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Phonics Based Reading For All Ages!

Product Information

The Reading program is designed to teach reading to students aged six to sixty six and more.  The program's activities focus on developing basic reading and comprehension skills.  Since English has 44 sounds, 26 letters, and 250 combinations, none of this is simple or easy for anyone. Interestingly, reading skills can be developed effectively with a broad range of individual abilities, unlike mathematics, which some people just cannot understand well. The key to your making Reading work for you and/or your family is the effective and appropriate use of practice. If you emphasize repetitions, and more repetitions, as this program provides for, you will succeed under most circumstances.

Only 60% of US adults read functionally despite the enormous importance of reading in all of our lives. So be patient with yourself and/or your family members in this challenging learning process. The phonics approach has proven itself as the most effective way to make reading accessible to virtually everyone. Let the program help you and/or yours learn and practice until the reading skills become automatic for the new reader. Although the process is difficult, almost nothing is as wonderful as to experience personally or second hand the delight of a new reader who learns how to read effectively.  

Reading provides students with an easy-to-use, step-by-step method of acquiring reading and comprehension skills. As these skills build, the student's ability and confidence grow.

Skills Learned

• Phonological awareness: the awareness of the sounds in the language and the ability to hear them.
• Sound symbol correspondence, termed decoding skills: connecting sounds to letters and letter combinations.
• Vocabulary development
• Comprehension of all the meaning associated with these skills.
• Fluency: making all of these skills automatic for you and/or your family members.
• Other activities help develop word attack skills in the context of brief stories. Timed activities have been included to increase and measure your growing reading abilities and pictures are used to facilitate comprehension.

Subjects Covered

Instructions are provided through out the program with voice prompts. This simplifies the learning process for nonreaders and also promotes listening skills and the ability to follow directions. Both of these are important factors in learning to read and making that process work for you and/or your family members!

Chapter 1: Setting Up

• Starting up Reading

Chapter 2: Using the Reading Program

• Choosing A Level
• Selecting Learning Activities
• Learning Activity Descriptions
• Level 1 Learning Activities
• Level 2 Learning Activities
• Level 3 Learning Activities
• Alpha Series Activities

Chapter 3: Creating A Bar Graph Report

• Creating a Bar Graph Report
• Troubleshooting

Educational Feature

• The computer has a pleasant voice and infinite patience. It gives every student the attention and support they need.
• Students can work on their own without anyone looking over their shoulder.
• Throughout each activity the instructions can be played again; therefore, students don't have to worry if they miss something or don't understand right away.
• Students can change the activity, switch levels or exit the program at any time. This control over the program helps empower and motivate the student.
• The report option allows students, as well as parents or teachers, to view and monitor progress. This encourages self-monitoring, an important learning skill.

Product Features

• Instructions Given By Voice:  Reading not required after product is installed.
• Easy Start: With short vowels and simple words. Option to start at a higher level.
• Hundreds of Exercises:  Contains over 2,000 vocabulary words.
• Automatically Progresses:  At the student's own pace, to more advanced materials in three different skill levels.
• Provides Extra Practice:  Program automatically branches off to provide extra practice on difficult areas as needed by the student.
• Provides Positive Feedback:  Displays student's progress with bar charts which can be printed.

System Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
• Pentium processor
• 16MB available RAM
• 15MB available hard drive space
• Monitor set-up: 800x600, 16-bit (thousands of colors)
• CD-ROM Drive