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Why This Reading Program?
We follow the approach outlined by cognitive research in the Science of Reading in developing a foundation in reading skills that will serve the student throughout their academic career.
Family Support and Engagement
As the parent, you see the lessons your child is engaged with, you monitor their progress, determine their pace and be a part of their learn to read experience.
Leverage the Reading Coach
The Reading Coach is your teaching partner who provides positive validation to your child, measures progress and provides recommended best practices to help your child become a Super Reader.
Helping a student Startup Reading is a team effort:
The student manager is the parent or person who will arrange for the student to watch and monitor the student’s engagement with the lessons and the associated workbook pages. A typical at-home reading session is expected to be 30 minutes and will include a warm up exercise, a reading lesson and an exercise in the workbook. Typically a student will complete two to four reading sessions in a week.
The role of the reading coach is to conduct the follow up, online meeting with the student, review their understanding for each of the reading skills in a lesson, record progress since the last coaching session, and recognize the student’s efforts and progress in building a foundation in reading skills.
1. The Reading Skills Assessment
The Assessment is used to determine the optimum starting point for the child. There is a broad range of reading challenges among students regardless of the age or current grade. We have intentionally refrained from any references to the workbook lessons being classified by grade level or age. Our assessments are defined by reading skill level.
2. Establishing the Level of Engagement and Pace for Your Child
Classrooms for young students are full of distractions. These distractions tend to cause a student to lose their focus while learning, to miss the concepts and strategies in learning how to read words and build a vocabulary to facilitate comprehension.
You, as the parent, will determine the number of video lessons your child can engage in per week.
We have noticed that a child has a better retention of a lesson if they use a headset while watching the video lesson and following the content in their workbook. A parent can be in the room without creating a distraction in their child’s engagement in the lesson.
3. The Role of the Reading Coach
A key component is the role of the Reading Coach. The Reading Coach is the person who interacts with your child, monitors engagement, explains the concepts and strategies that may not be completely clear to your child, and checks notations in the workbook. The reading coach will also provide positive feedback and encouragement to your child on their progress. There is a complete profile on the role of the reading coach on our website page heading: Reading Coach
A reading coach conducts the review via an online meeting. This session is conducted in 25-30 minute sessions with the provision that the student has watched the lesson video and completed the workbook exercises.
4. Periodic Progress Review
There is a high degree of satisfaction among parents when they observe their child understanding how to apply a reading strategy to read words, phrases and sentences. But measuring improvement is also an important component. Periodically, as a student moves from one area of reading skills to the next area, we will conduct a reading skill assessment on the material that has been taught in the current course. The results of this assessment will be communicated to you as the parent or to a designated family member.
Final Thoughts
Here is what parents have told us:
“The content is excellent, it builds confidence by teaching strategies that work and can be practiced at home or when in the car. My child now reads signs as we drive along, and I understand how to explain a strategy for words he is learning to read.”
“The simplicity of applying a reading strategy is key. I like being able to follow my child’s lessons and monitor her willingness to complete lessons at a pace I determine is appropriate.”
The next page provides several example video lessons for your review.
Schedule a Test Drive or Sign up for a Free, No Obligation Review by contacting us or sending an email to: info@learnToReadOnline.org
For more information on the Startup Reading program, please visit our website or email: info@learnToReadOnline.org
