THE PRINT RICH HOME
Paper on the table, books within reach, and a home where reading and writing feel normal.
A 13 minute video workshop and the printables that go with it, for setting up your home so reading and writing are a normal, useful, joyful part of real life.
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"How did your boys teach themselves to read?"
People ask me this a lot. They really didn't (sorrrry!!). They were taught all along, through games and conversations and read alouds, in a house where books and paper and pencils are within reach and actually USED.
That house part matters more than most people think. Not a classroom setup, not flash cards on every wall, and no aesthetic sensory trays required (unless they bring you joy, in which case go for it).
Just a lived-in family home where print is close, ordinary and worth reaching for.
A short workshop and a few gentle tools
The Print Rich Home is a 13 minute video where I talk you through books, materials, reference tools and games, and how to make each one part of everyday life instead of something saved for "learning time". Then the printables help you notice what's already working in your home and pick one or two small things to add.
Watch
13 minutes, in your own time.
Notice
Walk through your home with the guide and see what's already there.
Add one thing
Paper and working pencils within reach is a great start.
Everything you need to make print part of home
- The video workshop (13 minutes): books, materials, reference tools and games, and how to make each one part of real life
- The Print Rich Environments Guide: a gentle checklist that walks through your whole home, your reading space, your writing area, play spaces, the kitchen, and out and about
- Print Rich Environment Materials: the everyday things that invite reading and writing (clipboards, envelopes, sticky notes, a mini whiteboard...) and the kinds of books worth having around, with a line on what each one is good for
- The Family Read Aloud Journal: a page for each book you finish together, filled in when you feel like it
- My Word Dictionary
- The Alphabet Reference Card: letters, numbers, punctuation and a handful of little words, so when your child wants to write something and doesn't want to ask for help, they don't HAVE to
Your home won't teach reading on its own
Reading needs to be taught, explicitly and consistently, and I'll never stop saying it.
What your home CAN do is make books and writing feel close, ordinary and worth reaching for. So when your child is learning to read and write, there are real reasons to do it, all around them.
And the most important part of a print rich home isn't a resource at all. It's you, being seen reading, writing, and reaching for books.
Nothing in this workshop is a lesson. It's about what's within reach, what sits near what, and how to be part of it yourself without it becoming a demand.
This checklist isn't a standard to meet. It's an invitation to notice.
Is this right for your family?
- You've taken the pressure out of your homeschool and you're wondering what you can do for reading and writing that isn't a lesson
- Your child isn't reading yet, or already is (the video talks about both)
- You already have books and paper, and you'd like the thinking behind where things go and what to put near what
- You want something short you can actually finish
The Print Rich Home
- The 13 minute video workshop
- The Print Rich Environments Guide
- Print Rich Environment Materials
- The Family Read Aloud Journal
- My Word Dictionary
- The Alphabet Reference Card
Make reading normal at home.
Thirteen minutes, a few gentle tools, and a home where books and writing feel close, ordinary and worth reaching for.
P.S. Your home makes reading feel close. If you'd like the teaching itself, every sound and pattern in order and how to make it work in a home that looks nothing like a classroom, that's Teach Your Child to Read.
