A Learn To Read Roadmap For Primary Teachers

If you are new here, welcome! I’m Lori-Anne. We are about to start a new school year (maybe you’ve already started) and if you are teaching in the younger years, teaching ‘how to read’ can be a daunting task. It was for me and based on mentoring other teachers, it is pretty common to feel the overwhelm. I think I can help you. After years of teaching this, I finally put it to paper. I created the Learn to Read Roadmap: a free, simple, step-by-step guide that walks you through exactly how reading develops and what to do at each stage.

First off, if you learn best from visuals, I created a video that complements this resource. In fact, I plan to do a series of videos on teaching reading over this next school year (2026-2027) and you are welcome to join me!

Inside this Learn to Read Roadmap, you’ll find:

• How reading actually works (decoding vs. understanding)
• What skills matter before reading even starts
• A clear approach to teaching letter sounds
• How to teach blending and introduce CVC words
• What to do when a reader gets stuck — letter reversals, guessing, weak blending, and more
• A short list of trusted resources to keep learning

This isn’t a list of cute activities. It’s the actual roadmap — the order things should happen in, and what to watch for along the way. I put it together based on years in the classroom and working with all kinds of learners, so you don’t have to guess your way through it. Literacy is multi-faceted. But there is a lot of research to support that successful readers are successful in life.

When you click the link or image below, you will be required to sign up with your email. This email list is strictly for the ‘teaching reading’ series (so it has an end date). I will put out 2-3 emails each month with actionable tips and tasks to help you with reading, whether it is in the classroom or you are homeschooling. For 10 years I was a home support teacher working alongside homeschool families, from 2006-2016.

If you have any questions, please feel free to forward them to me. Teaching reading is a long but rewarding experience. If you are looking for more blogposts on teaching reading, I have a couple on teaching sight words.

Happy Teaching,

Lori-Anne