Pathway
Sponsors 2 hours of service monthly ($3600.00/year)
Designed for sustained growth, giving clients multiple sessions to develop skill sets and work through challenges.
Sponsor Recognition & Benefits:
Logo Placement: Prominent logo placement on website homepage, digital collateral, and event slides.
Social Media Recognition: Multi-platform recognition highlighting your partnership, two branded posts each month
Two 1 hour Event Program, Consulting, or Coaching (Child or Adult facing) - to be used within one year of your sponsorship beginning date.
Pathway
Sponsors 2 hours of service yearly ($300.00/year)
Designed for sustained growth, giving clients multiple sessions to develop skill sets and work through challenges.
Sponsor Recognition & Benefits:
Logo Placement: Prominent logo placement on website homepage, digital collateral, and event slides.
Social Media Recognition: Multi-platform recognition highlighting your partnership, two branded posts each quarter
Pathway
Sponsors 2 hours of service quarterly ($1200.00/year)
Designed for sustained growth, giving clients multiple sessions to develop skill sets and work through challenges.
Sponsor Recognition & Benefits:
Logo Placement: Prominent logo placement on website homepage, digital collateral, and event slides.
Social Media Recognition: Multi-platform recognition highlighting your partnership, two branded posts each quarter
1 hour Event Program, Consulting, or Coaching (Child or Adult facing) - to be used within one year of your sponsorship beginning date.
Everyday Literacy Coaching helps busy parents turn daily routines into natural reading and writing opportunities—without adding extra tasks to an already packed schedule. Instead of forcing formal study sessions, this service shows parents how to seamlessly blend literacy into meal prep, errands, play, and bedtime routines, building confident readers and writers through stress-free micro-moments.
Time-Saving Integration: Turn regular activities—like reading grocery labels or dictating daily plans—into organic learning moments.
Zero Added Pressure: Eliminate the guilt of "finding time" by leveraging moments that are already happening.
Customized Family Strategies: Receive personalized, age-appropriate techniques tailored to your home environment and busy schedule.
Transform daily transitions and bring calm to your household with child-first visual routine cards. Designed specifically around how young minds learn, every detail—from line weight to color selection—is crafted strictly based on children's developmental needs and understanding.
Visual-First Clarity: Because the human brain processes visual information 60,000 times faster than text or audio, these clear visual cues eliminate non-compliance and reduce anxiety around daily transitions.
Boosts Writing Confidence: Intentionally simple, uncluttered drawings provide accessible shapes that children can easily recognize and copy, building early mark-making and writing confidence.
Peaceful Household Flow: Empowers children with ownership over their day, creating a seamless, cooperative rhythm for both adults and kids.
Product Details:
Format: Instant Printable PDF (Digital Download)
Includes: black and white morning routine cards
Best For: Humans, visuals can support understanding no matter how old, infant, toddler, preschool, middle school, highschool, spouses, and parents
Simple visual cards outperform over-designed graphics and digital screens because they build intrinsic self-regulation rather than triggering passive dopamine responses or visual fatigue.
Eliminates Visual Noise: Complex illustrations flood a child's visual cortex with non-essential details—shadows, busy backgrounds, and multiple colors. A child's brain must expend cognitive energy filtering out the extra information just to locate the core task. Simple line drawings deliver instant iconographic recognition without cognitive fatigue.
Builds Pre-Writing Confidence: Hyper-detailed digital art creates an internal barrier; children see art they can never recreate. Minimalist, hand-drawn shapes represent stroke patterns (circles, lines, curves) that children can easily replicate, boosting pre-writing skills and fine motor confidence.
Reduces Sensory Overload: Over-designed visual tools often overstimulate sensitive or neurodivergent children. Clean lines create a calm visual field, promoting a peaceful atmosphere during sensitive transition times.
Protects Daily Screen Time Budgets: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends zero screen time for children under 18–24 months (except video chatting) and no more than 1 hour per day of high-quality programming for children ages 2 to 5. Using digital routine apps consumes a child's limited screen allowance on mundane daily activities that should be grounded in their physical environment.
Fosters Executive Functioning vs. Machine-Driven Passive Response: Interactive screens, lights, and gamified timers perform the mental heavy lifting for the child. When a device flashes or plays a sound, the machine acts as the brain, training the child to react passively to external stimuli. Physical cards require children to physically move, touch, sequence, and process information, building authentic working memory, spatial awareness, and planning skills.
Has your child ever handed you a marker and said, "Can you write this for me?"
It’s a common moment for parents and educators —and often a sign building confidence is a must! When young children ask us to write for them, it’s an invitation to help them see themselves as capable, natural authors.
Join us for an interactive, hands-on 3-day series designed for children ages 4–7 and their family members. Together, we’ll explore how to make writing an exciting, low-stress part of everyday play and home life.
What You’ll Discover Together
Building Confident Writers: Learn how to turn self-doubt or hesitation into creative pride.
Writing during Natural Play: Discover simple, strategies to make drawing, scribbling, and word-building a natural part of independent or collaborative play.
Simple Home Habits: Walk away with easy routines and ideas to nurture writing naturally in your daily life.
Parent-Child Collaboration: Practice fun, supportive writing activities together during class so you can easily recreate them at home.
Class Details
New dates and times coming soon at Book Nerd
Why Attend?
Early childhood writing shouldn’t be about perfect spelling or neat handwriting—it's about expression, story-making, and confidence. Give your child the tools to share their unique voice with the world!
Ms. Tessa engages all age children (and adults) in a multi-sensory learning experience. She uses her knowledge of development and applies it all to sharing book time with children. Book Ms. Tessa to help the children in your care nurture their life long love for literacy and learning!
Through creative engagement, Tessa works to bring books to life for children, ensuring stories are not just heard, but experienced.
Event time includes book readings, story telling, and interactive songs. When services are booked, the mileage cost will be added to the total investment. (.72/mile, starting location is near the Medical Center, San Antonio)
30 minute Event Time
$125.00 + Mileage
Option 1: Combination of interactive songs, story telling, and two books
Option 2: Combination of interactive songs, story telling, 1 book, and loose parts play
Option 3: Combination of songs,, 1 book, story telling, and story writing (extra cost for materials needed)
60 minute Event Time
$190.00 + Mileage
Chose option 1, 2 or 3 from above; repeated for second group of children.
90 minute Event Time
$245.00 + Mileage
Chose option 1, 2 or 3 from above; repeated for second and third group of children.
120 minute Event Time
$290.00 + Mileage
Chose option 1, 2 or 3 from above; repeated for second, third and fourth group of children.
Is your child having trouble making decisions, making plans, following through with ideas/plans, persisting through challenges, etc? Do you wish your child had more of an imagination? Ms. Tessa creates learning plans that support these types of necessary life long skills and engages with children in ways that make them feel safe and confident!
Only child? Children not ‘getting along’ with others? Wondering if they know the skills that will help them feel confident and successful in school? Ms. Tessa is trained in Conflict Resolution and Early Language experiences to support your child’s first days at school. She will meet you at a park, decide a location with you together, or visit you in your home. Email play@taleswithtessa.org for a proposed cost based on your families needs.
Ms. Tessa uses developmentally responsive approach to supporting children in acquiring literacy skills needed to becoming a lover of literacy! She uses her 20 years of experience and training to build learning for each child that uses a specific equation of high interest and need that leads to not only new skills, but a yearn to use those skills!
Reading and writing are interconnected! A child who tells stories and feels their words are valuable may be more motivated to write those stories down! Mark making is skill that begins with confidence. Ms. Tessa coaches families on how to make mark making meaningful from the VERY beginning!
A targeted training for adults transforming typical teaching to triumphant tale-time. Stop focusing on drilling and start focusing on desire. Learn proven methods to spark curiosity and joy, guiding children to not only decode words but to passionately crave the next wonderful tale.
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