Playful Literacy
A play-based reading class designed to teach structured literacy (phonemic awareness and phonics instruction) through fun, dynamic activities!
Offered After School
We will be launching a Kindergarten section of our Playful Literacy class by September 2023.
Children currently enrolled in Kindergarten should participate.
Classes start 9/11
Mondays at 4:30pm with Ms. Paula
Kindergarten
“His face when I tell him tomorrow is Playful Literacy class is everything. To see him interact is such a joy. In addition to being engaged and happy, he is clearly learning. I wish I could say thank you a million times and enroll him every day.” – Nicole H.
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
— Frederick Douglas
HIGH ENERGY
MOVEMENT
DYNAMIC
INNOVATIVE
The Indy Lab’s after school class, Playful Literacy, is an 8-week program for kids from pre-k to kindergarten to practice reading and writing skills through play, movement and sensory activities. We open up registration every semester after the 8-weeks ends for new students. Registration will open up for September 2023 by the summer.
“The Playful Literacy classes are incredibly engaging for my child. The instructors are excellent – they structure the classes in a productive way, while still making it very fun for the students. Highly recommended.” – Danica Y.
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“The instructor was incredible engaging with the kids. The class was very well structured and thoughtfully organized.” – Hamilton Y.
PRE-KINDERGARTEN
Self-Regulation
Children will learn what it means to regulate their internal energy by better understanding and communicating their scope of emotions and how to advocate for “body breaks", which help refocus small brains and re-engage learning!
Focused Attention
Children will be encouraged to maintain sustained attention for short, intensive intervals to exercise their concentration muscles. Children will learn how transitions between movement and table-top activities help the body and brain learn together.
Phonological Awareness
Children will be taught active listening skills, auditory processing and comprehension abilities that will help train their ears for reading! Listening is the most critical skill to learn how to read and write. A large portion of the pre-k curriculum focuses on learning how to listen carefully to stories and build endurance to listen to longer stories, which builds vocabulary and visualization skills.
“The teaching is geared toward children. The teacher is playful, positive and encouraging” – Heidi B.
KINDERGARTEN
Phonological Awareness
Children will be taught active listening skills, auditory processing and comprehension abilities that will help train their ears for reading! Listening is the most critical skill to learn how to read and write. A large portion of the pre-k curriculum focuses on learning how to listen carefully to stories and build endurance to listen to longer stories, which builds vocabulary and visualization skills.
Phonics
Children will be taught how to rhyme, segment syllables and begin identifying sounds, which facilitates letter identification, letter to sound and sound to letter correspondence as well as sound manipulation. Sounds will be taught via a play-based combination of Playful Literacy original activities and the Sounds-in-Motion program by Frances Santore, M.A. CCC-SLP.
Blending
Children will learn how to put learned sounds together to read! Children will begin decoding sounds in a very specific hierarchical structure. Once mastery is demonstrated, they will blend those sounds into simple syllable structures (consonant-vowel; vowel-consonant), which is the first step into reading!