The Indy Lab

Playful Literacy is a play-based reading readiness class for preschoolers and kindergarteners that uses movement and games to teach pre-literacy skills. Students will learn letter identification, rhyming, syllable segmentation and sound manipulation through whole body movements that make meaningful connections between sounds and letters. Well-known reading readiness programs like Sounds-in-Motion and the Whole-Body Listening Bear will be implemented. 

Kids will engage in play-based games, arts and crafts and movement activities like Sound Trivia and Pin the Tail on the Sound with the end goal of learning to blend phonemes to read simple words! The curriculum drives a dynamic experience to get kids motivated to read and instill a love of learning. Classes are led by reading specialists and speech- language pathologists with master’s degrees in language development and training in highly effective reading methods like Orton-Gillingham. The teacher to student ratio of 1:5 ensures classes focus on learning outcomes while having fun. All classes come with an e-book full of activities to try at home!