Miss Anna's Class READS

Every parent wants their child to succeed in school. But let’s be honest: preschool and kindergarten options can be expensive, time-consuming, and sometimes… not as effective as we’d hope.

That’s why Miss Anna’s Class is changing the game for families everywhere.

This interactive, year-long online...

Starting to write is one of the most exciting and challenging parts of the pre-K and kindergarten journey. Before children can fill notebooks with stories, they need to master the fundamental skills of proper grip, controlled movement, and correct letter formation. This process takes practice—lots o...

Most aspects of phonemic awareness are learned and tested audibly. For instance, children must LISTEN to a word in order to figure out how many syllables it has. They have to LISTEN to a word to know what the beginning sound is. They have to LISTEN for the middle and ending sounds, as well. They ...

When Covid-19 hit and schools closed, my school also closed. I began to work on my goal of videoing an entire year's worth of preschool. 4 videos a week, about 25 minute videos, creating all of the worksheets, coloring pages, craft videos, etc. When the new school year began, schools opened, b...

To Whom It May Concern:

Children cannot just learn the letter sounds, decode letters and be long-term successful in reading and spelling. It seems like that is all it should take. However, studies show (and experience shows) that children must learn the relationship that sounds have to their wor...

Every once in a while I get a blank stare when I tell other educators that I teach my preschoolers to identify the letters ONLY by their sound at the beginning.  Some are annoyed. Some strongly disagree. This is WHY I do it: I am teaching 3, 4, and 5 year olds. My goal is to have them reading as ...