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Raising Robust Readers Reading Course

Are you the parent of a child with Down syndrome who dreams of the day your child will go beyond sight words to read independently? Are you a teacher who has resorted to sight words because phonics just didn’t work? Are you someone who is curious about what researchers have to say regarding explicit phonics instruction for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities? Then this is the book for you.

The Raising Robust Readers Program

Based on the Science of Reading

Step-by-step, researched-based, child-friendly instruction gently guides the learner through the logic and predictability of our English language. Teaching resources and downloadable materials including songs, games and fun-filled activities are included in our online reading program.   English is logical, sensible, predictable and easy to decode.  Now you can teach it that way.

Online Course Materials

Online Course with 18 step-by-step modules

Our Online Reading Course is Easy for Parents to Teach to Children

Easy for parents to learn and teach

Raising Robust Readers Uses the Ortho - Gillingham Approach

Uses the research-based, multi-sensory
Orton-Gillingham Approach

Each module includes:

  • Videos to guide you through the online course
  • Spelling Clues
  • Downloadable Worksheets
  • Fun-filled activities
  • Optional Train the Brain eReaders

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Take a look at the Program MODULES

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All programs include:

  •  18 step-by-step modules
  • Instruction in phonological and phonemic awareness
  • Systematic, explicit guidance in phonics and phonograms instruction
  • Easy-to-learn child-friendly terminology
  • Multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham-based teaching strategies
  • Songs, gestures, and animated videos
  • All 72 phonograms
  • Six syllable patterns taught through animated videos
  • Word division
  • Reading and spelling clues
  • Strategies to decode and read "sight words"
  • Methods to improve fluency, vocabulary and critical thinking skills
  • Downloadable teaching materials
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"Your program has left no stone unturned! I am amazed how yours is the first program in all my years as a homeschooling parent and furthermore as an elementary teacher, that truly dispels the myth of understanding syllables and how to attack them in attempting to read and decode words. I think that there are so many students whose literacy issues could be healed if only they had your program."

Stacy C.
Elementary Teacher and Homeschooling Mom


All programs contain materials suitable for babies and beyond. 

ESSENTIALS

$259

  • Online Videos
  • Step-by-Step instruction on teaching phonograms
  • Fun-Filled instruction in the 6 syllable patterns.
  • Downloadable Worksheets. Teaching  Materials and Games

PLUS

$469

  • Everything included in the Essentials Program 
  • PLUS - Hard Copy Book: The 72 Phonogram
    FUN-O-Guide
  • ABCs of The Sounds We Read Interactive EPUB Readers
  • Train the Brain decodable eReaders
  • Spelling and Writing Your Way Through The Code PDF Book

PREMIUM

$799

  • Everything included in the Essentials Program 
  • PLUS - Hard Copy Book:
    The 72 Phonogram
    Fun-O-Guide
  • ABCs of the Sounds We Read Interactive EPUB Readers
  • Train the Brain decodable eReaders
  • Spelling and Writing Your Way Through The Code PDF Book
  • Personal Consultation
  • 'Assessing My Child's Phonics Knowledge' session
  • Where Do I Start Placement
Raising Robust Readers Uses the Ortho - Gillingham Approach

Individual Products -These at-your-fingertips hard copy and downloadable books are included in the Plus and Premium online course.

FUN-O Guide Activity Book

A child-focused, family-centered guide for teaching phonograms.

$89.00

The on-the-go, wherever-you-go FUN-O-Guide Activity Book is an at-your-fingertips resource to teach the reading code.  While The ABCs of the Sounds We Read introduces the 72 phonograms, the FUN-O-Guide helps parents teach Wordy’s 72 phonograms through a wide variety of fun-filled activities.  The front of each of the 72 phonogram pages in this spiraled, glossy activity book presents the phonogram, the illustration, and jingle.  The back of each page is loaded with teaching strategies and family fun activities to help you teach not only the 72 phonograms; but the various components of literacy.

Originally the flagship product in our program, the FUN-O-Guide is a popular product many parents and teachers choose for the added convenience and portability.  It is included in the Plus and Premium Programs.


The ABCs of the Sounds We Read Interactive EPUB3 Readers

Going Beyond the Alphabet to Discover the Reading Code 

Tap and hear the songs and sounds of the 72 phonograms. Download and interact with them on your smartphone or tablet.  Download and read them on your tablet. (Requires ePUB-reader EPUB 3.1)   Consonant, Vowel, Vowel Buddy, Bossy R, Consonant Partner and Vowel Partner Power Heroes will help your children learn their sounds on the go, wherever you go.  The colorful pictures and songs encourage much discussion to stimulate visual, language, comprehension and critical thinking skills even at very young ages.  Once you know the phonograms–a simple extension of the 26 letters of the alphabet–you can say them, show them, and teach them.

Available in the Plus and Premium Programs only.


Follow the Road Through the Code with
“Train the Brain eReaders


$79.00

Raising Robust Readers supports direct instruction of phonics by using “Train the Brain” ebooks that contain only sounds and words that have been learned. Phonograms are introduced and added to each decodable "Train the Brain" reader in a systematic sequence. Each phonogram is presented in a story and used multiple times for sound and pattern recognition. As children learn to read more phonograms, the readers become more sophisticated.

The Raising Robust Readers sequence of introducing and blending sounds is a studied departure from the traditional approach. It is based on proven methods, strategies and experience and designed to build on small steps that produce success.






Writing and Spelling

 Your Way Through The Code

The Building Blocks for English Words

$59.00

Good readers aren't always good spellers  

Writing Your Way Through the Code is the writing complement to the Road Through the Reading Code. In addition to spelling lists, this 100+ page book, is also a compilation of simple guidelines that explain WHY words are spelled the way they are.  Now, instead of just writing words multiple times in the hopes of memorizing them, students are given the insight to understand HOW to spell them.






Phonogram Sound Dictionary and Spelling Clues

The Building Blocks for English Words

$29.00

Good readers aren't always good spellers  

How can I look up a word in a dictionary if I don't know how to spell it?  Try looking it up by sounds! Discover spelling patterns and “clues to choose” how to spell words with Wordy's Sound Dictionary and Spelling Clues.

Refer to Wordy’s Phonogram Sound Dictionary and Spelling Clues as you introduce sounds for blending and spelling.   Check each phonogram to discover if there are “Clues to Choose” which sounds to use or letter patterns associated with it.

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