one small step a week.
Four short parts, one a week, then a live Q&A. Each part ends with a dark box called Your next step. Do that one step and nothing else.
The five-week path
Catch it, check it
Correcting isn't the only way children learn. Look and listen a little differently, in what your child says and writes, and choose your response instead of correcting on autopilot.
◷ Part 1 · 10 min read- The instinct to fix, and why it comes from caring
- Why a linguist looks at mistakes differently
- Validate, or correct, wait, ask
- Where to notice: meals, car rides, Post-it notes
Know where to listen
Each building block has its own kind of mix-up. Once you know what each one sounds like, you know where to listen, and you catch more.
◷ Part 2 · 12 min read- Sounds, symbols, words, sentences, with real examples
- Why this matters for school (recreated P2 listening questions)
- A one-minute “what am I saying?” game
- You don't need to sort perfectly
Wait for twice
What waiting looks like, told through a four-year-old, a rhyming lesson and one very confident mistake: “Ummi, bear and bottle rhyme!”
◷ Part 3 · 8 min read- Why exposure alone isn't enough
- What noticing the pattern gave her
- The one rule: once is cute, twice is a pattern
- Keep everything they write
Find it, talk it through
You've noticed a pattern. Now what? The last two moves of Notice, one small step into Practise, and what happened with that apostrophe.
◷ Part 4 · 15 min read- The full “look's good” story
- The same moves for a spelling pattern
- Notice, Practise, Name, Produce
- Three habits that feed the noticing
Live Q&A on Zoom
Bring one thing from your Noticing Record. We look at real examples together: which block it belongs to, and what you could do next.
● Live · recording yours- Send me one mix-up you noticed twice, before the call
- Your question gets answered
- Keep going, one pattern at a time
nothing you don't already have.
- About ten minutes a day, inside what you already do: meals, bedtime reading, the walk to school.
- A notebook or the notes app on your phone.
- A folder for your child's writing.
- One familiar book your child loves.