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Early Literacy Play Groups
Early Literacy Playgroups with Dr. Deanna
Join Dr. Deanna for joyful, play-based early literacy groups designed to help children ages 3–6 build strong reading foundations through hands-on learning! Each session blends interactive stories, sensory play, and engaging phonics activities that support early reading skills in a developmentally appropriate way. Parents gain simple, effective strategies to use at home—helping children grow confident, joyful, and ready to read!
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Family Literacy Coaching
Empower your family with the tools and confidence to support your child’s reading journey! In Family Literacy Coaching sessions, Dr. Deanna partners with parents to create personalized reading plans that fit your child’s age, skill level, and learning style. You’ll learn practical, play-based strategies to use at home—turning everyday moments into opportunities for literacy growth. Build connection, confidence, and a lifelong love of reading together!
- Early Literacy Playgroups
- Expert in the area of twice-exceptional, gifted, and students with learning disabilities
- Literacy Coach for Families, Co-ops, Charters, and Learning Pods
- Student-focused approach to meet charter school requirements
Dr. Deanna Westedt is helping parents and organizations maximize learning time to bring out children’s full potential. She tackles the most common and difficult challenges of learning to read, drawing from both personal homeschool experience and blending that with developmental and learning theory. Her unique understanding of the homeschool lifestyle combined with her research into scaffolding learning for all kinds of learners, including those with learning disabilities and giftedness, makes her guidance second to none!
She walks alongside families and homeschooling groups to provide them with solutions balanced with a lens of compassion and flexibility. Sharing strategies developed in her own home as she taught her two boys, her passion is to provide these tools to families for learning success!
For co-ops, charters, and other organizations, bring Dr. Westedt’s knowledge and insight through the learning environment that works best for you: as keynote speaker, in-service class, training workshop, or BITTM mini event. She can join you in-person or online.
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What Finland Gets Right About Education
My Top Take-Aways as a Curriculum Expert If I told you there was a method of education with outcomes of 100% literacy, wouldn’t you want to know what it is? And if I told you it currently exists in the word and is getting those literacy rates and a 95% graduation rate, wouldn’t you want…
How to Get Your Child Ready to Read: 3 Ways to Fit Word Play in Your Day!
I remember the overwhelming feeling of having a newborn baby and realizing how much of a blank little slate he was! Up until that point, most of my experience with children was of the 5 and up set, as I had been teaching for several years at that point. Fortunately, I quickly learned that children’s…
Finding Your Homeschool Groove After the Holidays!
Getting started on anything can be just about the hardest thing out there, amiright?! It was true in elementary school whenever faced with a clean sheet of Steno notebook paper (crispness, be darned!) and it still stands the test of time today all too often. What can be even harder is picking up the momentum…
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