Literacy Read and Write
Build your child’s confidence and equip them with the tools they need to read, write and thrive at school with our step by step, high-quality, fun & engaging literacy program.
Literacy is essential for life-long learning, communication and employment. It is vital for children to have solid literacy skills in place in order to feel confident when tackling school work and to achieve success in learning and in life.
Is your child struggling with the basics of literacy at school?
Are you concerned that they can't read easily yet?
Does your child find letter recognition/alphabet knowledge challenging?
Is there a diagnosed learning difficulty, hearing or pronunciation problem?
Do you worry that they have fallen behind their peers at school?
Can they distinguish between similar looking letters, like b/d, or m/w?
Does your child struggle to read independently or complain about going to school?
Are you worried that their handwriting is poorly formed?
Is your child learning English as a second language, and needs help with literacy?
If any of these questions or similar concerns play on your mind, then our Literacy Read and Write program could just be what you and your child need to feel confident and excited at the prospect of thriving at school.
This course is also perfect for:
• Children who are being home-schooled
• Professionals who want to teach children how to read and write with confidence
• ESL students
Through face to face training workshops, Vicki has taught thousands of parents, plus dozens of teachers and speech pathologists how to use her methods and benefit from her literacy expertise. She has also taught many ESL students of all ages how to read and write confidently in English.
Building your child's literacy skills and confidence
Our step by step, fun and engaging, systematic literacy program builds confidence by equipping children with the following skills they need to thrive during their primary years at school:
• Phonics (sound to letter correspondence)
• Handwriting (automatic letter formation, fine motor skills)
• Blending (word attack, sequencing, reading)
• Sight words (automatic recognition)
• Reading comprehension (understanding stories)
• Spelling rules (assists reading accuracy)
Each session contains consistent components and builds sequentially, allowing you and your child to practise as much as required, in order to feel confident before moving on to the next session.
The Language Tree helps you to create a fun, inclusive, nurturing and multi-sensory learning environment for your child, with the added bonus that you will be actively participating in your child’s learning journey and all from the comfort of your own home! It's important to note that for reading mastery, certain pathways in the brain (auditory, visual and kinaesthetic) need stimulating daily before automatic reading and writing can occur. This program is ideal for building those pathways and skills.
There are 10 sessions in the program.
Each session contains six instructional videos demonstrating how to carry out the activities as well as explaining which skill is being developed.
These videos are accompanied by comprehensive, easy to follow activity plans, instruction sheets, worksheets and information sheets for you to download and use.
All the teaching materials you need are included in the program. Extra support is also available in the form of Zoom sessions with Vicki (see enrolment options below).
By mail: You will also receive a pack of beautifully designed, colour, durable phonics Sound Cards that are unique to this course, and will fast-track your child's literacy skills.
DISCLAIMER: This course is intended to be used to teach children how to read and write, by giving parents a clear and logical method to support their child at school. It does not replace assessment, diagnosis or treatment from a qualified speech and language pathologist/therapist. If a parent is concerned about a persistent speech, language or literacy issue, they should seek face to face professional guidance.
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Hello, I'm Vicki, a qualified speech & language pathologist/therapist.
I have over 30 years of professional experience working with children and their parents.
I am the founder and proprietor of The Language Tree, a speech, language and literacy clinic based in Sydney, Australia www.thelanguagetree.com.au.
Children who attend my clinics, typically make 12–18 months progress in their reading skills after 12–24 hours of direct therapy. This level of success is due to the strength of the TLT System® and also having a parent present in the therapy sessions to ensure they learn, consolidate, support and implement the method at home.
I have adapted the TLT System® into two online programs (Literacy Fun-da-men-tools and Literacy Read and Write) so that those who cannot attend the clinic can still benefit from my literacy expertise.
I specialise in treating children with literacy, language and articulation disorders and I am also a published author. Along with two colleagues, I wrote "Total Phonology", a research based manual that stresses the importance of establishing phonological awareness skills at a pre-school level, in order to minimise literacy difficulties in the primary school years. This manual focuses on providing training to encourage parents to play in a guided and rewarding manner with their children at home. This manual became the foundation for our school readiness program in the clinic and its online sister program, Literacy Fun-da-men-tools.
I thoroughly enjoy working with children of all ages from pre-school to adolescence and provide a range of services in addition to direct 1:1 therapy, including home programs, master classes, holiday intensives, parent and teacher training workshops.
I have delighted in helping more than 4,000 children to read and write during the course of my rewarding career.
Families from all over Australia and overseas often bring their children to receive specialist literacy treatment at The Language Tree.
The Literacy Read and Write online program is designed to empower parents, teachers and speech pathologists to work actively with children in a step by step and engaging way. Over the last 20 years, I have developed the TLT System®, and eight years ago I began a voluntary, collaborative education project with Raw Impact, a Cambodian based charity www.rawimpact.org. I devoted time and clinical resources, adapting the TLT System® to train teachers and children in Cambodian village schools to speak, read and write English.
I am qualified in Integrated Listening Systems (iLs), The Spalding Method®, parent-child interaction and completed the Defeat Autism Now (DAN) Practitioner training.
Featuring 60 activity demonstration videos, dozens of beautiful PDF course materials and bonus content!
StartSession 1: All Materials to Print
StartSession 1: Introduction (1:33)
StartActivity 1: Sound Cards. Saying Sound Cards 1–10 (13:14)
StartActivity 2: Letter Formation. Writing Sound Cards 1–10 (12:35)
PreviewActivity 3: Blending. Blending Sound Cards 1–10 (1:14)
StartActivity 4: Using Sound Cards. Word to Picture Match (0:50)
StartActivity 5: Coding Sound Cards. Number Sound Cards a/o/g/ (1:22)
PreviewActivity 6: Daily Game. Sound Card Race (0:49)
StartSession 2: All Materials to Print
StartSession 2: Introduction (1:10)
PreviewActivity 1: Sound Cards. Saying Sound Cards 11–16 (5:07)
PreviewActivity 2: Letter Formation. Writing Sound Cards 11–16 (3:46)
StartActivity 3: Blending. Blending Sound Cards 1–16 (1:15)
PreviewActivity 4: Using Sound Cards. Word to Picture Match (0:49)
PreviewActivity 5: Coding Sound Cards. Number Sound Cards a/o/s/c/ (1:22)
StartActivity 6: Daily Game. Make Aliens (0:48)
What people are saying about Vicki
"I can honestly say that for those of you who choose to participate in any of the Language Tree’s online programs such as Literacy Read and Write or Literacy Fun-da-men-tools, are choosing to give your children a gift that is priceless.
We call Vicki our fairy godmother, because our journey with the Language Tree has been nothing short of magical.
In reality, her magic comes from a lifetime of work. Vicki has accrued knowledge of language and literacy and collated and developed it, to create programs that simply work! Driven by her love of children and wanting to give something incredibly special back, she has achieved just that with the quality of her methods.
Her programs are rewarding, supportive, systematic, gentle on the children and build confidence and knowledge in abundance.
I’ve discovered through my time at the Language Tree that children simply do not need to struggle. Vicki's methods work!
My eldest child, who is currently thriving at school, would not naturally be in the top literacy group. He is simply a product of the eduction he has received from both Literacy Fun-da-men-tools and Literacy Read and Write. These programs provide building blocks for any child to understand language and literacy. It really is a magical process to witness and it makes me so happy to watch my child shine, succeed and ooze confidence in his class.
I will be running my younger children through Vicki's programs, even those without language difficulties, because it is such a great start to their education and they are fantastic tools to prime my kids brains' for reading and beyond."
Lisa, Sydney, Australia
"When I was a child, there was no formal method for learning the rules of English, other than "i before e except after c". What I've seen in this course from The Language Tree, is that Vicki’s designed all these magic things, for example, spelling rules for reading pronunciation, such as when a “c says s" as in city and a "g says j” as in gentle.
Vicki uses so many cool things to help children who have memory issues, such as a colour code, dots and underlining on the Sound Cards; personally I feel this is the genius part of her method! The Sound Cards are things that really wowed me!
They have helped my son recall his phonics with such ease, enabling him to read quickly and with confidence. Vicki’s method gives children tools to really work things out. The more tools we give our child to independently work things out, the better it is for them. Giving kids the gift of reading allows them to source so much information on their own and learn about things they're interested in.
It’s been such joy seeing my son going to bed at night and refusing to switch off the light so he can finish his book! A kid who can read a book will never get bored, and as my grandma liked to remind me, "if you've got a book you'll never be lonely!"
I can never thank you enough Vicki."
Robert, Sydney, Australia
"In short, Vicki's brilliant! Her program is brilliant and if you want to know more, read on . . .
I saw Vicki as a young adult for my own dyslexia when I wanted to get back into studying many years after leaving school. She taught me so much and gave me such confidence, but I never knew that 18 years later, I'd meet her again to help my little boy!
She still had exactly the same wonderful energy and passion for her profession, but obviously more years of experience; she is so skilled, so patient, so kind and clever.
Vicki’s methods are clear and engaging and even my younger daughter, who was only 3 years old at the time, would watch my son's sessions, and try to copy the Sound Cards.
My son now reads with confidence and joy, but needs help to write stories, so I took him back to Vicki's clinic for her story writing program in the recent Christmas holidays and his writing and expression is now moving to the next level.
Literacy has not been easy for him, just as it was a major struggle for me (I didn't read till I was 9 yrs old) but with Vicki by our side, we feel incredibly supported. Best of all, Vicki is brilliant at explaining the complexities of the English language with clarity and simplicity, so finally, I now understand things that were so baffling to me when I was growing up, such as silent letters, spelling rules and sound patterns.
Taking my son to see Vicki in the clinic, was a weekly financial commitment, as it is with any allied health professional (occupational therapist, chiropractor, etc), but how can you put a price on your child's literacy, learning and future?
Vicki shares in the triumphs my son makes and even with many decades in practice behind her, the thrill and excitement she gets for him when she sees the skills knitting together in his brain, is palpable.
When Vicki made her brilliant techniques available as the Literacy Read and Write online program, I jumped at the chance to use it with my younger daughter, as I still want to benefit from Vicki's expertise.
The online program costs much less than seeing Vicki in the clinic, but loses nothing in quality or value as her methods transfer beautifully to an online format.
Her online program is so fabulous, it's a major refresher for me - it has videos of Vicki in action and she clearly explains everything I learnt from her with my son a few years ago. I love doing Vicki's program online with my daughter, because we can replay the videos and absorb it at our own pace. We never tire of her friendly and warm manner.
If you are wondering how best to help your child learn to read and write, look no further.
As a person with dyslexia myself, I can highly recommend you buy this online program and give your child the wonderful gift of reading, opening their minds to the world of possibilities that await inside every book!"
Janice, Sydney, Australia
"Last year I had a feeling that my son was falling behind in his reading and writing. Despite several conversations with his teacher, I was assured that all was ok, but I still had a feeling that he was not where he needed to be at the end of Kindy. I took him to see Vicki and he was certainly behind and in need of extra help.
It was evident after the first therapy session that Vicki's program was exactly what he needed. The "sound cards" opened up a whole new world that gave him the tools to break down words and sounds. His reading improved immediately! Teaching him all the different sounds for various letters made it very easy for him to decode words.
His reading improved so quickly and it was quite emotional to witness, as I knew he needed help, but I personally didn’t have the tools or skills, beyond basic phonics, to assist him. Being included in his sessions, I became very knowledgeable and was able to help him with his reading. We also worked on his handwriting. This has also been another area that I can’t thank Vicki enough for! He is now an efficient writer, his writing is neat thanks to the instructions on letter formation which are so consistent and clear.
Vicki is amazing at how she teaches and encourages my son’s writing and reading to progress. She is always positive and able to pinpoint the areas we need to work on next or master a little further.
The methods make reading and writing such a natural progression. It gives children the tools to be independent readers and decode the often very tricky English language in a very organised and fun way. I can see how all children would benefit from learning to read this way. My son has gone from strength to to strength. He is now more confident at reading and writing. I no longer feel stressed trying to work out how best to teach him, as I have the support and tools to ensure he continues to enjoy literacy. As a graphic designer, I really appreciate the quality and clear layout of the sound cards and all the wonderful materials, Vicki's created such as the handwriting and blending sheets.
I wish all kids had access to this incredible program! I get so frustrated when I go into school and do reading groups with my son's class, as none of them have a clue about how to tackle reading. I literally want to buy this program for every child as Vicki's method is amazing!"
Kathryn, Sydney, Australia