Watch your struggling child build strong reading & spelling––at home.

In this 6 week live course, Cole Aansen will provide you with the skills and knowledge to change your child's life with literacy.


You'll no longer rely on teachers, tutors, or unproven worksheets that you download off the internet. You'll complete this live course, and walk away with a clear plan and strategy to take your child from rock-bottom self-esteem to a confident, independent learner.

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Your Roadmap to Teaching Life-Changing Literacy:

WEEK 1: Foundations of Literacy

Lay the groundwork for teaching multi-sensory structured literacy. Explore the scope of our work, the five-level phonics framework, and how the first two multi-sensory drills build automaticity from the start.

WEEK 2: Multi-Sensory Learning

We’ll explore how multi-sensory teaching truly comes to life. You’ll learn Levels 2 and 3 sounds, two more multi-sensory drills, and learn how they fit together into a simple, effective Warm-Up Sequence.

WEEK 3: Map Your Child's Path Forward

Discover how to pinpoint a learner’s exact starting point and measure progress. Learn Levels 4 and 5 sounds, practice diagnostic assessments, and refine your use of the drills to gather actionable data.

WEEK 4: Bridge The Gap Between Spelling and Reading.

Encoding to Decoding: Practice Sound-Tapping and decoding techniques in class, and learn to support students as they apply phonics knowledge to real words with the most impactful multi-sensory strategy you'll learn.

WEEK 5: From Friction to Fluency

Continue to strengthen decoding fluency through targeted practice, then learn to teach multisensory sight words effectively. Experience the connection between orthographic mapping and confident reading.

WEEK 6: Integration and Lesson Planning

Synthesize everything you’ve learned into effective lesson plans for different instructional contexts. Practice adapting to varied student needs, and receive individualized support during the final Q&A session.

This course will take you from this...

  • Feeling like you've tried EVERYTHING, yet there has been little progress.

  • Reading and watching everything you can find about dyslexia, but still not knowing how to help your child or where to even start.

  • Feeling like your child's school or homeschool program does not offer enough support.

  • Being frustrated with printing random worksheets off the internet and hoping they will make a meaningful difference.

  • Watching your child fall through the cracks...

To this...

  • You now understand the scope of the task and what it really takes to teach some to read and spell with confidence.

  • You know how to assess them to pinpoint where to start: their baseline, which gaps to fill, and how to proceed with brand-new material, as well as how to re-assess for growth.

  • You have an entire arsenal of game-changing strategies and a plan to implement them and adapt them to your learner.

  • You have the entire path forward charted for the next few years, with adaptable ways to support them as school gets more challenging in middle and highschool.

Tuition: $600 for 12 hours of live instruction

In 6 live, impactful 2-hour sessions, you will learn how to transform your child's relationship with reading, learning, and themself.

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Parents: Empower your child at home

Your child is lucky to have you. You, a motivated parent or family member who are here, seeking a solution to change your child's life for the better when they have been struggling for so long.

Here's the truth: Effective training for teaching reading and spelling at home, especially to older learners, is difficult to find. Gatekeeping of hands-on strategies that work is common, and the internet provides scattered activities with little structure.

Parents of older struggling readers may have also found that many of the printable materials online are too "kiddie" for their child, who may be an adolescent who still needs foundational skills.

It feels like you've tried everything.

You've exhausted every printable and reading hack you've found online; tried the kiddie books even though they were not ideal for your child, and now they really don't want to work on reading.

You've come this far, and you're in luck: We've got the plan, strategies that work, and tools, and our mission is to make sure you're confident using them.

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Parent Perspectives

  • "I felt lost at what to do to help them. They did get more help with an IEP, but it wasn't enough. Before, they were embarrassed and didn't want to read. Now, they are excited to read, and there are no more arguments about doing homework."

    – Grandmother of dyslexic twins, age 12

  • "My daughter could not read before she started multi-sensory literacy. Even with special ed intervention since kindergarten she was unable to read. She was denied support from several local resources due to her struggles being "too complicated." Nothing I tried worked. I was watching my child fall through the cracks. It was heartbreaking. Now, she has more confidence in reading and writing. It has been wonderful to watch her learn and grow."

    – Mother of a 10-year-old learner

  • "His reading scores have improved since he started, and wants to read more. He was on the verge of being held back a grade because of his reading, and now he is much more confident in his abilities after OG than he was before. I'm not sure what we would have done without it."

    – Father of a 10-year-old learner

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Frequently Asked Questions

FAQs

Are the sessions recorded?

Yes, each session is recorded. You will have access to each session within 24 hours of the live meeting. You will have lifetime access following the completion of the course, too.

When does it start?

6 Thursday evenings: The session runs according to the following timezones:

• 8:30 - 10:30 PM EST
• 7:30 - 9:30 PM CST
• 6:30 - 8:30 PM MST
• 5:30 - 7:30 PM PST

COURSE DATES:

Thursday, October 16th - Thursday, November 20th, 2025

How much does it cost?

Tuition is $600 for six weeks of live virtual instruction.

For comparison, one hour of certified literacy intervention costs upwards of $75/hour for experienced practitioners. A minimum of two sessions per week over 2-3 years looks like thousands of dollars in tutoring fees!

Do you offer a payment plan?

Yes, to pay in installments, click here.

Financial Aid Scholarship for Families

We reserve spots in each cohort for families who need financial assistance. If the $600 tuition is a barrier to getting your child the help they need, please apply for reduced tuition. We're here to help you help you and your child.

Email: cole@aansenliteracy.com

What age is this for?

The true power of structured literacy is that it is adaptable to the learner. Struggling readers and spellers tend to need the same foundational lessons, but some are eight and some are eighteen. I've taught the same strategies to a 36-year-old NFL player as I have to elementary students, and it works, because flexibility is part of why this approach quite literally changes lives.

Is this course right for me?

Life-Changing Literacy is for family members and educators who are currently working with someone on reading and spelling or who will be, either at home or in the classroom.

Some families choose to seek a private tutor for reading intervention, while others would prefer to support their child themselves. Private tutoring often goes on for years, because truly supporting someone in literacy takes time, and there is not a quick fix.

Our purpose for creating Life-Changing Literacy was to give families the option to provide interventionist-level support at home.

Similarly, we are here to support educators who are motivated to set their students up for success. Some teachers are here to add to their current classroom curriculum. Others seek a career change from teaching a full class to private tutoring. Regardless of your goals, we are here to support you.

Will I receive a certificate of completion?

Yes, you will receive a digital certificate after completing all parts of the course to show that you have put in the work and finished successfully.

Do I need anything to take this course?

Yes, you will need:

• Our Phonics Sound Cards

• A computer is recommended, but a tablet or phone will also work for viewing the content

• A short list of materials provided upon enrollment

• You may also wish to have a printer, though PDFs can also be downloaded and viewed on a device.

Overall, we mainly need a device, the Sound Cards, some basic study tools, and an open mind!

Is this taught in person or online?

This is a live, virtual course taught with video conferencing softward.

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Hey, I'm Cole!

Cole Aansen, M.Ed.
Founder of Aansen Literacy

M.Ed., Children’s Literature & Literacies
University of Glasgow

B.S., Linguistics
Northeastern University

  • Certified Orton-Gillingham Literacy Interventionist
  • 4,500+ hours of 1:1 dyslexia intervention
  • Montessori-educated from ages 3.5–17