Every skill mapped
Early Childhood Reading on Aristotle is 22 skills across 6 units, each linked to the skills it builds on.
Features
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We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.
Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.
The curriculum
Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.
Sample curriculum
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Print and Alphabet Knowledge
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics and Decoding
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Early Childhood Reading tutoring curriculum22 skills across 6 units
Print and Alphabet Knowledge
How books and print work, plus the alphabet itself: naming letters and connecting each letter to the sound it makes. Topics: Print Awareness, Letters and Sounds.
Phonemic Awareness
Hearing and playing with the sounds inside spoken words, entirely oral at first. Topics: Rhyme, Syllables, and Word Play, Hearing Single Sounds, Taking Words Apart.
Phonics and Decoding
Using letter-sound knowledge to read written words, from the first sounded-out short-vowel words to bigger spelling patterns and the common irregular words readers meet everywhere. Topics: Reading First Words, Bigger Spelling Patterns.
Fluency
Moving from sounding out every word to smooth, accurate reading with natural pacing and expression, built through repeated and assisted reading of decodable text. Topics: Accurate Reading, Pace and Expression.
Vocabulary
Growing the bank of words a child understands and uses, first through talk and read-alouds, then by using pictures and context to work out new words. Topics: Everyday and Story Words, Figuring Out New Words.
Comprehension
Making meaning from stories and informational text, first by listening, then from text the child reads. Topics: Listening and Retelling, Thinking About Stories.
A few things you might wonder before getting started.
Aristotle's Early Childhood Reading course tracks 22 skills across 6 units, including Print and Alphabet Knowledge, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics and Decoding. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of Early Childhood Reading your child has mastered and what to teach next.
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