Essential Phonics for Everyone

Learn How to Help Struggling Readers!

Would you like the skills and confidence to walk into any classroom, ready to help a student learn to read?

We’ve got you covered.

LearnUp’s Essential Phonics provides foundational knowledge and practical strategies to support emerging and struggling readers. Whether you’re a volunteer, paraprofessional, youth worker, caregiver, or anyone eager to make a difference, you’ll gain the tools to step in with confidence from the start.

This Training Is

  • Practical – Learn the most important phonics concepts and how to teach them in simple, effective ways.
  • Evidence-aligned – Grounded in the Science of Reading and best practices in structured literacy.
  • Empowering – Leave with a clear lesson plan, ready-to-use activities, and the know-how to help students make rapid reading progress.
  • Suitable for low-level readers – Learn to teach 10 foundational phonics concepts every reader needs to know.
Tutor and student

Hear from the LearnUp Executive Director on the benefits of our Essential Phonics training.

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What Is In the Course

  • Self-paced Course: 5 hours of online, self-paced video content
  • Manual: Printable manual and structured lesson plans, along with links to online tools and videos
  • Lots of Examples: Tutor-led examples and recordings of live lessons in action
  • Aligned Book Recommendations: Decodable and aligned book recommendations, plus compatible materials
  • Certificate of Completion: Upon course completion you will receive an official certificate.

What You Will Gain

  • The 10 essential structured phonics concepts every child needs
  • How reading development works-from sounds to decoding
  • Key signs that a student may need more targeted support
  • How to use the Essential Phonics lesson plan to teach phonics effectively
  • The role of phonics in learning to read
Tutor and student
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No teaching experience needed – just a desire to help and a willingness to learn!
“LearnUp is so efficient – they get the best results while also being the least time intensive and costly. Other programs wanted our son to commit 2-3 hours a day for several months, which would have been much more expensive and difficult to schedule.”
– Russell H., LearnUp Parent

Program Impact

On average, LearnUp students doubled their reading fluency and jumped 2-3 reading grade levels in around 60 hours of tutoring.

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LearnUp books are exciting adventures that align to our structured phonics program. Our books can be used with other phonics programs. There is a book series for every level and age of learner.

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