Raise children who love to read.
Personalized, evidence-based literacy assessments and instructional plans, whether you're homeschooling full-time or supporting your child's reading and writing at home alongside school or a tutor. Grounded in the Science of Reading and shaped by over 20 years in education.
Literacy Services for Homeschooling & School-Based Families
Whether you are just beginning to homeschool or navigating a specific learning challenge, Kelly offers practical, research-based guidance that fits your family.
Literacy Goal Setting & Individualized Programming
Partnering with families to co-create literacy goals, administer and analyze reading and writing assessments, and design bespoke, individualized programs that meet each child where they are while offering the challenges they need to soar.
Full-Circle Literacy Programming
Designing a full literacy program for your child, covering oral language, reading fundamentals, comprehension, and writing, grounded in Ontario's Right to Read expectations while honouring inquiry and the joy of reading.
Reading Assessment & Progress Monitoring
Providing diagnostic literacy assessments to pinpoint precisely where a child's gaps are, then developing targeted programming with regular check-ins to ensure instruction is working.
Evidence-Based Writing Instruction
Helping parents implement a writing program that carries instruction across all age levels and writing forms, including informational, persuasive, and narrative writing.
Inquiry-Based Learning Across Subjects
Designing inquiry-based learning across social studies, history, geography, science, and art, integrating math and language throughout, and helping families explore their communities through an approachable, step-by-step format built around each child's interests.
Resource Selection, Home Libraries & AI Coaching
Guidance on choosing high-quality, evidence-based resources across every subject area; building a rich, leveled home reading library on any budget; and using AI tools to create your own decodable passages, comprehension questions, writing prompts, and unit plans.
Parent Coaching
One-on-one sessions that equip you to teach phonics, guide writing, build comprehension, and sustain a literacy routine that fits your family's rhythm.
How We Work Together
For Every Kind of Family
Kelly's services are flexible enough to meet you exactly where you are, whether you're homeschooling one child, collaborating with a circle of homeschooling families, or supporting a child enrolled in traditional school who needs extra help at home.
Individual Family Consultations
Personalized support designed around your child, your homeschool rhythm, and your goals. One-on-one coaching, assessments, and programming tailored specifically for your family.
Small Groups & Co-ops
Planning sessions, workshops, and programming for groups of homeschooling families. Build shared literacy routines, coordinate resources, and create rich learning experiences for children learning alongside peers.
At-Home Support & Tutor Coordination
For families whose children attend traditional school but want additional, expert-guided support at home. Kelly provides a full literacy assessment, an individualized plan, and ongoing progress monitoring, whether you're working directly with your child or coordinating with their tutor.
"I believe reading and writing are the foundation of a curious, lifelong learner. When a child reads and writes with confidence, the world opens up to them."
Kelly Hughes
Ontario Certified Teacher
About Kelly
Meet Kelly
Kelly is a newly retired Ontario Certified Teacher with over 20 years in elementary education — as a classroom educator grounded in both structured literacy and inquiry-based learning, as a special education teacher, and as an instructional coach supporting teachers across the Peel District School Board.
During the last several years in the public system, she served as a Literacy Coach with the Peel District School Board (PDSB), supporting educators across multiple family-of-schools networks in building strong, evidence-based literacy instruction.
Kelly's work is grounded in the Science of Reading and structured literacy. Over the course of her career, she has led school-wide rollouts of reading and writing programs, guided schools in selecting effective literacy resources, and coached hundreds of teachers in building out full, effective literacy blocks.
She has also guest lectured in university-level reading courses for teachers and presented on the Science of Reading to vice-principals and principals across multiple school communities. Alongside this school-based work, she has developed and delivered numerous workshops to help families build literacy at home.
Across both formal school settings and family partnerships, Kelly is skilled at assessing a child's reading and writing progress and designing targeted instruction that closes gaps while continuing to challenge students who are ready for more.
Kelly has deep respect for families who recognize that a traditional school environment isn't the right fit, whether for their values or for their child's unique learning path. She partners with homeschooling families to bring research-based literacy practices into everyday home life, helping build sustainable systems for instruction, assessment, and ongoing growth.
Let's build your child's literacy story.
Schedule a complimentary 20-minute consultation to talk about your homeschool goals, your child's reading and writing journey, and how Kelly can support you.
Book a ConsultationOr email directly at khughesliteracy@gmail.com