  • Research shows that children with strong phonological and phonemic awareness are more successful readers.
  • In the PS Level One Class, your child will be introduced to the 7 phonemic awareness skills, manipulation of sounds by deleting and replacing different sounds, and strengthen rhyming.
  • (Important to note that your child does not need to be able to recognize the letters of the alphabet.)

About the Instructor
Kim MacGillivray is an experienced teacher who has taught students with various types of learning styles. She has taught many multisensory phonetic programs such as Wilson Reading System and Barton Reading and Spelling program.

Schedule Change for Session 1
Please note that class will not run on Friday, April 3 as it is Good Friday. (This was not changed in the brochure before it went to print.)

* Adjustments and discounts will be applied during checkout if applicable. *

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