Start with Sounds and Start Younger

Begin reading instruction with intervention, and all children will benefit.  When you start younger, teaching in small, logical, sequential steps, you will accelerate early readers and may very well prevent children with a predisposition to dyslexia from ever manifesting reading failure.  Traditional methods are failing many of our children.  Catch them before they struggle or fail.

All Ages and All Stages

Raising Robust Readers can be used for all ages.  It is simple, clear, child-friendly and free of textbook jargon.  Instruction can be easily adjusted and adapted for all ages and ability levels.  It is especially suited for children with dyslexia or Down syndrome.  When using developmentally appropriate strategies, everyone may benefit — from babies to adults, and from strong readers to struggling readers.

Research-Based + Fun-Filled Play

Raising Robust Readers incorporates the best practices of  the National Reading Panel, the National Right to Read Foundation  and the International Dyslexia Association.  This multi-sensory, explicit and systematic instruction of phonics is at the core of our program.  But, equally important, is the built-in, fun-filled play.  Play promotes brain growth and creates an additional pathway to learning.

Designed With You in Mind

Don't be fooled by the notion that only 'trained professionals' can teach this multi-sensory reading program.   We designed this course for parents, volunteers and all caring adults who want to help children learn to read. No more spending time teaching reading for 30 minutes across a table. When parents teach, and children learn, on the go wherever they go, the experience is easier, more enjoyable and more meaningful. The car, restaurants, supermarkets, the kitchen pantry and the doctor’s office replace stressful study sessions at desks and tables. The world is your workbook, and environmental print that is all around (signs, menus, etc.) is your worksheet.   

No Memorizing Sight Words

 Sight words and whole word memorization may be detrimental to students who are struggling with learning how to read.  Decoding words in the traditional letter-by-letter manner can have crippling results.  Children are expected to memorize some 300  sight words when in fact most of them can be sounded out.  Try sounding out ‘eight’ one letter at a time and pronounce the result.   Now try explaining how that garbled sound equals ‘eight.’   The default solution is to make it a sight word.   But there is a better way!  With phonograms, the confusion, frustration and failure can be remedied, and your children will understand the WHY!  

Answer the How and Why

Where is the a in eight?  Where is the e in amphibian?  Where is the f in elephant?  How do I explain why we spell cat with a c and kitten with a k?   Both start with the same sound.  How do I explain why duck ends in ck and lark ends in k?  

You may think that English is a crazy language and don't know how to answer those questions.  But English is logical and sensible, and when you learn the reading code, you can easily explain it to your children and students.