You don't need more random activities. You need a roadmap.
Jumpstart Kinder!® is a play-based, science-backed program for ages 0–5.
✔ Just 3 short sessions a day
✔ No screens. No monthly fees.
✔ Purchase once. Use it with all your children.
Know exactly what to teach, when to teach it, and how each lesson builds your child's reading skills.
See how a simple 3-minute play routine helps children develop the skills they need to blend sounds, read simple words, and become confident readers.
What's Inside the Video
0:00 - Watch a 2.5 year old blend 3 and 4 letter words
0:27 - Meet L.T. Lyles, the expert behind the program
1:40 - Watch a 2.5 year old write, spell, and read a decodable book
2:57 - A look inside the program and the science behind it
Get a clearer picture of your child's current early literacy skills and discover the next steps to support their reading journey.
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“You’re a busy parent who wants to give your child a strong start but don’t have time to plan lessons.”
"You are overwhelmed by complicated homeschool kindergarten curriculums."
"You're worried about too much screen time, and want hands-on, play-based learning instead.”
“You want a simple, step‑by‑step way to teach your child to read, even if you’re not a teacher.”
“You want to be confident your child is truly ready for kindergarten, not just memorizing letters.”
"You want to protect your family’s native language while helping your child develop early English reading skills."
If this sounds like you, Jumpstart Kinder!® gives you the roadmap and the tools to follow it.
The good news? You don't need more random activities. You need to know which skills matter, when they develop, and how each step builds toward reading.
Many parents assume kindergarten is where children begin learning to read. But today's kindergarten classrooms are built on skills children begin developing long before their first day of school.
Before children can read words on a page, they need strong foundations in language, listening, vocabulary, and sound awareness.
The early years are a powerful time to build these skills—and the Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™ shows you exactly what to teach, when to teach it, and how each step leads toward confident reading.
Here's How Early Reading Skills are Built:
Every story you read, conversation you have, picture you discuss, and song you sing helps build the connections that support language, thinking, and future reading.
These everyday moments are the foundation for everything that comes next.
Kindergarten is not the beginning of literacy. It is the next step in the literacy journey.
Before children enter kindergarten, they begin developing the language and literacy skills that will support their success as readers.
When these foundations are built early, children enter kindergarten ready to learn, grow, and thrive as a reader.
Long before children learn to read words on a page, they must learn to hear the individual sounds inside spoken words.
This skill, called phonemic awareness, is one of the strongest predictors of later reading success.
Jumpstart Kinder!® helps parents build these foundational skills step by step—so they always know what comes next.
The Roadmap Tells You What’s Next. The Curriculum Shows You How to Teach It.
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™ gives you the step-by-step path to building early reading skills—from the earliest foundations through phonics, blending, and reading.
The Jumpstart Kinder!® Curriculum gives you everything you need to follow that path.
Micro-Doses of Learning for Maximum Results
Young children don't need long lessons to learn. They need short, focused practice that fits their natural attention span.
Jumpstart Kinder!® lessons take just 3–5 minutes at a time, 2–3 times a day, making it easy to build reading skills into your child's everyday routine.
Short, Scripted Lessons
Open‑and‑go lesson scripts tell you exactly what to say and do.
No lesson planning. No wondering what to teach.
Hands‑On, Multi‑Sensory Practice
Children learn by doing—tapping, tracing, blending, moving, and reading.
Flashcards, blending cards, ABC posters, and hands-on activities turn essential reading practice into engaging, screen-free play.
Real Reading with Decodable Books
Five phonics-based decodable books, classic nursery rhymes, and carefully selected early sight words give children opportunities to practice reading while building fluency, oral language, and vocabulary.
Learning Should Be an Adventure, Not a Chore
We believe learning should feel like an adventure—not a chore. By pairing the Science of Reading with the realities of modern parenting, we created a play-based approach that makes it simple to build early literacy skills at home.
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™ shows you what to teach and when to teach it. The Jumpstart Kinder!® Curriculum gives you the lessons, activities, and materials to make each step engaging, manageable, and meaningful.
Skip the Guessing Games
You will teach your child to read by introducing letters and their corresponding sounds together through interactive, hands-on practice.
As your child builds strong letter-sound connections, they learn to blend sounds into words—developing the skills they need to approach new words with increasing independence.
Built for Preschool Attention Spans
Young children don't need long lessons to learn. The Jumpstart Kinder!® kindergarten curriculum uses short, frequent micro-sessions that fit naturally into your day.
Just 3–5 minutes at a time, 2–3 times a day gives your child focused practice without asking them to sustain attention through long lessons—while creating consistent opportunities to build early literacy skills.
Multi-Sensory Play
We transform essential phonemic awareness and early reading practice into fast-paced, hands-on games and activities.
Your child taps, traces, blends, moves, and reads while actively participating in the learning process—making reading practice feel more like play and less like a lesson.
Everything You Need to Follow the Roadmap
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™ gives you the step-by-step path from early language and pre-reading foundations to phonics, word reading, fluency, and comprehension.
The Jumpstart Kinder!® Curriculum gives you the tools to follow that path.
From the earliest pre-reading skills through the foundations of kindergarten reading, the curriculum develops the five essential pillars of reading success: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—in a developmentally appropriate sequence.
And you get everything you need in one complete system: no teaching experience required, no monthly fees, and lifetime access you can use with all your children.
Open-and-Go Teaching Tools
Everything you need to teach your child to read, step-by-step. Word-for-word guidance makes it easy to know what to say and what to do. No teaching experience necessary.
What you get:
✨ Word-for-word Lesson Scripts
✨ Interactive Blending Cards
✨ Core Phonics Flashcards
✨ Multi-Sensory Activity Resources
Engaging Printables & Books
Beautifully designed, hands-on materials give your child opportunities to practice emerging reading skills through reading, movement, tracing, rhymes, and play.
What you get:
✨ 5 Decodable Books
✨ Giant ABC Wall Poster
✨ Classic Nursery Rhymes Pack
✨ Fine-Motor Tracing Sheets
Confidence-Building Rewards
Know what your child has learned, celebrate each milestone, and see when they're ready for the next step on the Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™.
What you get:
✨ Step-by-Step Progress Checks
✨ Printable Reward Stickers
✨ Official Completion Certificate
✨ Kindergarten Readiness Benchmarks
Real families share how Jumpstart Kinder helped them confidently support early reading at home.
"I was nervous about teaching reading myself, but Jumpstart Kinder's step-by step lessons made it simple. It's very easy to follow and my daughter, at 3 years old is now blending and reading words."
"My kindergartener was behind in reading and I didn't know where to start. Jumpstart Kinder is helping him catch up, while keeping learning fun. He's more confident and excited about reading now."
"Jumpstart Kinder completely transformed our lives! In just minutes a day, my 4 year old went from struggling with blending sounds to reading her first books with confidence! As a busy parent, this program gave me the tools I was looking for to help my daughter truly succeed."
“Before Jumpstart Kinder, I had no idea where to start or what my child should learn next. The Roadmap took all the guesswork out of it.”
Hi, I’m L.T. Lyles, M.Ed.
I’m a reading specialist with 30 years of experience in education, the creator of Jumpstart Kinder®, and the proud grandmother of the 2½-year-old in the video you just watched.
Over the years, I’ve helped thousands of children learn to read. Jumpstart Kinder® isn’t based on theory—it’s built from decades of classroom experience and the proven research behind the Science of Reading.
When my grandson was ready to begin learning, I created a simple, play-based approach that transformed that research into a step-by-step roadmap for teaching early reading skills at home. Following this approach, he built the foundations of reading and learned to blend sounds, read simple words, write, and spell at just 2½ years old.
I created Jumpstart Kinder® because parents want to help their children learn to read, but they often don’t know what to teach first, what comes next, or how each skill builds toward reading success.
My mission is to give families a clear roadmap—not more random activities—so they can confidently build the language and early literacy skills their children need before kindergarten.
Today, the Jumpstart Kinder® Early Reading Curriculum is helping families follow a proven, science of reading-aligned path to nurture confident readers from the very beginning.
Aligned with Kindergarten Benchmarks & Kindergarten Readiness Standards—So Your Child Walks Into School Prepared.
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap!® is designed to build the early reading and language skills children need as they approach kindergarten.
Our scope and sequence aligns with kindergarten benchmarks and readiness standards, giving you a clear picture of the skills your child is building along the way—and helping you feel confident that you're preparing them for the classroom ahead.
🔤 Saying Letters & Sounds: Recognize uppercase and lowercase letters, connect letters to their sounds, and understand how print works—from knowing where to start reading to following words across a page.
📈 First Words: Blend sounds together to read simple CVC words like cat and hop, while beginning to recognize common sight words they encounter frequently.
📖 Reading Simple Books: Move beyond practicing individual letters and sounds to applying those skills in decodable books—building confidence as your child reads words and simple stories independently.
✏️ Writing, Vocabulary, & Communication: Develop beginning spelling and writing skills, expand vocabulary, express ideas, and strengthen the listening comprehension children need to understand and follow classroom directions.
You Don't Have to Be a Teacher, to Teach Your Child to Read.
You don't need a degree in education, a homeschool background, or hours of lesson planning.
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap!® tells you what to teach and when to teach it. The Jumpstart Kinder!® Curriculum gives you simple, scripted lessons and everything you need to teach each step.
Just open, follow, and teach.
$147 One Time • No Subscription • Lifetime Access
We've done all the planning for you. Get the complete step-by-step Jumpstart Kinder!® Early Reading Curriculum, designed for busy families who want a clear, simple way to build early reading skills at home.
✨ Download once. Use it with all your children. ✨
✅ The Complete Phonics Curriculum: Simple, scripted lessons in a step-by-step sequence—no guesswork required.
✅ 5 Phonics-Based Decodable Readers: Give your child the confidence of reading their first simple books independently.
✅ Printable Learning Tools: Flashcards, blending cards, and multi-sensory games & activities for building essential early reading skills.
✅ Progress Trackers & Stickers: Track milestones and keep your child highly motivated while celebrating their progress.
🎁 Bonus School Readiness Play Pack: ABC Wall Poster, 10 interactive nursery rhymes, puppet cutouts, and alphabet tracing sheets.
One Purchase. Years of Learning.
Follow the Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap!®, use the curriculum at your child's pace, and keep it for every child in your family.
You've got questions. We've got answers.
You’re right to protect your child’s playtime. Jumpstart Kinder!® isn’t about forcing toddlers to sit at a desk or complete long worksheets. The early years are a powerful time to build the language, listening, vocabulary, sound awareness, and letter knowledge that support later reading. Jumpstart Kinder!® introduces these skills through short, playful, hands-on activities that are appropriate for your child’s age and stage. The goal isn’t to rush childhood—it’s to build the foundation for reading through play, so your child can grow into a confident reader one step at a time.
They don’t have to! Jumpstart Kinder!® was designed for the beautifully busy reality of life with toddlers and preschoolers. Instead of long lessons, the curriculum uses 3–5 minute micro-lessons, 2–3 times a day. These short learning moments can fit naturally into your daily routines—before breakfast, after lunch, during playtime, or whenever your child is ready to learn. The goal isn't to make your child sit still for a long lesson. It's to make early reading practice short, active, and fun enough to fit into childhood.
The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap!® is designed to build the foundational skills children need as they approach kindergarten. Our scope and sequence aligns with kindergarten benchmarks and readiness standards, while introducing skills in a developmentally appropriate progression from ages 0–5. Children build from early language, vocabulary, listening, and sound awareness to letter knowledge, letter-sound connections, blending, early word reading, and decodable books. The result is a clear path toward the skills your child will need to enter kindergarten ready to learn, participate, and grow as a reader.
Jumpstart Kinder!® teaches children how to read words—not simply recognize or guess them. Some early reading programs rely heavily on memorizing whole words, pictures, or context to help children identify a word. Jumpstart Kinder!® takes a different approach. Our systematic phonics approach teaches children to connect letters with sounds, blend those sounds together, and use those skills to decode unfamiliar words. That means your child isn't just memorizing the words they've been shown. They're building the skills to work out new words for themselves—and developing the foundation for confident, independent reading.
Absolutely! You don’t need a degree in education or teaching experience to use Jumpstart Kinder!® The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap!® takes the guesswork out of knowing what to teach next, while the Curriculum gives you simple, scripted, step-by-step lessons that are already planned for you. Just open your daily guide, follow the lesson, and enjoy the learning experience with your child. We’ve done the planning so you can focus on teaching, playing, and celebrating each new milestone together.
Not at all! You don’t need to print the entire Jumpstart Kinder!® Curriculum at once. Your lesson scripts can be viewed digitally, and you can simply print the hands-on resources you need as you move through the Roadmap. Many parents print what they need for the week and keep the rest digital. Print what you need, when you need it.
A Science of Reading-Aligned Approach for Building Strong Early Reading Foundations
Looking for a clear, systematic approach to early literacy for your preschool or elementary school? Jumpstart Kinder!® gives educators a structured scope and sequence, along with the lessons and tools needed to implement it.
For Daycares & Preschools:
Build the pre-reading foundations that support future reading through playful, multisensory activities, oral language development, phonemic awareness, and early phonics.
For Kindergarten & 1st Grade:
Use systematic phonics instruction, hands-on practice, decodable reading, and progress monitoring to strengthen foundational skills and provide targeted Tier 2 reading support.
Give your educators a clear path from pre-reading foundations to confident word reading with step-by-step lesson guidance, explicit phonics tools, blending cards, decodable books, and progress-monitoring resources.
Bring The Jumpstart Kinder Roadmap™ into your school—and give every educator a clear path for what to teach next.