Welcome!

Thank you for joining us for LearnUp Centers' Kindergarten Reading Bootcamp. Putting this content online and making it available for a much-reduced price is one of the many silver linings of the global pandemic. We are excited to share our unique structured literacy program with educators, reading specialists, administrators, and parents who share our vision that reading is a gift every child deserves.

You are about to embark on a journey through the reading brain. Some of what you will learn has been known for over 100 years. Other parts were only discovered with the advent of the MRI machine. What is amazing is that what we were teaching back in 1998 was already ahead of the research on reading.  Recent neurological reading brain research has given us unprecedented insight into how to teach reading. It shows us what works and what doesn't. LearnUp's curriculum and teaching methodology fully embrace the science of reading.

We think you are in for a treat. Steve Tattum is a master teacher and is excited to share the theory, practice, and joy of teaching all learners to read. 

At the end of this training, you will be able to teach reading using the fastest, most effective structured literacy program on the market. On behalf of all the kids whose lives you will change because of the way you teach reading, thank you! It is a big job, but there is no one better than you to make it happen.

Why do we need to teach reading differently?

Our approach to teaching reading is steeped in the science of reading and our practical experience of teaching the most struggling readers to read. Learn more about why our programs work through this interview of Steve Tattum. Watch Dennis Worley’s Interview with Steve Tattum. 

What is Tattum Reading?       

Tattum Reading is a merger of systematic phonics, phonological processing, and whole language. Our objective is to help all students read above grade level in measures of word attack, fluency, and comprehension as quickly as possible.

What is Kindergarten Bootcamp?

The Kindergarten Bootcamp is a wonderful course that gives you all the basic phonics and literacy skills you need to teach a five year old to read and to be reading ready for any 1st-grade reading program.

• Learn how to teach all your students the literacy skills they need to become a successful reader.
• Learn how to teach consonants and short vowel sounds & advanced phonemic awareness.
• Learn how to use the most powerful reading technique called Pressure Release for reading out loud.
• Get access to the Kindergarten Bootcamp manual, curriculum, procedures, lessons and digital books and handouts.
• Get the skills you need to help teach all your kids to read.

Included in the course

• 6 Hours of presentations, explanations, and demonstrations
• Digital versions of the Kindergarten Bootcamp manual, digital chapter books, and handouts that can be used in the classroom

The objective of this course is to get you ready to teach any Kindergartner to read once you have completed the training. And here is what we mean by reading.

Our goal is for every child you teach is that s/he will be able to read and spell cvc words and read at 30-50 words per minute by the end of Kindergarten.

Dates and times

October 13-15, 2020 2:00-4:00 pm (PT)/5:00-7:00 pm (ET)

All sessions will be recorded and posted to this course site.

Each hour will cover one lesson. Once we have finished the live course, the course site will be updated and launched as a self-directed course.

Office Hours with Steve Tattum

As part of the enrollment package, you will have access to ongoing Office Hours with Steve Tattum. Look out for an email with the directions how to access these meetings and the links to the Zoom call.