About - Loving Literacy with Miss Brittany

Meet your literacy enthusiast! Aka, your reading coach.

I believe that struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade are WILDLY CAPABLE of developing strong literacy skills if we start intervention right now.

Parents of struggling readers in kindergarten and first grade don’t know the gravity of the crossroads they are at with a young struggling reader.

They are practically babies, right?! They have so much time, right?! Let’s just WAIT. AND. SEE. (ugh, how I wish those statements were true.) Those schools of thought are so harmful to K-1 readers.

I wish parents knew that this window of time is absolutely critical.

I’m here to make sure at-risk kids are set on the path to success and not the (all too popular) path of “they just aren’t ready yet.”

You know your child is so bright and talented. (Trust me, I do too.) They are full of life in all of the best ways and their strengths are too many to count.

But reading? Ugh. Why is it so hard?! You lay awake at night thinking, “Why can’t they just get those letters like so and so does?!” You feel like you are failing them because you aren’t a trained teacher (news flash, I promise you aren’t failing them) and you worry what the future holds academically.

You just want them to catch up before they fall so far behind that it’s nearly impossible. (So do I!)

Well good news…you can relax because you just found your person. So nice to meet you! I am truly grateful that you landed here.

My name is Brittany Cornelius and I flip the script for kindergarten and first-grade students who are struggling with literacy skills by providing intensive and strategic learning sessions via Zoom.

Your struggling reader needs explicit and systematic phonics instruction rooted in the science of reading. They need skill-based interventions that are tailored to their exact weaknesses.

That’s where I come in with my multisensory, structured literacy approach and meet them right where they are. I have nine years of experience teaching kindergarten in an amazing public school district, a Masters degree in Literacy, and a passion that can’t be contained in any sort of title, driving me to learn more and more as the years go by.

I know that your time is scarce and you are spread thin.

You are spinning so many plates for your kids and you know something is about to drop.

Now you can hand over the reading plate to a person who has dedicated their career to JUST THAT. (Hello! Me!)

Imagine your child getting excited for their daily reading lesson and proudly showing off their new skills!

And you never have to even leave your house.

You can get your child logged into Zoom and then cook dinner while they work hard at the table nearby.

I have very limited availability because I don’t spread myself thin here. I keep it that way to make sure I can devote my best to each child I am teaching. If you are interested in working together, don’t wait to contact me!

“Miss Brittany is an amazing, loving, caring, creative, motivating and knowledgeable educator. An angel sent to our family at just the right time when we were undecided regarding our daughter’s future schooling.

Miss Brittany went above and beyond to make this work for us. Because our daughter has down syndrome, Miss Brittany researched to understand the way our daughter processes information and what teaching methods would work best to help her learn to read.

In less than a school year, she has our daughter recognizing letter names along with their sounds, blending sounds, and reading on her level.

We look forward to our time with Miss Brittany. She makes the time enjoyable and fun for our daughter! We know with Miss Brittany teaching our daughter, she will accomplish much.”

~B. Digg’s Family

In nine years of teaching kindergarten at a very high-performing school, I learned two important things.

#1) Literacy is my JAM.

It’s my heartbeat and I’m a total nerdy geek when it comes to everything I can learn about teaching kids to read. Y’all can have the crafts and STEM projects. Don’t get me wrong, I know the immense value of those things too, but it’s just not my natural love.

Loving Literacy with Miss Brittany was born out of my desire to teach your child to read. It’s that simple.

And #2) I couldn’t save everyone.

I wanted so much success for every one of my students and I knew exactly what those “lowest-of-the-low” readers needed but as hard as I tried, I couldn’t do enough. They needed one-on-one support that lasted longer than 14 seconds before their precious time slot of exactly 5 minutes was interrupted by one of their 26 classmates throwing a shoe across the room or throwing up on the carpet. (If it sounds crazy it’s because it is.)

My Master’s degree in literacy, hours and hours of additional training in structured literacy, or the list of grants/awards that my team and I won together would never change the fact that I was only one human teaching within the limitations of TIME.

You know who suffered the most? Those struggling readers (just like your child) who needed MORE time and MORE attention than their peers and it broke my heart to see.

So what do you say? Are you ready to get your child the kind of support they really need?