Welcome to a new way to provide a reading curriculum to the children in your family.
This program provides an online Startup Reading curriculum with a series of workbooks and a video lesson for each page in the workbook.
You determine the schedule for your child to engage in a lesson on a daily basis, 2 to 5 times per week, or once per week.
The innovative lessons are designed to teach reading skills in 30 minute sessions. Your child can learn to their own pace, can stop and restart at any point and can revisit a previous lesson to refresh the prior reading skills.
One of the most overlooked aspects in conducting a reading program is the amount of reinforcement that is necessary. There is a pattern embedded in the lessons whereby a warm-up activity is periodically included in the lesson. The purpose of a warm-up activity is to reinforce either a foundation skill or a skill from the prior lesson. The lesson plan gives your child an opportunity to establish a pattern and attitude that they can become an independent reader.The warm-up allows you, the parent, an opportunity to confirm that your child has acquired a key skill for learning to read.
In the first workbook, Letter Names and Sounds, the warm-up for each session will review the letters of the alphabet. In books 2, 3 and 4, the warm-up will review the reading code. This factor of repeating specific reading skills is critical to the development of “muscle memory” type reading skills where a child can recall vowel sounds such as the long vowel i in kite or the short vowel i as in igloo.
As a parent supervising your child’s education, you will determine how to best address each of the following components.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Book 1, Letter Name and Sounds |
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| Book 1, pages 25-32 | The Imaginary Story, Letters K-R | https://vimeo.com/382841753 |
| Book 1, pages 33 | Circle the Letter (I through R) that is the Beginning Sound in the picture – Part 1 | https://vimeo.com/382841753 |
Book 2, Long Vowels |
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| Book 2, page 20 | Book 2 Pg 20, Be a Vowel Detective! | https://vimeo.com/405719450 |
| Book 2, page 21 | Book 2 Pg 21 Be a Vowel Detective, ride, wave, cape | https://vimeo.com/405724442 |
Book 5 Digraphs and Blends |
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| Book 5 page 34 | Be a Vowel Detective, whale, wheat, white, wheel, thumb, path. | https://vimeo.com/397898956 |
| Book 5, Pg 40-Part 1 | Intro and vocabulary for the Whale Shark Story, part 1 of 4 | https://vimeo.com/398149460 |
| Book 5 page 51 | Say, listen and circle super challenge words | https://vimeo.com/433472136 |
